United States Postal Service
March 30, 2016 at 10:09 am
The U.S. Postal Service fell short of its performance targets for a host of its mailing and shipping services last year, and on-time delivery percentages in many categories were actually worse than 2014, the agency's regulator has found. The Postal Regulatory Commission this week issued a critical report detailing the shortcomings of a broad array of…
February 16, 2016 at 10:38 am
Online sellers who rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver their orders had some changes to contend with when the Postal Service rolled out a rate change on Jan. 17. EcommerceBytes has been covering the changes closely. We asked USPS spokesperson Katina Fields about the big changes and about some of the road bumps for…
January 19, 2016 at 10:53 am
Amazon.com told sellers on Monday it had negotiated a deal with the USPS so they will see no rate change on the cost of Priority Mail shipping, which will remain at 2015 rates. The deal is unprecedented, since Priority Mail rates increased 9.8 percent on average as of Sunday, and an increase of 9.4 percent…
December 23, 2015 at 11:20 am
With this being the last issue of Total Retail Report of 2015 (it returns on Mon., Jan. 4), we thought it would be a good time to put together a list of our most popular content of the year. This content is ranked in order based on the number of page views. Our best wishes…
December 14, 2015 at 10:00 am
If UPS has its way, it could cost more to ship a package through the U.S. Postal Service. The shipping giant is petitioning federal regulators to force the Postal Service to adjust the way it calculates its costs, arguing that the agency is using the proceeds from its monopoly First Class mail to subsidize the…
November 16, 2015 at 9:54 am
One of the biggest fans of the U.S. Postal Service is uncertain whether he can continue to use it once new rates for parcels go into effect in two months. Mitch Goldstone, CEO of ScanMyPhotos in Irvine, California, credits the flat rate Priority Mail box with inventing his entire business, and said so in a…
October 22, 2015 at 11:00 am
This is a guest post by Gordon Glazer, director of strategic partnerships and modal optimization strategies for Shipware, a parcel audit and consulting firm that helps volume parcel shippers reduce shipping costs. Gordon can be reached at gordon@shipware.com. The USPS Board of Governors has proposed a major price increase for competitive (i.e., shipping) products to take…
July 7, 2015 at 2:55 pm
Whether you find postal counters at retail chain stores to be convenient or ill-conceived, it's not a sure thing they will continue. A judge found last year that the USPS violated the National Labor Relations Act by withholding certain information from the American Postal Workers Union. The Union requested the information in connection with bargaining…
March 30, 2015
The USPS Board of Governors decided on Friday to delay the implementation of new market-dominant and competitive rates and classification changes until all of its proposed market-dominant changes are approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission. This decision was primarily motivated by a desire to eliminate potential adverse impacts on postal customers that might result from a staggered implementation of our new prices.
August 18, 2014
The United States Postal Service is raising rates for Priority Mail when purchased at the post office. But it is lowering rates for those who purchase Priority Mail postage online, a further incentive for merchants to print labels online. The USPS announced the new rates last month, and the Postal Rate Commission issued its order approving the rate changes on Friday, August 15. The new rates take effect on Sept. 7.
