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
From the USPS co-chair: "The Five-Day Delivery website has been updated with information about the effect our five-day proposal would have on delivery times by product for single piece and commercial or... View More
As Intelisent notes, "Full Service requirements are both expensive and hard to handle. Managing the sequence numbers on the mailpieces is not all that difficult. However, Full Service also requires unique... View More
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service today announced its decision to appeal the Sept. 30 ruling of the Postal Regulatory Commission denying the Postal Service exigent price request. The Postal Service... View More
Postal News Blog--Maybe you already noticed. The Priority Mail Flat Rate Box campaign - perhaps better known for the "If it fits, it ships" commercials - is promoting another item in the flat-rate products... View More
UPS (NYSE:UPS) today announced adjusted diluted earnings per share of $0.93 for the third quarter of 2010, a 69% improvement over the prior-year period. Global revenue grew 9.3%, generating $1.5 billion... View More
From Windowbook.com, as posted on Presort.com--As we informed you in our June 3, 2010 e-Tip, the United States Postal Service® (USPS®) announced earlier this year that, beginning November 7, 2010,... View More
#1. It's more popular with the "younger generation" than you think. Research from ICOM's 2010 study of North American consumers' marketing communication channel preferences showed that the always coveted... View More
Postcom.org reports that, "The U.S. Postal Service has filed for a review before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia regarding the Postal Regulatory Commission decision in Docket No.... View More
By Lekan Oguntoyinbo, Deliver Magazine Digital technologies have tempted some marketers to take their business online. But a new type of marketing integration appears to be flipping the trend on its... View More
The following perspective by postal commentator Gene Del Polito for AmericaPost. The views expressed are solely the author's. Okay, the battle is now over between the U.S. Postal Service and its customers... View More
The Mailers' Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) elected Industry Leadership provides the Postal Service Leadership each calendar quarter with input referred to as the "Pulse of the Industry." Postal Service... View More