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Anti-Greenwashing Campaign Scores Big Wins, Fights False Claims About Paper

New Fact Sheet on Greenwashing Now Available With pandemic lockdowns as a backdrop, banks, utilities, telecoms and other large service providers boosted their efforts to [...]

International Mail Service Suspensions Hit 107 Countries

The USPS updated its International Mail Service Suspensions list showing over 107 countries now have mail service suspended due to unavailability of transportation for the [...]

Melissa Helps Protect Voting Rights, Empower Vote-By-Mail

Rancho Santa Margarita, CALIF – June 16, 2020 – Melissa announced a special voter registration data file analysis and processing service to help election boards and [...]

Are You Ready for a Surge in Vote-By-Mail Ballots?

Inbound Ballot Technology Automates Verification And Processing States and other jurisdictions across the nation are bracing for a flood of Vote-By- Mail voter applications [...]

Ten Reasons You Need a Mail Expert on Your Election Team

— From Quadient (formerly Neopost) www.quadientdirect.com/vote-by-mail-solutions Let’s call 2020 the year of challenges: A presidential election. A highly polarized [...]

What You Need to Know When Planning For Vote-By-Mail

Veteran Vote-By-Mail Service Provider Rich Gebbie Discusses Challenges County’s Face Many counties and state election officials plan to quickly implement a robust, [...]

Card Mailing System

Banks and service bureaus are among the many card processors challenged by the trend towards smaller and smaller job sizes. This often results in time-consuming, costly [...]

USPS Package Intercept: Stop/Redirect Delivery

For a fee, USPS Package Intercept lets the sender or recipient stop delivery or redirect a package, letter, or flat that is not out for delivery or already delivered. Most [...]

Latest Insignia Die Cutter Installations

Rollem’s Insignia Die Cutting Division announced its latest installations of the Insignia Sheet-fed Flexo-Magnetic die cutters. The line is currently offered in four sizes [...]

Postage Rates Go Up Sunday Jan 26

Mailers will be paying more for postage beginning January 26, 2020 when new postage rates take effect. Here is rate information: Click for 2020 Rate Schedule PDF Click for [...]

NEXT FIVE YEARS: USPS Sees Volumes Declining, Delivery Points Growing

In accordance with federal law, the USPS has released its five-year strategic plan covering its goals for 2020-2024. The plan includes the usual statements on legislative [...]

2020 USPS Mailing Promotions Give Mailers 2% Discount

The USPS has announced its 2020 Promotions Calendar for marketers, printers, and mailers. The general purpose of the 2020 Promotions is to encourage the use of new technology [...]

Enter Your Mailpiece In USPS 2020 Competition

The Next Generation Campaign Awards are back. After last year’s highly successful contest, the USPS decided to continue with the same awards structure in two categories, [...]

U.S. POSTAGE RATES EFFECTIVE JANUARY 26, 2020 (Revised)

WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service has filed final, revised U.S. Postage Rates that will take effect January 26, 2020. The rates would raise Mailing Services [...]

Broadridge’s Haycock Elected President of Major Mailers Association

Todd Haycock, vice president of mailing services at Broadridge, was recently elected as president of the Major Mailers Association (MMA). MMA’s goal is to provide a forum [...]

UPS, FedEx Holiday Delivery Performance Dropped While USPS Improved

Working in a condensed holiday window, the major carriers performed well. Still, the USPS saw on-time delivery performance improve over last year, while UPS and FedEx [...]

GAO Report On USPS Offering Non Postal Services

The GAO issued a report on the USPS Offering Nonpostal Services through Its Delivery Network Would Likely Present Benefits and Limitations. It found that providing new [...]

Pitney Bowes Launches SendPro C Auto

STAMFORD, CT — January 8, 2020 — Pitney Bowes Inc. launched SendPro C Auto, the latest evolution of its SendPro digitally-connected sending technology portfolio. [...]

THE QUIET BEFORE THE TSUNAMI: USPS Set To Change In Unpredictable Ways

If you were a gambling person, it would be reasonable to bet that the current USPS Chief Operating Officer David E. Williams will become the 75th Postmaster General. After [...]

AUTOMATED PARCEL UNLOADING UNVEILED

Siemens Logistics Introduces RUBUS Fully Automated Unloading As the number of parcels continues to grow worldwide, courier, express, and parcel(CEP) service providersare [...]