PrintWeek: The Printing Industries of America (PIA) this week formally complained to the US Postal Service (USPS) about a new Direct Mail Hub on the USPS web site that seems to direct businesses to only... View More

The Federal Register published two of our notices on the proposed Mailing Services price change. On October 18, we filed notices of a Market Dominant Price Adjustment for both domestic and international... View More

WASHINGTON - The Postal Service will release its FY 2011 financial results on Nov. 15 during an open session meeting of the Board of Governors. Following the meeting, Chief Financial Officer Joe Corbett... View More

Multichannel Merchant--The U.S. Postal Service's 2.1% average rate increase, announced Tuesday, won't stop merchants from mailing catalogs next year. But some mailers say they will look at other options... View More

e-Commerce Bytes--The USPS filed price changes with the Postal Regulatory Commission on Tuesday and announced that the cost of mailing a letter would rise by a penny beginning January 22, 2012. Letters... View More

Intelisent--True stories coming in to me regarding the extraordinary shortages of USPS-required trays and pallets: These are from the Midwest area - "issues with the post office being out of trays? When... View More

Courier, Express, and Postal Observer--In a video entitled, "Is the Postal Service Worth Saving?" WSJ Marketplace Editor Dennis Berman and Mean Street host Evan Newmark suggest that the only reason Congress... View More

Presort.com--Newspapers and magazines in the United States have their postage costs subsidised by the US Postal Service to the tune of $642m a year, according to an important new report. The long-awaited... View More

You are receiving this message as information regarding an issue between the PostalOne! system and Full-Service processing that prevented customers from receiving Full-Service ACS records from October... View More

Multichannel Merchant--By now, merchants have no doubt locked in their printing and distribution schedules for the Christmas Holiday season. But no doubt there are many merchants, preoccupied with creative,... View More

Dead Tree Edition--At the end of a lengthy analysis of the prospects for postal legislation yesterday, long-time postal union leader William Burrus made a statement that could signal a change in strategy... View More

Post&Parcel--Newspapers and magazines in the United States have their postage costs subsidised by the US Postal Service to the tune of $642m a year, according to an important new report. The long-awaited... View More

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In anticipation of a busy holiday shipping season, the United States Postal Service is announcing recommended holiday mailing dates and a discounted,... View More

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 17, 2011) - The Trust for the National Mall announced today that it has named Robert Pincus, Vice Chairman, EagleBank and Eagle Bancorp, and James Jaska, President, Americas and... View More

Intelisent--Mailers across the country are reporting major difficulties with access to USPS MTE Mailer Transport Equipment, which are the orange USPS postal pallets, the trays, and sacks required in order... View More

Multichannel Merchant--"Want to be a Stand-out Marketer? Get ahead with DMA Education" is the message on the cover of the Direct Marketing Association's DMA Education mailing. It's too bad it didn't give... View More

There will be a PostalOne! outage during the scheduled maintenance window Sunday, October 16, 2011, 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. CDT. PostalOne! application, including MAIL.XML web services, will be unavailable for... View More

Dead Tree Edition: Pressure to jack up postal rates for magazines and newspaper was heightened today with the release of a long-awaited study of Periodicals class costs. Publishers have been hoping for... View More

The Washington Post--Transferring tens of billions of dollars in federal worker retirement accounts back to the U.S. Postal Service would not address its long-term debt problems and would force unfunded... View More

Post&Parcel--US data quality specialists Melissa Data has launched a new addition to its address management services - allowing the verification of addresses that are not on the US Postal Service database.... View More