LONDON-(BUSINESS WIRE)-Expanding its line of postal services, Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced it will enable postal agencies worldwide to offer digital mail - a digital version of printed mail securely... View More
Bloomberg--The U.S. Postal Service would save $1.7 billion a year, not the $3.1 billion it projects, by cutting Saturday mail delivery, its regulator estimated. The Postal Regulatory Commission, which... View More
The Memphis Commercial Appeal has noted that "The United States Postal Service is routinely castigated for losing money, but in a series of internal audits it has identified $94 million in unnecessary... View More
WASHINGTON - Sending product samples in the mail is a proven way to engage consumers, test new products and generate sales. Now, with the introduction of an innovative co-op service from the U.S. Postal... View More
Washington Post--THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE (USPS) faces a financial death spiral. Burdened by excess infrastructure, outmoded regulations and high labor costs - not to mention facing digital-age obsolescence... View More
From PIWorld.com, as posted on Presort.com WASHINGTON, DC-Deep and aggressive cost-cutting steps just aren't enough for the United States Postal Service (USPS) to survive as an ongoing entity, Postmaster... View More
Federal Times reports, "Myths about the U.S. Postal Service fly fast and far these days. For instance, you have may have heard that there are 36,000 post offices in the U.S., which is more retail outlets... View More
REMINDER: PostalOne!® Release 29.0 Deployment will require an extended maintenance window from 8 p.m. CST on Saturday, January 7, 2012, through 10 a.m. CST Sunday, January 8, 2012. During this maintenance... View More
San Francisco Chronicle--$1.4 billion. That's how much money the U.S. Postal Service paid FedEx to deliver mail via cargo jets in fiscal 2010. FedEx carries express, priority and first-class mail on its... View More
Postal Explorer is an online source for up-to-date mailing standards. The Domestic Mail Manual is fully searchable on Postal Explorer and features fly-out menus, cross-reference links and an extensive... View More
Postcom.org--e USPS on November 23, 2010, held a webinar with PostCom and others to air its draft proposals for folded self-mailer designs [slides] based on the results of its testing. The proposed formats... View More
The Associated Press has reported that "The post office wants to get into the gift card business. Pre-paid cards have become one of the most popular gift items and postal officials want to do more than... View More
Postal Affairs Blog--a call for unity from Gene Del Polito, President, Association for Postal Commerce This is a subject we can all agree on and rally around. Take action "Well, the Thanksgiving Day holiday... View More
Postal News Blog--A survey of Chief Marketing Officers shows that most companies are spending about the same on holiday advertising in 2010 as they did last year, but they're shifting their mix of ads.... View More
Dead Tree Edition--The U.S. Postal Service's costs for handling Periodicals mail are so high partly because it insists on providing services that publishers don't want, according to a leading publishing... View More
Postal Affairs Blog--Yesterday Dead Tree Edition published this post on Barriers to Intelligent Mail, identified by the Office of Inspector General here. I am referencing the same OIG doc below, but focusing... View More
Lexiconn Blog--It's only a few days into the new year, and the US Postal Service (USPS) has managed to cause some major issues for many ecommerce merchants. What looked like a simple, straightforward update... View More
Wheeling, Ill., April 5, 2011 - BÖWE BELL + HOWELL (BBH) today announced the hiring of Joe Jockisch as senior product manager for the company's Imaging and Sorting Software group. Jockisch comes to... View More
Directmag.com--The U.S. Postal Service has filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the next step in its appeal of the Postal Regulatory Commission's order denying... View More