Dead Tree Edition--A Congressional panel heard the blunt truth today about how Congress' budget games have put the U.S. Postal Service on track to run out of money in September. "Burdensome and flawed... View More
Post&Parcel--The US Postal Service has extended its partnership with the producer of its Mover's Guide, which helps US residents change address when moving house. The USPS has put pen to paper on a 10-year... View More
Post&Parcel--Delegates at last week's National Postal Forum hoping to hear of US Postal Service plans for digital mail services were disappointed to hear only references to "work in progress". Among... View More
Based upon mailer requests, the Postal Service® has established a new Service Type Identifier (STID) to distinguish Courtesy Reply Mail from other First-Class Mail® pieces. Currently, Service Type... View More
Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST®) Release 16.0, originally scheduled for deployment March 6, 2011, will now be deployed to the Production environment effective Sunday, April 17, 2011. Updated... View More
Three new educational presentations from the United States Postal Service will be posted next week on RIBBS>Intelligent Mail Services>Education: IMb Basic Option - How to Work with Your Mail Preparer... View More
To address critical network issues recently affecting the Business Customer Gateway and all external applications accessed through the Gateway, an emergency scheduled maintenance outage will occur on Sunday,... View More
Pittsburgh Business Times--The U.S. Postal Service is making bulk mailing easier at a time when cost-conscious business owners are turning to more targeted mailings, some experts say. Read more!... View More
The Daily Caller--Postal workers overcome all sorts of adversity to deliver the mail: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed... View More
The Postal Service wishes to clarify erroneous information in at least two recent news articles regarding requests for non delivery of mail with simplified addressing. Consumers who do not wish to receive... View More
Postal News Blog--The Postal Regulatory Commission has approved the Postal Service's planned rate increases for its market dominant products, including first class and standard (advertising) mail. There... View More
A typographical error on line B14 in Part B of the new April 17, 2011, PS Form 3602-R, Postage Statement has been corrected. The correct price is 0.338. The corrected Postage Statement is available online... View More
PostalOne!® Release 26.0 Final Release Notes: PostalOne! Release 26.0 final release and patch notes have been posted to the RIBBS website at ribbs.usps.gov. Additionally, release content and notes... View More
According to National Association of Postal Supervisors President Ted Keating (writing in the Federal Times), "The U.S. Postal Service faces big problems. It could lose as much as $7 billion this year... View More
Post&Parcel--Pitney Bowes has launched a new series of free white papers on the theme of customer communications management (CCM). The four white papers focus on research conducted by Pitney Bowes... View More
TargetMarketingMag.com--Sophisticated software. Computer databases leveraged to their full extent. Clever personalization with text and images. Digital print devices producing gorgeous four-color images.... View More
DM News--Direct mail. Nobody talks about it. It's not cool. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of direct marketing. When marketers talk about it, it's usually in the context of the drop in mail volume to the... View More
This Industry Market Research report from IBISWorld provides a detailed analysis of the Direct Mail Advertising in the US industry, including key growth trends, statistics, forecasts, the competitive environment... View More
Löhne, Germany, June 6, 2011 - W+D Direct Marketing Solutions (W+D DMS) invited current and potential customers to Germany to an Open House at the end of May 2011 and presented together with their... View More
OIG Blog--How has the digital age changed your life? Do you still shop in a store or buy online? Get the newspaper delivered or have an online subscription? Read hard copy books or use an e-reader? If... View More