After another quarter with losses in the billions, the U.S. Postal Service is once again urging Congress to enact legislation that would free the agency to adjust its operating schedule and move to five-day weekly delivery. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe Read more
Social media owes its current day phenomenon of acceptance to the most basic need for communication that people have. Communication has taken many forms over the centuries, with the works of the United States Postal Service being one chapter among Read more
WASHINGTON – As more Americans come to understand more about the operations of the U.S. Postal Service and its increasingly dire financial predicament, they are willing to let some services that the agency provides slip. Just don’t mess with package Read more
In 2020, when your supplies of milk and butter start to run low, your refrigerator will know to send out a call to the grocery store and, later that day, the Postal Service will show up at your door with Read more
The US Postal Service is trying to catch up to UPS and FedEx when it comes to providing customers with delivery status information – something that ecommerce sellers are finding increasingly important. The USPS renamed “Delivery Confirmation” to “Tracking” last Read more
Fashion shopping app Poshmark and the US Postal Service have embarked upon an exclusive partnership featuring Poshmark-branded shipping labels for their sellers. The new program, called PoshPost now features a shipping rate for buyers of $4.99 on all orders, beginning March 20th. The fashionable Read more
Online merchants are already challenged in meeting the expectations of shoppers who wish to get their orders delivered fast and free. Now Amazon and the USPS are adding another standard that online consumers may come to expect – Sunday deliveries. Read more
A man who ordered tractor parts online for over one thousand dollars has sued the United States of America and the U.S. Postal Service, claiming the USPS lost his package but refused to honor his insurance claim. Submitted in evidence Read more
Should the USPS get into the financial services business as it searches for additional revenue streams? That’s an idea that the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) proposed in a recent report. The OIG suggests it could lead to $8.9 Read more
There are signs that same-day delivery may not be as winning a model as some had hoped. The USPS suspended one of two pilot programs called Metro Post due to a lack of participation from retailers, and eBay CEO John Read more
