Contingency plans for acceptance of mailings are available for mailers who may be affected by Hurricane Sandy. If PostalOne! ® is unavailable in hurricane-impacted areas, or mailers are unable to produce/submit... View More
IWCO Direct--Happy Halloween everyone. Since it's the day for ghosts, ghouls and goblins it seemed appropriate to talk about an interesting article on Target Marketing's blog entitled, "Direct Mail Still... View More
Due to severe weather conditions expected in the Washington DC Metro area starting on Monday, October 29, 2012, the TEM Release deployments for PostalOne!® and FAST applications are cancelled for Monday,... View More
Hurricane Sandy is expected to hit the East Coast on Monday, October 29, 2012. There may be major flooding, high winds and power outages throughout the East Coast. If PostalOne!® is unavailable in... View More
Postal News Blog--Hurricane Sandy is already impacting the movement of mail in the Northeast- the USPS says FedEx, which transports Priority, Express and some first class mail, has cancelled service to... View More
E-commerce bytes--The race for same-day delivery is on, with eBay, Amazon, Walmart and other retailers all vying to get there first. Last week, the USPS said it was testing same-day delivery through a... View More
Federal Times--Despite maxing out a $15 billion line of credit with the U.S. Treasury last month, the U.S. Postal Service can scrape by at least through March. That's according to Ruth Goldway, chair of... View More
The planned Full-Service Release 11 deployments for PostalOne!®, eVS, FAST®, Program Registration, and SASP have been postponed. The PostalOne! Release 32.0 Production deployment originally scheduled... View More
A"2013 Price Changes" webinar presentation by Jeff Williamson, Vice President of Pricing. This webinar will address the business impacts of the proposed "Mailing and Shipping Services Price Change Effective... View More
USPS OIG--There has been a surplus in the U.S. Postal Service's Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) pension program since 1992. Most recently, the FERS surplus was projected to be $11.4 billion,... View More
(Reuters) - The financially struggling United States Postal Service has hit its $15 billion borrowing limit for the first time ever, meaning it will have to rely on revenues from stamps and other products... View More
Mark Bosler, Target Marketing--"We're in a deep financial crisis today because we have a business model that's tied to the past," Patrick Donahoe, USPS postmaster general, told The New York Times. "Our... View More
DC Velocity--The U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) proposed 2013 rate increases on shipping services will hit e-tailers fairly hard but take it somewhat easier on high-volume users of the USPS' Priority Mail... View More
Postal News Blog--The US Postal Service has announced that its Every Door Direct Mail market test has been a success, and the product will become a permanent offering in January 2013. From today's Federal... View More
Advertising Age--With its financial woes mounting, the U.S. Postal Service on Saturday sought a lifeline from the ad industry, plugging a plethora of business-targeted services such as branded stamps and... View More
Postal News Blog--The US Postal Service plans to test a same day delivery service in select metropolitan areas beginning next month. The service would target online retailers. The USPS isn't publicly revealing... View More
The planned Full-Service Release 11 deployments for PostalOne!®, eVS, FAST®, Program Registration, and SASP has been postponed. The PostalOne! Release 32.0 "Production" deployment originally scheduled... View More
We are continuing to work on the technical issue impacting the Full Service MicroStrategy reporting environment. At this time we estimate that this will be resolved by Monday, October 15, 2012. At that... View More
WASHINGTON - Beginning early next year, the Postal Service will introduce a First-Class Mail Global Forever Stamp. The new stamp will allow customers to mail letters anywhere in the world for one set price... View More
Arden Hills, MN-October 11, 2012-Lorton Data, a leader in data driven multichannel marketing services, has successfully completed the Service Organization Control (SOC) Type 2 report for its data center... View More