DMM Advisory: 2011 Shipping Services Prices and Incentive Program Proposals Filed at PRC. Today we submitted two filings to the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), one for price changes for our competitive... View More

WASHINGTON - The simpler way to ship - with Priority Mail Flat Rate Boxes from the U.S. Postal Service - is set to extend its popularity with consumers and shippers in the new year when new prices take... View More

WASHINGTON - Volume discounts and free additional weight are included in proposed mailing standards changes the U.S. Postal Service filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) today. These two incentives... View More

WASHINGTON - The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service will meet in open session Nov.12 at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW. The public is welcome to observe the meeting beginning... View More

The threat of financial doomsday scenarios at the US Postal Service, coupled with advancements that make customer communications possible in an instant, are forcing marketers to prepare for a day... View More

Big Fat Marketing Blog--What are we to make of Jack Potter's decision to retire as U.S. Postmaster General on Dec. 3? The U.S. Postal Service has been in the news quite a bit in recent years, notably for... View More

Santa Maria Times--Mail-in ballots now account for more than 40 percent of voters statewide and more than 54 percent on the Central Coast, and the numbers are rising... That kind of shift toward the more... View More

Direct Marketing News reports, "A retail client of ours just finished analyzing marketing performance of direct mail, e-mail and in-store promotions. Direct mail is the best performer: up 150% vs. last... View More

"The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service has fallen behind in generating revenue from new applications of information technology, such as switching to a FedEx-like tracking system, selling USPS data to mailers... View More

Postcom.org reports that the PRC has just issued an information request asking the USPS to provide additional information in regards to its request for temporary waivers to periodic reporting of service... View More

PostalOne! Release 25.0 and FAST Release 15.0 will deploy to production Sunday, November 7, 2010. PostalOne! production (including FAST OPS web services) will be unavailable from 9 p.m. (CDT) Saturday,... View More

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service has temporarily suspended acceptance of inbound international mail originating in Yemen effective October 30, 2010. This service suspension has been issued in response... View More

WASHINGTON - The international postal sector is the first services industry worldwide to commit to reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to the International Post Corporation (IPC). The... View More

Process and Control Today has noted that "The new Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) has all but replaced the old POSTNET and PLANET barcodes used in United States Postal Service (USPS) automation. FASTechnology... View More

Washington Post--Reaching the minimum retirement age - and not declining mail volume, sinking profits or an uncooperative Congress - triggered John E. "Jack" Potter's retirement as postmaster general after... View More

StructuralGraphics.com--The USPS is appealing to the regulatory commission to allow for another postal rate increase. Though the rate increase was originally rejected, the USPS argues it needs the increase... View More

Presort.com--Came across this posting the other day on DMNews.com entitled: "How to save the US Postal Service" And it got me to thinking - always a dangerous proposition I assure you. But I got to thinking... View More

WASHINGTON - After nearly 10 years as U.S. Postmaster General and CEO of the U.S. Postal Service, John E. Potter today announced that he will retire on Dec. 3, after 32 years of service. The Governors... View More

TheDirectMailman.com--Is it any surprise that that the U.S. Post Office is feeling the pressure just like the rest of us? On the heels of the recent failure of a requested postage rate increase, the USPS... View More

Dead Tree Edition--The U.S. Postal Service's decision, announced today, to appeal the Postal Regulatory Commission's exigency-rate ruling could backfire, and yet in a way the Postal Service can't lose.... View More