Postal
November 16, 2015 at 9:54 am
One of the biggest fans of the U.S. Postal Service is uncertain whether he can continue to use it once new rates for parcels go into effect in two months. Mitch Goldstone, CEO of ScanMyPhotos in Irvine, California, credits the flat rate Priority Mail box with inventing his entire business, and said so in a…
October 22, 2015 at 11:00 am
This is a guest post by Gordon Glazer, director of strategic partnerships and modal optimization strategies for Shipware, a parcel audit and consulting firm that helps volume parcel shippers reduce shipping costs. Gordon can be reached at gordon@shipware.com. The USPS Board of Governors has proposed a major price increase for competitive (i.e., shipping) products to take…
September 17, 2015 at 1:02 pm
The US Postal Service will help get Alibaba merchandise into the hands of US consumers more quickly. The agency signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba's logistics firm Cainiao to work together to develop new international shipping solutions and enhance the logistics-service experience for sellers and buyers. Alibaba said the global B2C cross-border e-commerce market…
July 7, 2015 at 2:55 pm
Whether you find postal counters at retail chain stores to be convenient or ill-conceived, it's not a sure thing they will continue. A judge found last year that the USPS violated the National Labor Relations Act by withholding certain information from the American Postal Workers Union. The Union requested the information in connection with bargaining…
May 19, 2015 at 3:29 pm
The USPS is testing a new feature to engage consumers through mobile devices and make snail-mail marketing more attractive to retail marketers. The revelation came from Postmaster General Megan Brennan in a keynote speech at the National Postal Forum on Monday. The project, known as real mail notification, is being piloted in Northern Virginia and…
May 15, 2015 at 3:55 pm
Two Republicans on the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform sent a letter to the U.S. Postmaster General demanding she turn over details about the agency's competitive products operations. In a letter dated May 13, 2015, Republican representatives Jason Chaffetz and Mark Meadows demanded Postmaster General Brennan provide the committee with a…
May 5, 2015
Speakers discuss why print still works, how it can be integrated into a multichannel marketing mix, and the future of catalogs.
April 9, 2015
Before a room full at catalogers at the American Catalog Mailers Association's (ACMA) Annual Forum and Policy Caucus in Washington, D.C. yesterday, Megan Brennan, the 74th Postmaster General and CEO of the U.S. Postal Service — and the first woman to hold the position — addressed the future of her organization and why she believes it can still be a viable entity in an increasingly digital world.
March 30, 2015
The USPS Board of Governors decided on Friday to delay the implementation of new market-dominant and competitive rates and classification changes until all of its proposed market-dominant changes are approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission. This decision was primarily motivated by a desire to eliminate potential adverse impacts on postal customers that might result from a staggered implementation of our new prices.
February 26, 2015
The U.S. Postal Service is making rate changes in April, both for market-dominant services and competitive products. The USPS received approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission this week. The good news for many small online sellers is that Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express rates are not increasing. But there is negative news for sellers using First Class Package International Service. We checked in with Eric Nash of Stamps.com for help in understanding the impact of the new rates on online sellers.
