KANSAS CITY - Sen. Claire McCaskill plans to announce proposals Monday to keep rural post offices open and maintain six-day mail delivery for at least the next four years. McCaskill wants the proposals... View More
Adage.com--It's a lot of fun to call things "dead," and plenty of people are saying that about QR codes. But QR codes are very much alive as the stats below demonstrate. What really should die aren't QR... View More
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Postal Service released its 2009 annual report on sustainability performance in which Postmaster General John E. Potter credited postal employees for the agency's environmental achievements.... View More
Postcom.org--Reserve your Webinar seat now at: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/440969080 The Postal Service has been in the news a lot lately; but, despite what you might have heard, it is not... View More
Post&Parcel--US online postage company Stamps.com is set to move into a new corporate headquarters building next year, it said as it revealed record growth in its third quarter of 2011. The Los Angeles-based... View More
Multichannel Merchant--Nearly one third of all Standard Mail in the past two months contained a QR code, thanks to a U.S. Postal Service summer promotion that ends today, according to Tom Foti, the agency's... View More
Spring Global Mail has appointed Rudy van Rillaer as Vice President Global Operations, a management team position whose scope and responsibilities have been defined as a direct result of an extensive network... View More
Boston.com--The cost of sending letters and packages through the U.S. mail will go up in January, but small businesses can find ways to lessen the pain. They have plenty of options not just for sending... View More
Join The Association for Postal Commerce for a webinar on Thursday, August 25th at 1:00 PM Eastern presented by Cheryl Chapman, chairman of the EMA Foundation Institute for Postal Studies as she discusses... View More
The USPS announces the withdrawal of the Proposed Rule, Revised: Changes to Move Update Standards, published in the Federal Register July 12, 2011. This Federal Register notice proposed the revision to... View More
Dead Tree Edition--It's still not clear whether the U.S. Postal Service's $1.4 billion investment in the Flats Sequencing System will pay off, according to the chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission... View More
In November 2011 (Release 28) and January 2012 (Release 29), the Postal Service will release software for the PostalOne!® and Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST®) systems that include... View More
We're delighted and pleased to announce that we made this year's Inc 500-5000 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies, for the second year in a row. "Two years in a row is hard to do," explained CEO... View More
Multichannel Merchant--Direct-to-customer merchants who mail catalogs told Multichannel Merchant they are fine with the United States Postal Service's 5-day delivery plan, which is scheduled to go into... View More
Multichannel Merchant--WHEN I FIRST HEARD THAT the U.S. Postal Service was launching a summer program offering mailers a discount for using QR codes, I was more than a little skeptical. Why would the USPS... View More
Save the Post Office-- When Airmail was abolished in 1977, the Postal Service promised America, "All First-Class mail is going to fly." When Third-Class mail was changed to Single-Piece Standard in 1996... View More
Congressman Stephen F. Lynch, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service and the Census, released the following statement in response to the United State Postal Service's... View More
Post&Parcel--US postal regulators are looking into streamlining the way they review major service changes at the US Postal Service, in the light of rapid changes in the communications arena. Facing... View More
Washington, DC - The Postal Regulatory Commission today issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asking the public for comments and suggestions on possible improvements to its rules for considering... View More
Durham, N.C., Sept. 27, 2011 - Bell and Howell, a leader in address quality and document messaging innovations, will be exhibiting at the Direct Marketing Association's largest event of the year: DMA2011,... View More