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
Intelisent has quoted from one of the USPS' electronic documentation rules: "Contingency: In the event of a USPS system or telecommunications network failure preventing Participant from transmitting (as... View More
Dead Tree Edition--In an attempt to hold down next year's increase in postage rates, an alliance of mailers today challenged as "nonsensical" an informal ruling issued by a Postal Regulatory Commission... View More
Presort.com--NEW YORK, Oct. 11, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Consumers want more than a movie or videogame disc in their mailboxes. According to a recently released research study produced in cooperation with... View More
By David King, CEO, Fulcrum, DMNews.com, as posted on Presort.com--Relational databases - matching data by using common characteristics to better understand them - won the hearts and budgets of marketing... View More
DeliverMagazine.com--There comes a time in every business when the marketing campaigns that have worked reliably month after month begin to return disappointing results. You can't put your finger on what... View More
Office of the Inspector General--PostalOne!® is a web-based system designed to facilitate business mail processing and allows the Postal Service to electronically collaborate with business mail customers.... View More
PIWorld has reported that "IWCO Direct, a leading national provider of direct marketing solutions, demonstrated its commitment to creating value for direct mail customers in the area of postage optimization... View More
Business Wire reports that Pitney Bowes Inc. is hosting a series of U.S. Customer Summits at its mail services facilities from October 12 through December 14. The "Customer Appreciation and Mail Innovation... View More
The Postal Service has received additional questions on the flats deflection standards that went into effect Oct. 3. Here are the questions and answers: Have the changes been widely communicated? For... View More