PA Mailman Sues USPS After Being Fired For Refusing To Work Sundays
A Pennsylvania mailman says he was fired because he refused to work on Sundays, a day of mandatory rest according to his Christian beliefs … (click to read [...]
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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 [...]
USPS CHINA VIRUS MAIL UPDATE
USPS ALERT: Temporarily suspending the guarantee on Priority Mail Express International destined for China and Hong Kong, effective Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, due to widespread [...]
Post Reports First Quarter $748 Million Loss
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Postal Service reported total revenue of $19.4 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2020 (October 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019), a decrease of [...]
USPS Trucks Made In Mexico
From Sen. Brown’s Office: Senator Urging Navistar to Keep Jobs in Springfield, Demanding Answers as to Why the Company Shifted USPS Truck Production to Mexico [...]
Informed Delivery Mailer Guides Released
Informed Delivery Mail.dat Mailer Guide This is the mailer guide for creating campaigns via Mail.dat and submitting them to PostalOne! via eDoc submission. Effective January [...]
Mail.dat Technical Specifications R50 (Final Version)
The USPS has released the final version of the Mail.dat Tech Specifications, effective January 12, 2020 … (click to [...]
OIG: Next-Day Delivery More Important Than Same-Day
From the OIG: The same-day delivery of merchandise and groceries in the U.S. accounted for only 249 million packages in 2018, making it a niche market with uncertain [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
USPS To Require Seamless For DMU Mailers
The Postal Service is proposing to revise Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service to require Detached Mail Unit (DMU) mailers and mailers that enter [...]
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. [...]
Postmaster General Agrees to Delay Retirement
The U.S. Postal Service made the following announcement on January 6, 2020: The Governors of the United States Postal Service are conducting a thorough, nationwide search for [...]
USPS ROBOTIC SORTING SYSTEM SPEEDS PROCESSING
The USPS’ robotic Universal Sorting System is helping the San Francisco distribution center deliver holiday mail. What used to take ten people to sort 200 packages can [...]
Updated Mail.dat and Mail.XML Specifications
The Postal Service has released the following updated specifications (click to see): Mail.XML Technical Specification R50 (Version 2) Mail.dat Technical Specifications R50 [...]
PRC Revises Rate Setting Plan
WASHINGTON, DC – The Postal Regulatory Commission issued a revised notice of proposed rulemaking December 5, 2019 aimed at modifying the system for regulating rates and [...]
USPS Chairman Robert Duncan Confirmed For Seven Year Term
In December 2019, the Senate confirmed Robert M. (Mike) Duncan to serve as a Governor of the U.S. Postal Service for a seven-year term that expires on December 8, 2025. [...]
