Mailing/Fulfillment - Postal Trends

A pair of U.S. Postal Service employees confessed to stealing narcotics from packages at an O’Hare International Airport mail center.

Consumers may notice they're getting fewer postcards from friends, but USPS says direct marketers are still fans of the mail option. Specifically citing a product called "Every Door Direct Mail," USPS says on Monday that what it first issued as "postal cards" in 1873 are still distributed in the billions each year.

Direct mailers and consumers aren't getting the best possible USPS service they can receive and the "outrageous" delays need to end, say members of the American Postal Workers Union. While not mentioning the word "strike," union members say tomorrow they will "rally in more than 85 cities in 36 states across the country."

The USPS ended the Q2 of fiscal 2015 with an operating revenue increase of $223M, or 1.3 percent, over the same period last year.

It's time to play Follow the Bouncing Mr. ZIP. The USPS has finally gotten its way after the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) approved the balance of the market dominant price changes. They will take effect May 31, which is a Sunday. For those of you who follow the finer nuances of the saga, you know…

Today the PRC issued Order No. 2472 approving the USPS price adjustments for Standard Mail, Periodicals, Package Services.

The U.S. Postal Service had 3,300 more CCAs in April than allowed in its labor contract with the National Association of Letter Carriers, a report USPS issued last week indicated. The 2011 contract that created the non-career position capped the number of CCAs in each district at 15 percent of the total number of full-time career city carriers—plus another 8,000 nationwide to allow "flexible windows which may be necessary to develop and provide new products and services."

The number of people delivering mail for the U.S. Postal Service is actually growing slightly.

USPS reduced the large price increases it previously proposed for light weight, low advertising magazines.

With traditional letter mail in slow decline, USPS is eager to bolster its finances by developing new lines of business.