Knowledge@Wharton--The United States Postal Service (USPS) is in dire financial straits -- and the solution will involve painful restructuring. The reason: Like many large, once successful organizations,... View More

Courier, Express, and Postal Observer: The Postal Service's customer interface systems (i.e. FAST, IMB, Postal One, Click n Ship, label printing, Postage purchase, etc.) were out as much as twelve hours... View More

Each year the Print, Services and Distribution Association (PSDA) hosts a contest where printers can enter unique designs and solutions to be judged by a team of industry specialists. This year The Flesh... View More

Post&Parcel--US postal regulators have noted "substantial" opposition to a $107m mailing contract proposed between the US Postal Service and one of its largest direct mail customers. The terms of the... View More

intelisent--Highlighting two items from this article. The first is about PostalOne downtime. No brainer. The second item, on "Partners", really highlights some of the trouble with the USPS and how they... View More

WhatTheyThink.com--The second Postal Vision conference drew 150 attendees to Washington DC's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel. This was two Metro stops from the real decision makers, i.e., Congress and the United... View More

intelisent--Attention PostalOne!® Users: The network issue impacting external access to several USPS applications has been RESOLVED. Access to BCG, FAST, and PostalOne was restored and verified at... View More

Post&Parcel--The cash-strapped US Postal Service struggled to improve its environmental impacts last year, as facility energy use rose 5% and fuel use increased more than 2%. A growth in the number... View More

PostalOne!® Release 31.0.1: A patch to repair known issues in PostalOne! ® Release 31.0.1 will be deployed during the scheduled maintenance window from 4 a.m. through 8 a.m. CDT on Sunday, June... View More

Please join the Association for Postal Commerce for a free webinar on Tuesday, July 17 at 1:00 Eastern as Jessica Dauer Lowrance, Executive Vice President, PostCom explores a "deep dive" into S 1789 and... View More

Pitney Bowes Management Services, Inc. (PBMS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), announced today that it was awarded a Partner Innovation Award during the 2012 EMC World conference.... View More

eCommerceBytes--The head of the regulatory body that oversees the U.S. Postal Service outlined a broad vision for putting the money-losing agency on a path to long-term sustainability by exploring a series... View More

Yahoo! Finance--Today at the Sustainable Brands Conference, Sprint Nextel [NYSE:S], named No. 3 on Newsweek's 2011 Green Rankings, unveiled how it will help change the face of customer invoicing and direct... View More

Multichannel Merchant--Direct mail response rates may have dropped siginificantly in the past decade, but mail campaigns still are more effective than digital channels, according to the Direct Marketing... View More

Post&Parcel--The US Postal Service is going into digital services - but will not be developing its own digital postal mailbox, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe revealed yesterday. Giving the keynote... View More

Posted on the PRC website: Amended Data Collection Report for Reply Rides Free: (1) http://www.prc.gov/Docs/82/82932/Amended%20DataCollRpt.pdf; (2) http://www.prc.gov/Docs/82/82932/Amended%20USPS%20RRF%20Data%20Rpt.xls ... View More

Federal Times--It looks like the end of the road for a long-lived inquiry into possible misappropriation of funds by a (now former) Postal Regulatory Commission employee. In a new activity report covering... View More

Courier, Express & Postal Observer--Save the Post Office made an important point in its analysis of the financial impact of the PostPlan, the Postal Service assumed that cutting hours will not impact... View More

The Postal Service is moving ahead with the rationalization of its network. The implementation of network rationalization will be executed by modifying service standards in two phases. The first phase... View More

WASHINGTON - In response to customer requests, the U.S. Postal Service is announcing the launch of the Picture Permit Imprint Indicia program for commercial mailers. The Picture Permit Imprint Indicia... View More