Yesterday, the USPS Board of Governors (BoG) announced that recent congressional riders require the postal service to deliver mail six days a week. Over the last few months, USPS pushed the idea of “modified” six-day delivery, where only parcels and certain priority items would be delivered on Saturdays. Then congress passed a rider stating that [...]

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If you regularly process reply mail, you’ll likely be interested in the USPS Earned Value Reply Mail incentive that starts April 1. In order to qualify, you’ll need to ensure that you’ve signed up for the program no later than March 31. Early reports show that the signup process isn’t entirely straightforward. Out of the [...]

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Right after USPS announced its proposed prices for 2013, they posted a Federal Register notice about Full-Service Intelligent Mail. If you’re currently mailing at automation rates and would like to continue, the time to think about Full-Service is now. Full-Service will be required for automation prices in 2014. To ease this blow, USPS has announced [...]

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