In what could be the best game of Monopoly ever, Postmaster General John Potter may have just drawn a card that reads "Inspector General finds error in your favor. Collect $75 billion dollars." The Inspector... View More
Bloomberg Businessweek has reported that "CVS Caremark Corp. and Medco Health Solutions Inc. are opposing the U.S. Postal Service's plan to end Saturday delivery, saying the move would delay needed medicines... View More
House postal subcommittee chairman Stephen Lynch told Wicked Local that "he's opposed to the Postmaster General's plan to save money by eliminating Saturday delivery. He favored closing some post offices... View More
Dead Tree Edition reports that "The Postal Service has decided to liberalize the "ride-along" rules that have prevented product samples and certain other advertising gimmicks from running in U.S. magazines,... View More
Parascript, LLC, the image analysis and pattern recognition technology provider, was awarded the prestigious STAR Supplier Award by Lockheed Martin for its performance and contribution to the success of... View More
BCC Software will conclude its year-long executive transition on June 30, with the retirement of founder and President K. Jon Runstrom. He will be succeeded by Chris Lien, currently BCC Executive Vice... View More
Dayton Daily News--As most of you know, the USPS is in deep financial trouble. There are discussions of making drastic changes in the level of service the USPS provides. On the other hand, Fed Ex is known... View More
From the Postal Affairs Blog: In case yesterday's unscheduled FAST outage wasn't a good enough example of instability with the required Full Service Intelligent Mail systems, the USPS comes through again... View More
Media Daily News has reported that "U.S. media and communications spending is poised for big growth from 2009-2014, according to a new forecast from Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a private-equity firm in the... View More
"We need to be freed from some constraints to get more speed to market and more flexibility," said Susan Plonkey, acting president for shipping and mailing services for the Postal Service in Washington."... View More
According to the folks at Intelisent, the Postal Service is about either shoot itself in the foot or shoot its customers with rules governing full service ACS Read the full post here... View More
Postal News Blog--On Jan. 7, PMG Pat Donahoe announced the beginning of an organizational redesign that will help streamline the Postal Service. The announcement included a 16-percent reduction in the... View More
Effective June 6, 2011, the Postal Service will revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 602.3.2.1 to extend the option to use a simplified address... View More
The Business Customer Gateway (BCG) external application Release 1.8 will deploy on March 6, 2011. Shipping Services and Incentive Programs will be added to the BCG with the launch of the new Program Registration... View More
Dead Tree Edition--Because the Postal Service is seeking a ruling on how to calculate its rate cap, mailers will probably have to wait a few weeks before learning what rate increases are in store for next... View More
Presort.com--There is a financial truism that every American family knows instinctively and every economist knows by rote: When goods are priced too high or services lose value, people cut back on spending.... View More
The Atlanta Business Chronicle has reported that "MailExpress has received a delivery of $10 million in venture financing from its current investors. MailExpress Inc. offers high-volume corporate mailers... View More
In separately filed comments with the Postal Regulatory Commission in the matter of the Postal Service's exigency rate increase request, the Saturation Mailers Coalition, Valassis Direct Mail, Inc., Valpak... View More
By Christopher Hosford at BtoBOnline.com, as posted on Presort.com--Much of the attention on the U.S. Postal Service these days looks at its money-losing ways, as both consumers and businesses increasingly... View More