Dead Tree Edition--The U.S. Postal Service's plans to eliminate Saturday delivery and to lower its delivery standards could face a significant legal obstacle, according to the Postal Regulatory Commission.... View More
The Move Update standard is a means of reducing the number of mailpieces in a commercial mailing that require forwarding, returning, or treating as waste by periodically matching a mailer's address records... View More
PostNL, the national postal operator for The Netherlands, has selected ID Mail Systems and a special version of its flagship product, the Dispatcher MX, for a new mail coding, printing and sorting application.... View More
Window Book Postal Concierge--As reported in an earlier eTip, the United States Postal Service® (USPS®) is offering a "Holiday Mobile Shopping Promotion" (Mobile Shopping Promotion), scheduled... View More
Washington Post--WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service, on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can't afford to pay, is sounding a new cautionary note that having squeezed out... View More
PostalOne!® Release 32.0.0 will deploy on Sunday October 14, 2012. Release 32.0.0 will require an extended maintenance window with an outage from 8 p.m. Saturday, October 13, 2012, through 9 a.m. CDT... View More
Post&Parcel--US Postal Service retail technology partner IGI has called on courts in Colorado to dismiss a class action suit brought by contracted postal counter operators, challenging restrictions... View More
Dead Tree Edition--Perhaps we can finally say goodbye to those simplistic "Go green, go paperless" promotional campaigns. There's nothing particularly green about the massive data centers that store the... View More
Postal News Blog--WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - Mobile barcodes and direct mail will drive retail sales this holiday season, so marketers looking to boost revenue while saving money... View More
Express Association of America: PostCom has joined with 27 other business associations to support S. 3597, introduced September 20 by Senators John Thune and Ron Wyden to raise the de minimis value, the... View More
Window Book Postal Concierge--The United States Postal Service® (USPS®) is replacing the Confirmation Services barcode with the Intelligent Mail® Package Barcode (IM®pb) for tracking of... View More
New York Times--WASHINGTON - Customers might complain about the flood of unsolicited credit card applications, supermarket fliers and shopping catalogs in their mail, but the Postal Service is hoping to... View More
Postal News Blog-ATLANTA , Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - In his annual state of the business address to the mailing industry, Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe today emphasized that the... View More
Courier, Express & Postal Observer--In its 1st quarter 2013 earnings report FedEx reported that it handled over 108 million FedEx SmartPost parcels delivered by the Postal Service. FedEx SmartPost volume... View More
Post&Parcel--The US Postal Service could close more than 40% of its delivery units and still meet the needs of its customers, according to analysis from its Inspector General. A study issued by the... View More
Media Bistro--It looks like a 10-year partnership will soon be coming to an end as we've received confirmation that the U.S. Postal Service will not be renewing its contract with Campbell-Ewald once it... View More
The effective date for the Folded Self-Mailers (FSM) revised standards is drawing near-January 5, 2013. The final rule Federal Register was published on December 1, 2011. Additional FSM reference materials... View More
As a reminder, registration for the Holiday Mobile Shopping Promotion opens tomorrow, September 15, 2012. Participants from the Mobile Commerce and Personalization Promotion who are interested in participating... View More
Window Book Postal Concierge--The United States Postal Service® (USPS)® is offering new mail preparation options for pallets, trays and sacks of First-Class and Standard Mail. These new mail preparation... View More