Is it possible that Congress will enact a bill this year that would eliminate Saturday mail delivery? According to several postal experts, there are two chances for that occurring in 2011: slim and none.
What does a potential USPS shutdown mean for multichannel merchants that rely on the catalog channel? Multichannel Merchant senior writers Tim Parry and Jim Tierney went to the NEMOA Fall Conference in Quincy, MA on Sept. 21 and asked that question to five retail industry leaders.
The United States Postal Service can’t begin to gain profitability without help from the federal mandates that hold it back, Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe told attendees at the National Catalog Forum held June 21-22 in Washington by the American Catalog Mailers Association
With first-class mail slowly eroding away, the time is now to implement five-day delivery, according to Sam Pulcrano, vice president of sustainability for the U.S. Postal Service.
