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POSTAL ISSUES NEWSLETTER
Fall 2009

  • Financial Woes Continue for Postal Service
  • Postal Briefs
 

POSTAL ISSUES EXTRA
Spring 2009

  • Move Update Enforcement Postponed
  • USPS Financial Woes Continue
 

POSTAL ISSUES NEWSLETTER
Spring 2009

  • Postage Price Increase: What’s Coming in May (and November)?
  • Move Update Enforcement to Begin in May – Mailer Beware
  • Postal Service Announces Plans to Revamp Processing Network
  • Implementing Intelligent Mail Barcodes (IMb)
  • Postal Service Releases First Service Performance Measurement Results
  • Postal Service Ends FY2008 in Red, Continues Trend into FY2009
 

POSTAL ISSUES NEWSLETTER
Summer 2008

  • Implementing Intelligent Mail Barcodes (IMB)
  • New Move Update Requirements Take Effect in November
  • Postal Service Calls on Marketers to Become "Enviromailists"
  • Postal Notes
  • Postal Service Submits "Network Plan" to Congress
  • Volume Declines Cloud Postal Service Financial Picture
 

POSTAL ISSUES NEWSLETTER
Winter 2008

  • PMG Announces Delay in Mandatory Use of Intelligent Mail Barcodes for Automation Discounts
  • USPS Announces First
    “Price Adjustment”
    Under CPI Price Cap
  • Strategic Planning
  • USPS Sets Service Standards, Issues Performance Measurement Proposal
  • Postal Notes
  • Postal Service Shows Positive Net Income Despite Volume Drop
 

POSTAL ISSUES NEWSLETTER
Fall 2007

  • Implementing Postal Reform
  • Intelligent Mail Vision Moving toward Reality
  • Service Standards and Measurement
  • Postal Notes
  • Postal Service Projects $5.4 Billion Loss for FY 2007
  • Draft Rules Issued for Address Placement on Flats-Sized Mailpieces
   
 

POSTAL ISSUES NEWSLETTER
Summer 2007

  • Mailers Adjust to New Postage Rates
  • Implementing Postal Reform
  • Mail Moves America Coalition Formed to Combat Do-Not-Mail Legislation
  • Direct Mail Coalition Works to Prevent Tax on Postage and Mailing
  • USPS Continues Push for Improved Address Quality
  • USPS Agrees to Contracts with Clerks and Mail Handlers — Negotiations with Carriers Stall
  • Accounting Shifts, Volume Decline Affect USPS Financial Performance
  • Intelligent Mail Program Moves Forward

 

POSTAL REFORM BILL PASSES THE 109th CONGRESS

Click here for the latest information on the passage of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 and what it means to the direct marketing and mailing communities.

 

Printing Impressions
Plastics Printing — Handle with Care
by Erik Cagle
August 2006

 

Direct Magazine
Best Practices at Best Buy
by Richard H. Levey
July 2006

 

Direct Magazine
Room Service
by Beth Negus Viveiros
May 2006

 

Printing Impressions
Variable Data Integrity — Zero Tolerance Policy
by Mark Smith
April 2006

 

DM News
Strategies for DMers in a Tight Paper Market
by Mary Hyland
March 14, 2006

 

Graphic Art Monthly
Progress Requires Change
by Jim Andersen
November 2005

 

Direct Magazine
Get On A First Name Basis
by Debora Haskel
May 1, 2005

 

 

Printing Impressions
The Direct Approach
by Erik Cagle
February, 2005

 

DM News
Designing Direct Mail Pieces That Get Opened
by Debora Haskel
May 24, 2004

Direct Magazine
Posting a Profit
by Kurt Ruppel
April 1, 2004