A politician quipped, “There’s no DeJoy in the Post Office tonight,” after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced his 10-year plan to revive (rescue?) the US Postal Service on Tuesday. The US Postal Service also announced the formation of a task Read more
The Postal Regulatory Commission approved USPS postage rate changes for next year which are set to take effect on January 27, 2019. A first class Forever stamp will rise from 50 cents to 55 cents, and you can review EcommerceBytes Read more
The USPS filed its shipping rates for 2019, and it’s making some drastic changes that will impact online sellers. It’s not an across-the-board rate change, so some sellers will be impacted more than others, depending on what kinds of packages Read more
The cost of sending bulk low-value, lightweight goods internationally will go up for some shippers next month. The USPS is lowering the discounts in contracts with consolidators that have Negotiated Service Agreements for International Priority Airmail (IPA) letters and International Read more
Online sellers who rely on the USPS to deliver their ecommerce orders had some changes to contend with when the Postal service rolled out a rate change on January 17, 2016. EcommerceBytes has been covering the changes closely. We asked Read more
Chalk up another problem resulting from the January 2016 postal rate increase. The USPS inadvertently removed the ability for users to print postage for Priority Mail Regional Rate A and B boxes through its Click N Ship website when new Read more
Online sellers who rely on the USPS to ship packages to international customers saw a big rate increase overall with Sunday’s postal rate changes. Joseph Amalfitano of global shipping provider Globegistics said the latest rate increase could be catastrophic to the global Read more
People often marvel that you can find books on Amazon listed by third-party sellers going for a single penny. It’s not a new phenomenon, but will the USPS postage hike going into effect on Sunday impact penny books? The Wall Read more
eBay offered advice to sellers who are dealing with higher shipping costs. As the Postal Service rate hike for shipping services takes effect on Sunday, eBay said it has negotiated rates with the USPS that will save sellers up to Read more
Online sellers are dealing with increases in shipping costs this year, with the impending January 17th rate hike from the US Postal Service especially worrisome as they contain some big percentage increases across some classes of shipping services. Just some Read more
