Pushing the Envelope: "Fuel For Thought" The Postal Service is a leader among federal agencies in sustainability efforts. In 2009, it joined with 20 international postal operators to commit to a 20 percent... View More

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service ended the first three months of its 2013 fiscal year (Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2012) with a net loss of $1.3 billion. Continued growth in Shipping and Package revenue (+4.7%)... View More

We announced standards limiting automation discounts for Periodicals letters and flats to Intelligent Mail® barcodes only in the June 6, 2012, final rule correction Federal Register notice. That final... View More

Multichannel Merchant--Direct-to-customer merchants who mail catalogs told Multichannel Merchant they are fine with the United States Postal Service's 5-day delivery plan, which is scheduled to go into... View More

Congressman Stephen F. Lynch, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census, released the following statement in response to the United State Postal Service's... View More

Postal News Blog--Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe lacks the constitutional and statutory authority to unilaterally implement his announced plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery to tens of millions... View More

NPR News--The U.S. Postal Service, which has been preparing the public for this news for a couple years now, will announce this morning that it plans to halt Saturday delivery of first-class mail this... View More

WASHINGTON - The Postal Service ranks as the fourth most trusted company - a two-point increase from 2011 and its highest company ranking since the survey's inception by the premier privacy trust study... View More

Washington Post--Hallmark really wants you to be able to open that birthday card on a Saturday. But Saturday mail delivery costs the U.S. Postal Service $2.7 billion a year, and it's a burden the cash-strapped... View More

Postal Explorer® (pe.usps.com) is your source for up-to-date mailing standards. The Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) is fully searchable on Postal Explorer and features fly-out menus, cross-reference... View More

Plockmatic International AB, one of the world's leading developers and manufacturers of document finishing technology, has acquired Morgana Systems Ltd. of the UK. The acquisition dramatically expands... View More

Post&Parcel--The US Postal Service might be able to win more federal shipping business by separating out some of its service costs as surcharges, then offering a lower basic rate. That's the view of... View More

Dead Tree Edition--The Flats Sequencing System is costing the U.S. Postal Service more than it is saving, information submitted by USPS this week indicates. USPS's response to a question from the Postal... View More

Multichannel Merchant--Citing the fact that the United States Postal Service "cannot wait indefinitely for legislation," the USPS Board of Governors said last week that it has directed management to accelerate... View More

Dead Tree Edition--I consistently find that the people in the industry who really care about environmental issues are the ones who buy paper or put ink on it. They're the only ones you'll hear talking... View More

Presort.com--Here's a point that gets lost in all the heated public debate surrounding the Postal Service's towering debt and what should be done to reduce it: Taxpayers don't support the Postal Service®;... View More

Postal Reporter News Blog--In his latest State of the Business video, PMG Pat Donahoe answers questions he has received from employees about important subjects affecting USPS. The PMG reports that most... View More

Effective January 27, 2013, there will be a change in how single-piece commercial residual First-Class Mail® letters are reported on PS Form 3600-FCM, Postage Statement - First-Class Mail. The pricing... View More

Postal News Blog--The US Postal Service, which often seems to have an obsession with "branding", has decided to abandon one of its best known and oldest brands: "Parcel Post" Parcel Post just celebrated... View More

New postage statements associated with the January 2013 price change are available on Postal Explorer®. The Postage Statement link is in the left column under *NEW* Jan. 27, 2013 Price Change Info.... View More