The U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Postal Inspection Service and AARP join with government agencies, advocacy organizations and private sector groups nationwide to celebrate National Consumer Protection Week... View More
The US Postal Service will offer a 2% discount on direct mail postage from tomorrow, if it features mobile barcodes. The Direct Mail Mobile Coupon and Click-to-Call promotion runs until April 30, 2013,... View More
The US Postal Service will offer a 2% discount on direct mail postage from tomorrow, if it features mobile barcodes. The Direct Mail Mobile Coupon and Click-to-Call promotion runs until April 30, 2013,... View More
KUT News--An Austin company is expanding its concept of undoing the work of the United States Postal Service. Outbox picks up its customers' mail, scans it, and makes it available online. The company announced... View More
Intelisent--In a move that is not going to be very well received by industry, the merry go round in the Pricing position is changing again. Jeff Williamson, who has only been in the position since June... View More
Save the Post Office--Last week, the Postal Service released a survey it had commissioned with IPSOS, a Paris-based market-research company, showing that 80 percent of Americans supported the Postal Service's... View More
USPS News Link--Doing business with USPS has become an even better deal thanks to new promotions targeting direct mailers. With the Direct Mail Mobile Coupon/Click-to-Call promotion, business customers... View More
Promotions and Incentive Programs for First-Class Mail and Standard Mail Today the Federal Register published our Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) final rule that revises mailing standards to include new... View More
Postal News Blog--(February 19, 2013) Earlier today, the three-member arbitration panel established to determine the terms of the 2011 National Agreement between the National Postal Mail Handlers Union... View More
Salon--How bad have things gotten for America's national mail delivery system? The US Postal Service lost $1.3 billion last quarter, and this was regarded as good news. The venerable agency has been saddled... View More
WASHINGTON - Neither snow, nor rain nor gloom of night has taken on a different meaning at the U.S. Postal Service with plans to launch a new product line of apparel and accessories under the brand name,... View More
Postal News Blog--FedEx was the U.S. Postal Service's largest contractor in fiscal year 2012 in a list of the agency's Top 150 suppliers compiled and released today by Husch Blackwell's Postal Service... View More
Media Daily News--The Newspaper Association of America is showing its legal teeth with a lawsuit filed against the Postal Regulatory Commission on behalf of its members, disputing the legality of a deal... View More
Federal Times--The U.S. Postal Service's plan to end Saturday mail delivery this summer could erase the equivalent of some 35,000 full-time jobs, according to an internal agency document obtained by Federal... View More
Huffington Post--You are probably hearing that the Post Office is "in crisis" and is cutting back Saturday delivery, laying people off, closing offices, etc. Like so many other "crises" imposed on us lately,... View More
Pushing the Envelope: "Fuel For Thought" The Postal Service is a leader among federal agencies in sustainability efforts. In 2009, it joined with 20 international postal operators to commit to a 20 percent... View More
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service ended the first three months of its 2013 fiscal year (Oct. 1 - Dec. 31, 2012) with a net loss of $1.3 billion. Continued growth in Shipping and Package revenue (+4.7%)... View More
Multichannel Merchant--Direct-to-customer merchants who mail catalogs told Multichannel Merchant they are fine with the United States Postal Service's 5-day delivery plan, which is scheduled to go into... View More
NPR News--The U.S. Postal Service, which has been preparing the public for this news for a couple years now, will announce this morning that it plans to halt Saturday delivery of first-class mail this... View More
We announced standards limiting automation discounts for Periodicals letters and flats to Intelligent Mail® barcodes only in the June 6, 2012, final rule correction Federal Register notice. That final... View More