USPS announced updated prices and products last week. Fortunately for most US mailers, not much is changing. Here’s a quick summary of the changes that will go into effect January 27: POSTNET barcodes will be retired. This wasn’t announced in the rate case filing, but the barcode retirement lines up exactly with these price changes. [...]

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After an exhaustive testing cycle with mailers, USPS has updated their design requirements for Folded Self-Mailers (FSM). The new design requirements are complicated, but that’s actually a good thing for mailers. By offering many design choices, USPS encourages mailers to be creative with their mail piece design while keeping the designs compatible with mail processing [...]

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MTAC Co-Chair and USPS representative Steve Kearney spread some early Christmas cheer today — Full-Service mailers no longer have to worry about losing their discount on January 2. Here’s the full details, sent through the DMM Advisory: Dear MTACers: We are delaying Full-Service eDoc postage corrections, which we had planned to deploy on January 2, [...]

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