Post&Parcel--Legal questions remain over the US Postal Service's intent to abandon Saturday delivery for regular letters from 5th August, with a measure to specifically allow the move failing to make... View More
Stamford, Conn., December 13, 2012 - Pitney Bowes technology was selected by the U.S. Postal Service® (USPS) to begin providing support and maintenance of its network of postal meters. A 6-year contract... View More
MEMPHIS, TENN., Nov. 30, 2012 - FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) will increase shipping rates for FedEx Ground and FedEx Home Delivery by a net average of 4.9% effective January 7, 2013. The FedEx Ground and FedEx... View More
PostalOne! Release 33.0.0 Deployment - will require an extended maintenance window to complete all software updates. There will be a PostalOne!® outage from 8 p.m. Saturday, January 12, 2013, through... View More
Postal News Blog--Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe lacks the constitutional and statutory authority to unilaterally implement his announced plan to eliminate Saturday mail delivery to tens of millions... View More
WASHINGTON - The Postal Service ranks as the fourth most trusted company - a two-point increase from 2011 and its highest company ranking since the survey's inception by the premier privacy trust study... View More
Post&Parcel--US Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has denied that abandoning Saturday deliveries for regular mail in the United States will lead to "massive layoffs". Addressing employees on Wednesday... View More
Salon--How bad have things gotten for America's national mail delivery system? The US Postal Service lost $1.3 billion last quarter, and this was regarded as good news. The venerable agency has been saddled... View More
WASHINGTON - Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe told a House committee today that the Postal Service is currently operating with a broken business model and the gap between revenues and costs will only... View More
MILFORD, Conn. (September 9, 2013) -Neopost USA, a leading creator of scalable business solutions for the postal and related digital communications industry, today announces the launch of its Delivery... View More
"The Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service met April 9th and discussed the Continuing Resolution recently passed by Congress to fund government operations. By including restrictive language... View More
The Hill--The Senate approved an amendment to the budget that would require political committees and campaigns to pay the full mailing price. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) introduced the amendment, which passed... View More
Post&Parcel--The US Postal Service might be able to win more federal shipping business by separating out some of its service costs as surcharges, then offering a lower basic rate. That's the view of... View More
CHICAGO - (April 16, 2015) - New DOT regulations with a mandatory compliance date of Aug. 7 will significantly reduce the exception allowances for shipping lithium batteries, which are potentially dangerous... View More
A successful direct mail campaign has three main components: the list, the offer and the creative. All three are important and require careful planning and execution to maximize response rates. However,... View More
Direct Marketing News--A new report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the Postal Service poses the theory that single-piece First Class Mail volume-which plummeted 61% since 1995 to 23... View More
PostalOne!® Release 34.0.0 Deployment - will require an extended maintenance window to complete all software updates. There will be a PostalOne! ® outage from 12 midnight through 9 a.m. CT, Sunday,... View More
ACS is an on-piece address correction service that allows mailers to receive change-of-address (COA) and other reasons for non-delivery electronically and reduces the number of manual (hardcopy) address... View More
On the Money--Key lawmakers in both parties say the odds of a postal reform measure being enacted this year are growing slimmer and slimmer. With just two weeks left in 2012, congressional negotiators... View More
The Postal Service has sent the Final Rule on Implementation of Full-Service Intelligent Mail Requirements for Automation Prices to the Federal Register for publication. In the meantime, the Final Rule... View More