Modern Service Standards Maps Service Standards maps and data files containing originating, destinating, and destination entry data files have been added to the Modern Service Standards page on RIBBS®... View More
Postcom responds to Ruth Goldway's "cash cow" comment: Here's a quote: "The Postal Service has been a kind of cash cow for the federal government for the last 40 years," says Postal Regulatory Commission... View More
Post&Parcel--Businesses in the US are being encouraged to use a bank-provided alternative last mile service to speed up customer payment processes in the light of changes to the US mail network. As... View More
Durham, N.C., Oct. 4, 2012 - Bell and Howell, a leading provider of solutions and services for paper-based and digital messaging, today announced that APEX has selected the company as its business partner... View More
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 4, 2012- DATAMATX, a national outsourcing provider and leader in the distribution of critical business communications and payment services, today announced that its president/CEO and... View More
CHICAGO, July 9 (UPI) -- The auctioneer handling the sale of the old Chicago Main Post Office says he is hoping for an opening bid of at least $300,000 for the property. Rick Levin of Rick Levin &... View More
Direct Marketing News--Today's media landscape is as complicated as it is vast. As each new channel becomes the shiny marketing object du jour, others get all but cast aside. Nearly lost to some marketers... View More
The US Postal Service has posted a second notice seeking contractors interested in providing "second generation" Flat Mail Sequencing System (FSS). The USPS says it wants the machines to serve markets... View More
Matthew Broder--Imagine a patient checking into the hospital with a serious, but curable, illness. The vital signs have been deteriorating for awhile, but there is disagreement among the medical staff... View More
Susan M. Plonkey was named new acting president, mailing and shipping services, for the U.S. Postal Service on June 3. Plonkey succeeds Robert F. Bernstock, who left the USPS to pursue interests in the... 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
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
Postal Regulatory Commission has held a pre-hearing conference on the Postal Service's proposal to move from six-days to five-days for mail delivery. The members of the Commission have assured their impartiality... View More
PostalOne! Release 25.0.0 will deploy on November 7, 2010. The key features of this release are: --Deploy a process for verifying Intelligent Mail Full-Service electronic dcumentation. --Fees will be charged... View More
WASHINGTON - With the reopening of international airports across Europe, full service for international mail has resumed, and the temporary restriction imposed by the U.S. Postal Service since April 21... View More
GAITHERSBURG, MD - MCS, Inc. is celebrating the culmination of more than a year of R&D with the launch of six important new products designed specifically for the production direct mail industry --... View More
PostNL, the national postal operator for The Netherlands, has selected ID Mail Systems and a special version of its flagship product, the Dispatcher MX, for a new mail coding, printing and sorting application.... View More
Washington Post--WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service, on the brink of default on a second multibillion-dollar payment it can't afford to pay, is sounding a new cautionary note that having squeezed out... View More
Window Book Postal Concierge--One thing that never changes in the mailing industry is the speed at which things change! Two major changes coming up are the PostalOne! update on October 14, 2012, and the... View More
The U.S. Postal Service has awarded ABM Security Services a Supplier Performance Award for the Company's service in 2009. ABM Security was one of only 13 companies out of the USPS's more than 15,000 suppliers... View More