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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, [...]

STOP Law Forces USPS To Track International Mail

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved H.R. 5788, Securing the International Mail Against Opioids Act, by a vote of 353-52. The law [...]

Postal Reform Bill Introduced In House

An updated Postal Reform Act of 2018 was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives June 15, a mirror bill of the Postal Reform Act of 2017. The only difference [...]

ACS Billing Suspended; No Bills In June

The USPS announced that ACS billing has been suspended until the issue with ACS billing is resolved. There will not be invoicing in June 2018. Earlier in the month the USPS [...]

Self Service Post Office, Automated Guide Vehicles Deployed

The Postal Service is continuing to innovate with automation, opening its first self-service only retail unit and deploying automated guide vehicles (AGVs). USPS Chief [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Scratch-n-Sniff Frozen Treats Forever Stamps

WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service’s first scratch-and-sniff stamps will add the sweet scent of summer to letters of love, friendship, party invitations and other [...]

ZIP Code Lookup

Look Up a ZIP Code by address, by city or by state from the official source, the United States Postal Service: Click to Lookup ZIP Code By Address Click to Lookup Zip Code By [...]

President Trump Orders Review Of USPS

President Trump ordered a review of the Postal Service, signing an executive order late Thursday April 12 that creates a task force to “conduct a thorough evaluation of [...]