Feb. 24 2013
Save the Post Office--Last week, the Postal Service released a survey it had commissioned with IPSOS, a Paris-based market-research company, showing that 80 percent of Americans supported the Postal Service's... View More
Feb. 24 2013
USPS News Link--Doing business with USPS has become an even better deal thanks to new promotions targeting direct mailers. With the Direct Mail Mobile Coupon/Click-to-Call promotion, business customers... View More
Feb. 19 2013
Salon--How bad have things gotten for America's national mail delivery system? The US Postal Service lost $1.3 billion last quarter, and this was regarded as good news. The venerable agency has been saddled... View More
Feb. 19 2013
Postal News Blog--(February 19, 2013) Earlier today, the three-member arbitration panel established to determine the terms of the 2011 National Agreement between the National Postal Mail Handlers Union... View More
Feb. 19 2013
WASHINGTON - Neither snow, nor rain nor gloom of night has taken on a different meaning at the U.S. Postal Service with plans to launch a new product line of apparel and accessories under the brand name,... View More
Feb. 12 2013
Federal Times--The U.S. Postal Service's plan to end Saturday mail delivery this summer could erase the equivalent of some 35,000 full-time jobs, according to an internal agency document obtained by Federal... View More
Feb. 12 2013
Media Daily News--The Newspaper Association of America is showing its legal teeth with a lawsuit filed against the Postal Regulatory Commission on behalf of its members, disputing the legality of a deal... View More
Feb. 12 2013
Huffington Post--You are probably hearing that the Post Office is "in crisis" and is cutting back Saturday delivery, laying people off, closing offices, etc. Like so many other "crises" imposed on us lately,... View More
Feb. 12 2013
Postal News Blog--FedEx was the U.S. Postal Service's largest contractor in fiscal year 2012 in a list of the agency's Top 150 suppliers compiled and released today by Husch Blackwell's Postal Service... View More
Feb. 11 2013
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
Feb. 8 2013
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
Feb. 6 2013
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
Feb. 6 2013
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
Feb. 6 2013
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
Feb. 6 2013
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
Feb. 6 2013
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
Feb. 5 2013
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
Feb. 4 2013
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
Feb. 4 2013
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
Feb. 4 2013
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

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