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
Chief Marketer--Welcome to Broker Roundtable, where each week we ask list brokers to give their opinions on issues that matter to the marketing community. This week's question: What impact will the USPS'... View More
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The Federal Register advance notice of federal rule making, highlighted in an earlier communication from Susan LaChance, USPS® Vice President Consumer & Industry Affairs, would revise service standards,... View More
The Federal Register has published our proposed rule modifying the time for filing claims for domestic Express Mail® refunds from 90 days to 30 days after the date of mailing and changing the Express... View More
WASHINGTON - The Postal Service today marked National Energy Awareness Month as postal officials highlighted energy savings and cost avoidance - credited in large part to postal employees' actions - and... View More
The Ballantine Corporation--We've identified 4 ways to make your direct mail campaigns more environmentally friendly and we've packaged them into this free 5-page PDF. Get the PDF!... View More
Post&Parcel--Deutsche Post has had its digital postal mail service certified by German standards agency TÜV NORD. The verification provides the E-Postbrief platform with a "Trusted Site Privacy"... View More
Collins Ink Corporation has terminated the supply agreement with Kodak (formerly Scitex) that has been in place between the two companies for the past 10 years. Effective immediately, customers with high-speed... View More
MultiChannel Merchant--The prospect of the U.S. Postal Service moving to five-day delivery is looking more like a reality, now that President Obama has endorsed it and a House panel has approved legislation... View More
Post&Parcel--US digital mailbox provider Zumbox has signed up two new utilities to switch their transactional mail to the digital channel. Georgia-based Cobb Electric Membership Corporation and Gas... View More