Live from the Industry/USPS Flats Summit: Catalog Printer Offers Alternative
Washington--During the July 16 Industry/U.S. Postal Service Flats Summit in Washington, most of the focus of the program centered on the USPS’s flats...
Live from the Industry/USPS Flats Summit: Flats Facts Nothing to Sneeze At
Washington--Criticized by the Office of Management & Budget and other government agencies for years for not achieving the kinds of automation savings...
FedEx Ground Launches Return Service
FedEx’s Ground division on June 9 launched FedEx Consolidated Return Service, which provides a network of drop-off locations, return packaging for small...
Live from ACC: Much to Worry About, Says DMA's Wientzen
San Francisco--Now that the U.S. Postal Service has said it doesn't intend to raise rates for at least another three years and the war with Iraq has ended...
DHL/Airborne Deal Could Aid Mailers
The proposed acquisition of Airborne Express by Deutsche Post, Europe's largest postal monopoly and the owner of DHL Worldwide Express, would turn the...
Mailer Groups Back Potter's USPS Recommendations
(Direct Newsline) Mailer groups for the most part supported Postmaster General Jack Potter's latest recommendations for maintaining the U.S. Postal Service,...
USPS, Union Ratify Contract Extension
The U.S. Postal Service last week ratified a two-year contract extension with the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. The action results in a 1.3% wage...
Catalog Legislation: Greetings from Washington!
Taxes, e-mail, privacy, postal issues, and telemarketing (inbound as well as outbound) there's a lot of new and pending legislation on all of these topics...
Three Years of Stable Rates Looking Likely
On March 6 the House Committee on Government Reform approved H.R. 734, designed to cut U.S. Postal Service pension payments. The bill comes after a comparable...
Postal Retirement Costs Bill Nears Law
The law needed to keep postal rates in check for the next three years now appears to be a slam dunk. Upon its passage this week in both houses of Congress,...
USPS, Mail Handlers Union Come to Terms
The U.S. Postal Service and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union agreed to a tentative two-year contract extension on April 7. If ratified by union...
USPS Releases CASS Enhancement
Mailers using the U.S. Postal Service’s Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) to verify their mailing lists can now use a new software enhancement the...
DHL Agrees to Buy Airborne Express Ground Network
DHL Worldwide Express, a delivery service owned by Deutsche Post AG of Germany, has agreed to acquire the ground delivery business of Seattle-based rival...
Three Years of Stable Postal Rates Looking More Likely
Congress has come a step closer to approving a bill designed to cut U.S. Postal Service pension payments. If the bill is approved, according to USPS statement,...
Bush Forms Presidential Commission to Overhaul USPS
Amid the headlines about Iraq and North Korea, reports of the newly formed presidential commission to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service may have been buried....
Vermont mailers go postal on reform efforts
"You’re a quiet, green group that needs a bullhorn." That’s what Jeffrey Munger, chief of staff for Sen. James M. Jeffords (I-VT) told about 40 catalogers,...
President postal commission kicks off hearings Jan. 8
U.S. Treasury undersecretary for domestic finance Peter Fisher, Postmaster General Jack Potter, and U.S. Postal Service vice president of finance/CFO...
No Postage Hike Till '06: Too Good to Be True?
The U.S. Postal Service made a stunning announcement on Nov. 5: Because the agency owes far less to the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) fund than...
FedEx Rates to Rise Jan. 6
FedEx Corp. on Nov. 20 announced that its air and ground rates will increase on Jan. 6. The expedited courier's FedEx Ground rates will rise an average...
Bush Administration Forms Presidential Commission to Overhaul USPS
Washington--The Bush Administration on Dec. 11 announced plans to form a commission to find ways to overhaul the U.S. Postal Service. While the commission’s...
LIVE FROM MTAC: USPS pushing legislation to shore up rate freeze
The U.S. Postal Service needs congressional legislation passed to make a potential rate freeze until 2006 a reality. In addressing the Mailers Technical...
LIVE FROM MTAC: Confirm mail tracking plan takes shape
The U.S. Postal Service’s Confirm program, which enables mailers to track delivery of bulk mail online, is being tested by five mailers, said Paul Bakshi,...
Postal Forum Report: Some Good News
Some encouraging news about postal rates: In his speeches at September's National Postal Forum in Boston, Postmaster General Jack Potter promised that...
USPS Proposes Flexible Pricing Tests
The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors (BOG) on Sept. 6 put its money where its mouth has been. The BOG said it had approved the filing with the Postal...
The Price of Free S&H
In their battle for customers, online superstores Buy.com and Amazon.com have been using shipping and handling as a weapon. Amazon.com began offering...
