Mailing/Fulfillment - Postal Trends

A plan to increase publishers' postage rates drastically over the next five years would cause ESPN The Magazine to cease publication, an ESPN official indicated Friday.

The U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) money-losing Flats Sequencing System (FSS) is becoming even less productive and more problematic, according to the USPS's own statistics. In the past two years, the average number of mail pieces processed per machine hour has decreased by 8%.

Idealliance honored mailing industry leaders Rose Flanagan, Robert Galaher, and Bob Rosser during its annual Postal Exchange Summit.

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Rob Hanks, Suttle-Straus, highlights the four tools that mailers need to have in their tool box to make there jobs easier.

A coalition of mailing industry non-profit trade associations today released its 2018-2020 Mail Supply Chain Strategic Plan.

Postage prices increase on Sunday. In the bellwether price rise, Forever stamps increase a penny.

When done correctly, direct mail can be a very cost-effective way to reach targeted prospects and customers. Your return on investment

Few would deny that 2018 is shaping up to be a fraught and contentious year politically. But, it isn’t likely that political news of the headline-grabbing, “breaking” variety is going to have all that much to do with issues of primary concern to the printing industry. Those issues, nonetheless, are real, and the need for printers to understand and engage with them has seldom been more urgent.

President Trump was off base Friday when he implied that Amazon has a sweetheart deal with the U.S. Postal Service.