Flats Sequencing System Failure
Nearly a decade since its rollout, the Flats Sequencing System (FSS) — the football-field sized sorting machines for flats mail — is still falling short of expectations. [...]
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PA Vote By Mail Problems
Legal deadlines for receiving and mailing absentee ballots in Pennsylvania are too compressed and don’t give voters enough turnaround time to meet ballot deadlines [...]
USPS National Map Gives Live Status At Postal Facilities
The U.S. Postal Service’s National Map is an online, interactive tool that allows employees to track the operational status of postal facilities. It provides a visual [...]
The Mailroom Gear Guide
Per the Wall Street Journal, the residential mailroom has gotten a major upgrade. Floor-to-ceiling windows, a rope chandelier and a reclaimed wood table are all part of the [...]
Issues Impacting Mailer Scorecard
The USPS issued an Industry Alert about issues with updating the Seamless Tab of the mailer Scorecard on August 15, 2018 … (click to read [...]
Good-bye, POSTNET
The USPS has issued a proposed rule in the Federal Register for the amendment of the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service, Domestic Mail Manual, (DMM) to [...]
UPS Tests New Electric Vehicle
Initiative Supports Continued Strategic Electrification of UPS Global Fleet UPS today announced a collaboration with Thor Trucks, Inc. to develop and test a fully-electric [...]
JLS Mailing Services Reaches the Century Mark
Founded 100 years ago by a young woman who wanted to help her father sell his hay crop, JLS has become one of the nation’s leading, innovative mail services companies. [...]
2019 Postage Hikes Could Top 5% As Inflation Soars
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.2% in May, marking a 2.8% rise in the last 12 months. That means mailers will be paying more come January 2019. Under current law the USPS can [...]
Mail & Parcel Sorting: Make Sure Your Sort Hits The Mark
Corporate mail and parcel operations can use the same automation technology the U.S. Postal Services uses to make sure sort schemes hit the mark, as detailed in the latest [...]
Direct Mail Equipment: Mailing Machines To Get Your Bulk Mail Out The Door
Mail operations depend on mailing machine equipment and technology like no other industry to cut labor costs and gain bulk discounts from the U.S. Postal Service. But [...]
ACS Customers: Do Not Pay April or May Bills Due To Billing Errors
Mailers should not pay any ACS bills received in April or May due to significant billing errors, the USPS has announced. The bills have exaggerated balances due as well as [...]
Full House at the BÖWE SYSTEC Exclusive Days 2018
On April 18 2018, over 300 international guests took up the BÖWE SYSTEC invitation to the Exclusive Days at its Augsburg Headquarters – a response that not even the [...]
Sally Ride Stamp Launched
America’s First Female Astronaut to Soar on Forever Stamp SAN DIEGO — Sally Ride, America’s first woman in space, a pioneering astronaut, brilliant physicist and [...]
OMG Digital Advertising: Buy, Sell, Trade, Help Wanted
Low-cost online digital advertising in the OMG can help you buy, sell, or trade just about anything in the mail industry. Weekly ad rates let you … … run a Help [...]
WOW: New Production Inserter Processes Flats, #10, And 6×9 Mail Simultaneously
Neopost demonstrated its latest production mail inserter at NPF, processing flats, #10 and 6×9 mail in-line simultaneously — at speeds of 12,000 envelopes an hour. [...]