Postal Service – Official Mail Guide (OMG)

USPS Reports First Quarter Results: Revenue Up 2.9%; Direct Mail Volume Up

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service reported total revenue of $19.7 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 (October 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018), an increase [...]

New Address Information System (AIS) Products Technical Guide

The Address Information System (AIS) Products Technical Guide contains documentation on all AIS products, including Residential Delivery Indicator (RDI), Z4Change, ZIPMove, [...]

Informed Address: Mail With No Physical Address

The USPS is piloting a platform of new concepts called Informed Address, which enables mail to be sent and delivered without the customer’s physical address by leveraging [...]

USPS 2019 Mailing Promotions Final Calendar Released

Here is the final calendar of all 2019 postal promotions mailers can take advantage of to get discounted postage rates … (click to read) Click for additional details on [...]

USPS To Test “Informed Address” — A Delivery Number, No Physical Address

WASHINGTON, DC — December 4, 2018 — The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is operating in an increasingly digital world where communication and marketing efforts often [...]

Governors Appoint Whitcomb Inspector General

WASHINGTON – The Governors of the U.S. Postal Service today announced the appointment of Tammy L. Whitcomb as the third Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service. The [...]

Postal DIM Weight Pricing Expansion June 23, 2019

Sharon Owens, USPS VP for Pricing and Costing, outlined the 2019 postage rate hikes and other developments including 2019 Mailing Promotions. She also said the dimensional [...]

USPS Mailpiece Design Approval Knowledge Base

The Postal Service has launched a Mailpiece Design Approval Knowledge Base, to provide consistent and universal evaluations of mailpieces entered through Business Mail Entry [...]

USPS Reports $3.9 Billion Loss In 2018

PMG: Urgent need to advance legislative and regulatory reforms, along with continued aggressive postal management actions to generate new revenue and control costs [...]

California Wildfires: Post Office Closures; Mail Service Disruptions

Last updated 11-19-18 at 1pm ET: California Los Angeles District Due to wildfires and road closures, the following Post Offices in Malibu remain closed: Malibu, 23838 Pacific [...]

USPS, APWU Agree To Continue Negotiations Into November

WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) have agreed to extend contract negotiations on a new collective bargaining [...]

PostalOne! January 2019 Changes

The USPS issued the PostalOne! January 2019 release notes, to become effective January 27, 2019. Included in this document are the changes that are under consideration for [...]

USPS Introduces New Proof of Delivery Letter

— From USPS Mail and Package Information Systems, Enterprise Analytics, 9-13-18: On July 22, 2018, the Postal Service released an improved version of the Proof of Delivery [...]

Postal Mail Tracking Codes: What They Mean

What does “Received By Agent” mean? You probably have seen that and a dozen other terms and not understood. The USPS uses such terminology as part of its mail and [...]

Hurricane Florence: North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia Post Offices Mail Service Update; Zip Code List

Mail Service Disruption Alert Last updated 9-27, 8:30 p.m. ET North Carolina The Post Offices listed below remain closed with services available at alternate locations: [...]

Senate OK’s Two Governors

The U.S. Senate confirmed two nominees for the USPS Board of Governors — Robert M. Duncan, a Kentucky resident, and David C. Williams, an Illinois resident. Williams is [...]

USPS To Retire External First Class Measurement (EXFC) System

On July 5, 2018, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved Internal Service Performance Measurement (SPM) as the Postal Service’s official system of record for [...]

Hawaii To Conduct All Elections By Mail

Hawaii is on its way to becoming the fourth state in the nation to conduct all elections by mail, beginning in two years, according to the USPS. Colorado, Oregon and [...]

PRC Proposes Revised Formula For Calculating Competitive Costs

The Postal Regulatory Commission released a revised formula to be used to calculate the minimum amount that competitive products as a whole are required to annually [...]

Enterprise Analytics PDF Report At MTAC

The USPS made a presentation on Enterprise Analytics at MTAC’s June meeting, detailing a plethora of mailing issues and solutions including Informed Visibility, [...]