Archive for the ‘USPS’ Category
USPS Refuses To Send Electronic Gizmos Overseas
The United States Post Services has banned the international shipment of electronic equipment fitted with lithium batteries as well as the batteries themselves starting May 16 although it’s perfectly okay inside the country. The USPS did not give a reason or cite any studies leading to the ban. The decision, which classifies iPad, Kindles, smartphones, [...]
USPS Pilots Parcel Lockers
The United States Postal Service has started adopting the 24/7 self-service parcel locker that has started popping up in Europe. With the number of parcels on the rise because of Internet shopping, many of them consigned to the USPS for last-mile delivery, with the USPS wanting to cut deep into its headcount and trim its [...]
USPS Contract Talks Collapse
After months of dickering, the United States Postal Service threw in the towel Friday and said that further contract negotiations with two of its union were futile. Collective bargaining had reached an “impasse.” Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), acted surprised, issuing a statement saying, “I am disappointed by the [...]
OIG Sees USPS as Zumbox
The USPS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is back with a fourth white paper telling the USPS to go digital. This one basically says the post office should ape the start-up Zumbox and set up an e-mail service called “eMailbox” that incorporates the .post domain and a highly secure data storage service called “eLockbox” [...]
USPS Bites the Bullet, Cries ‘Layoffs’
On the brink of insolvency and saying that “its very existence” is threatened, the United States Postal Service is proposing, as a last ditch measure, to break its nine-month-old labor contract with its largest union so it can cut its labor force by close to 40% by 2015. It will take a law passed by [...]
USPS Wracks Up Another Big Loss
The United States Postal Service said Friday that it’s lost another $3.1 billion. It blamed an “anemic” economy and the Internet for costing it another 2.7% drop in mail volume to 39.8 billion pieces in its third quarter ended June 30. The agency’s losses so far this fiscal year amount to $5.7 billion. It lost [...]
USPS To Hold Sale on Interactive Mail
The United States Postal Service has gotten the nod from the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) to run a “sale” this summer and offer direct mailers an upfront 3% discount on junk and First-Class Mail, flats and cards. Catch is they have to incorporate what the USPS calls “those quirky little pixilated squares” that smartphones like [...]
USPS Broker Today than Yesterday
The United States Postal Service lost $2.2 billion in the March quarter, practically a billion dollars more than it lost the same time last year. Its operating revenues were down 2.8% to $16.2 billion. Mail volume fell from 42.3 billion items last year to 41 billion – first-class mail, the most profitable, was down 7.6% [...]
USPS & Hongkong Post Start ePacket Service
The US Postal Service has initiated a new service with Hongkong Post to foster growth in e-commerce. The new ePacket service expands the options offered to e-commerce merchants in Hong Kong who want to reach consumer markets in the United States. It features tracking and Delivery Confirmation for lightweight goods and merchandise ordered by American [...]
Uh-Oh, New Rival To Challenge FedEx, UPS & USPS
Serial entrepreneur Ron Wiener, whose Venture Mechanics venture arm incubated Swiss Post partner Earth Class Mail, has spent the last couple of years putting together a new parcel carrier meant to challenge FedEx, UPS and the USPS in delivering B2C packages from the scads of SMBs that don’t qualify for FedEx and UPS discounts and [...]