United States Postal Service
The net loss totaled nearly $2.3 billion, an increase of $767 million, compared to a net loss of nearly $1.5 billion for Q3 last year.
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%.
Rob Hanks, Suttle-Straus, highlights the four tools that mailers need to have in their tool box to make there jobs easier.
Postage prices increase on Sunday. In the bellwether price rise, Forever stamps increase a penny.
President Trump was off base Friday when he implied that Amazon has a sweetheart deal with the U.S. Postal Service.
We spoke with three direct mail printers, Jim Andersen, CEO, IWCO Direct; Mark DeBoer, director of customer experience, Darwill; and Laura Helfers, director of creative and marketing, Freedom, who shared their direct mail printing outlook for the year ahead.
Forever stamps will increase from 49 to 50 cents on Jan. 21. On that day, Mailing Services product prices will also rise.
PRC approved the USPS price adjustments for First-Class Mail, USPS Marketing Mail, Periodicals, Package Services, Special Services.
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.