The USPS Price Increase Request

Said on the Web

"One in two US consumers will shop for Back-to-School in 2010 and 50% of those consumers will look both online & in-store."
Heidi Spector, Google Retail Advertising Blog, July 7

"Stop getting your customers addicted to your offers. Offers are great, but if you use them too much, your customers will wait for that extra special offer and only buy then. Is that how you want them trained?"
Bryan Eisenberg, Shop.org Blog, July 6

"[E]very one of us multichannel folk are leaving a 10% sales increase on the floor by not doing the hard work necessary to make sure our websites matter to the customer/prospect."
Kevin Hillstrom, MineThatData, July 6

"#ecommerce tip of the day: Check site search logs for attributes customers are searching. You may consider adding these as new categories."
Tweeted by @elasticpath, July 1

"Placing badges on product shots can make a big difference to the way shoppers interact with your site. In fact, whenever our clients have introduced badging the effects have been positive (defined as an increase in conversion rate, an increase in average order value, or both)."
Stephen Cobb, Monetate,  June 17

At press time, the USPS filed its request with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) for an "exigent" price increase to take effect January 2, 2011. The USPS proposed an average price increase of 5.6 percent. Increases for catalogs range from 4 percent to 10 percent, depending on the characteristics of the mailing.

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