The United States Postal Service (USPS) has made some revisions to its organization structure with regards to the Area and District offices. The New York Metro Area has been consolidated into the Northeast... View More
Formscan, a worldwide leader in inspection and verification systems, has announced that effective January, 2010 it will begin operating in North America as it does in Europe under the name Inspectron.... View More
At the MTAC WG 122 meeting today, the USPS shared its policies for verification and sampling procedures for Full-Service IMb. USPS said it plans to publish the information through a DMM Advisory, perhaps... View More
Postal News Blog--The USPS has posted the following solicitation on the Federal Business Opportunities web site: The United States Postal Service (USPS) is currently conducting market research and seeking... View More
Postal News Blog--If you look up the US Postal Service's RIBBS Customer Support site on Google today, you're currently being warned that the site "may harm your computer": Read more! Update: Zscaler... View More
Courier, Express & Postal Observer--The quotes from Congressmen Darrell Issa and Dennis Ross that have been quoted in the press have all come from a press release of the House Oversight and Government... View More
"Effective July 19 pricing for Standard Mail (Regular and Nonprofit) Commercial Flats will be decreased by 0.1¢ per-piece. For Flats weighing less than 3.3 oz, the per-piece rates are slightly lower.... 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
Earth Class Mail was built on the notion that businesses which receive a lot of important documents through old fashioned snail mail may benefit from the services it has to offer. The Seattle-based company,... View More
Collaborating with the mailing industry, we implemented a Lean Six Sigma test study in April 2009 with the goal of finding a balance between design innovation and machinability of folded self-mailers (FSM).... View More
From the Alliance of Non-profit Mailers: As of this writing, it appears legislation to provide relief for the Postal Service's health benefit liability obligation could move in the House of Representatives... View More
Post&Parcel--The US Postal Service is moving ahead with a new kind of contract with major mailer Discover Financial Services, that aims to counter declining First Class Mail volumes. Credit card company... View More
Postal News Blog--The Postal Regulatory Commission has issued its long awaited advisory opinion on the US Postal Service's proposal to do away with Saturday delivery. The opinion doesn't make a yes or... View More
EUS Marketing Blog--The U.S. Postal Service has developed two options for the use of the Intelligent Mail barcode (IMB): full-service and basic. The basic option is very similar to the current POSTNET... View More
Working through the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee, the Postal Service and the mailing industry have agreed to set an 80 percent threshold for barcode readability verifications for letter and flat... View More
Did you know that the Postal Service now has a new "Mail Anywhere" service that allows customers to use the same permit at every mailing location? If you are a Full-Service mailer you can definitely benefit... View More
WASHINGTON - Embracing electronic technology to promote the use of direct mail, the U.S. Postal Service recently revamped the companion website to Deliver, its magazine for marketers. The new "how-to"... View More