From USPS News Link: A new national sales program being launched this month by USPS will focus on small businesses - one of the Postal Service's fastest growing customer markets. The Postal Service's Inside... View More
Dead Tree Edition--Misunderstandings abound regarding the U.S. Postal Service's proposal to end Saturday delivery of all mail except parcels later this year. Here some of the most common myths... View More
Post&Parcel--US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has denied that abandoning Saturday deliveries for regular mail in the United States will lead to "massive layoffs". Addressing employees on Wednesday... View More
Federal News Radio--The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) is looking for an organization that can help it develop a report on the impact of discontinuing Saturday mail delivery service. The request for... View More
Washington Post--The U.S. Postal Service announced on Wednesday that it would close more than 50 mail-processing centers this year, accelerating a consolidation plan that the agency developed to trim more... View More
eCommerce Bytes--Federal regulators on Thursday issued their annual compliance determination (ACD) evaluating the operations of the U.S. Postal Service in fiscal 2012, chiding the cash-strapped agency... View More
The "Network Rationalization Update" webinar presented on Thursday, March 28, by Dave Williams (USPS Vice President, Network Operations) is now available on the MTAC page of the RIBBS website (ribbs.usps.gov).... View More
Postal News Blog--"The APWU is outraged by USPS plans to accelerate the closure of 71 mail processing plants that were originally slated for possible consolidation in 2014," said APWU President Cliff Guffey.... View More
Save the Post Office--Two things happened yesterday that may have put the nail in the coffin on the Postmaster General's plan to end Saturday delivery. First, Congress passed an appropriations bill that... View More
The Hill--The Senate approved an amendment to the budget that would require political committees and campaigns to pay the full mailing price. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) introduced the amendment, which passed... View More
PostalOne!® Release 34.0.0 Deployment - will require an extended maintenance window to complete all software updates. There will be a PostalOne! ® outage from 12 midnight through 9 a.m. CT, Sunday,... View More
Direct Marketing News--One element of USPS Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe's keynote at the 2013 National Postal Forum (NPF) was focused on incorporating personalization into direct mail pieces. But... View More
Post&Parcel--Legal questions remain over the US Postal Service's intent to abandon Saturday delivery for regular letters from 5th August, with a measure to specifically allow the move failing to make... View More
STAMFORD, Conn., March 18, 2013 - Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) was recently named a 2012 Outstanding Partner of the Year for Innovation and Technology by Aflac, the number one provider of guaranteed-renewable... View More
Durham, N.C., March 18, 2013 - Bell and Howell, a leading provider of solutions and services for paper-based and digital messaging, is pleased to once again be exhibiting at the National Postal Forum (NPF),... View More
Save the Post Office--The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) has just published a report about a proposal to create a "public-private hybrid" postal system. The full title is worth noting:... View More
The Hill--Two Democrats on Capitol Hill are blasting the U.S. Postal Service for pressing ahead with a plan to limit Saturday delivery without turning over figures on how much their plan would save. Sen.... View More
Editor's Corner @ Fierce Government--Whether or not the Postal Service has autonomous authority to switch to 5-day letter carrying services (6 days for packages) appears to rest for the moment on ambiguous... View More
March 13, 2013, Durham, N.C. - Bell and Howell, a leading provider of solutions and services for paper-based and digital messaging, and TEC Mailing Solutions, the industry's premier Software as a Service... View More
Post&Parcel--The world's top postal operators are struggling to make any material value out of digital mail, according to a new Accenture study out today. The report entitled "Achieving High Performance... View More