Courier, Express, and Postal Observer--The Postal Service has published its first quarterly report on the use of its newest product, Every Door Direct Mail. Most customers are new to the Postal Service... View More

Spring Global Mail has appointed Rudy van Rillaer as Vice President Global Operations, a management team position whose scope and responsibilities have been defined as a direct result of an extensive network... View More

Courier, Express, and Postal Observer--The Postal Service's network restructuring will add an extra day to most First Class Mail delivery standards. While it is theoretically possible for bulk First Class... View More

eCommerce Bytes--The U.S. Postal Service entered into a deal with eBay and China Post last year to help Chinese sellers send small packages to the U.S. in a much shorter period of time than regular international... View More

GoLocalProv--You may have heard that the US Postal Service is due to run out of money sometime in September. I've seen a fair number of articles moaning about how the advent of email and texting makes... View More

The USPS announces the withdrawal of the Proposed Rule, Revised: Changes to Move Update Standards, published in the Federal Register July 12, 2011. This Federal Register notice proposed the revision to... View More

At a recent Mailers Technical Advisory Council meeting, we announced that the revised proposed rule, Changes to Move Update Standards, published in the Federal Register on July 12, 2011, will be withdrawn... View More

Post&Parcel--Business technology and outsourcing company CSC has been awarded two contracts to manage mail transport equipment on behalf of the US Postal Service. The contracts are set to run for three... View More

Save the Post Office-- When Airmail was abolished in 1977, the Postal Service promised America, "All First-Class mail is going to fly." When Third-Class mail was changed to Single-Piece Standard in 1996... View More

Courier, Express, and Postal Observer--In a major effort to reduce costs to match projected revenue, the Postal Service has proposed eliminating overnight delivery of single-piece mail. The Postal Service... View More

This Sunday, Aug 28, 2011 PostalOne! will be unavailable due to system maintenance and deployment of a scheduled patch release (27.0.2). Please, be advised that the outage window is being expanded to begin... View More

The August 11, 2011, Postal Bulletin Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) article about the Reply Rides Free Incentive Program contains a URL for use by mail owners wishing to participate in the program. Since... View More

In November 2011 (Release 28) and January 2012 (Release 29), the Postal Service will release software for the PostalOne!® and Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST®) systems that include... View More

Join The Association for Postal Commerce for a webinar on Thursday, August 25th at 1:00 PM Eastern presented by Cheryl Chapman, chairman of the EMA Foundation Institute for Postal Studies as she discusses... View More

The Mailers Technical Advisory Committee has formed a new work group focusing on "Physical Location Defaults and Redirections Review." Currently maintaining and determining the correct drop ship location... View More

We're delighted and pleased to announce that we made this year's Inc 500-5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies, for the second year in a row. "Two years in a row is hard to do," explained CEO... View More

Postal Affairs Blog--This post has been recreated in its entirety from the Mailing and Fulfillment Service Association's top-notch publication, PostalPoints. It was written by industry expert and MFSA... View More

Courier, Express & Postal Observer--In the FY11 third quarter, the Postal Service reported growth in nearly all parcel and express products that equalled or exceeded industry growth rates. The growth... View More

The mail industry in the United States now appears to be "too fragile" for the US Postal Service to raise its postal rates by above-inflation amounts, US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said on Wednesday.... View More

Folio: It appears the United States Postal Service has had a change of heart. After issuing a request to the Postal Regulatory Commission in July to raise postal rates in January 2012 over 4 percent (considered... View More