Amazon is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a one-day online shopping event offering “more deals than Black Friday.”
Mailing/Fulfillment - Postal Trends
After examining USPS’s fiscal year 2014 program performance report and fiscal year 2015 performance plan, the PRC issued a report.
Marketers who use Staples stores for their USPS needs may have to reroute to post offices after Aug. 17.
The Postal Service is shipping all 230,000 carriers new mobile devices with a soon-to-be-activated “panic button.”
AmazonFresh is now available in New York, with a fast-delivery promise. The USPS will presumably take on some of those deliveries.
Contrary to some opinionators, direct mail is going strong. Internet ads can't compete with a well-designed, creative, physical mail piece. You might spend a microsecond on a Web ad, but a mail piece has "got you" for 30 seconds at a minimum. So today's mailers are high-tech and well-equipped to keep this medium going strong for many years to come.
Postal rates for most mail usually undergo a predictable annual adjustment. But three events make 2015 different.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the (USPS) emergency rates should not become permanent.
Missouri letter carrier chucks mail into trash, but saves room in mailbag for beer. Now he faces five years in prison.
Negotiations on a new labor contract between the U.S. Postal Service and the American Postal Workers Union came to an impasse.