Mailing/Fulfillment - Postal Trends

On this episode of APPtitude, Ashley Roberts is joined by a colleague with a piece of direct mail from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia for its annual Achievement Awards.

PRC approved the USPS price adjustments for First-Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, Periodicals, Package Services, Special Services.

Valassis, owner of Clipper magazine, has acquired Sacandaga Direct Mail, a distributer of direct mail magazines. Sacandaga's portfolio has a circulation of more than 42,000 households and will mark the most recent addition to Valassis’ growing portfolio of local offerings.

In our new series, Apptitude, Ashley Roberts will take time in each episode to highlight some of the unique and innovative printing and finishing techniques being used in the commercial print and visual communications spaces. In this episode, we take a look at a piece of direct mail from Rochester, NY-based BCC Software that was developed and printed in-house by Shawmut Communications.

The United States Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission of price changes to take effect Jan. 21, 2018.

The U.S. Postal Service recently made a quiet change that will cause retirement to look sweeter for thousands of postal workers.

With social media as an integral part of people’s daily lives, integrating it with your direct mail can really help drive response.

Did you know that putting a “Fragile” sticker on your package increases the chance that it will get damaged?

The 5,000th store milestone arrives during a time when The UPS Store has experienced strong growth over the past several years.

Declining demand is supposed to cause lower prices, but the magazine industry’s key suppliers are…