Author: Steve Kearney
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How the USPS’s Proposed Changes to Marketing Mail Hurts Customers
How the USPS’s Proposed Changes to Marketing Mail Hurts Customers By Phil Thompson–Republished with permission by the author. October 2, 2018 On August 23, the United States Postal Service filed a Federal Register with proposed changes to the definition of Marketing Mail Contents. This proposal has mailers at all levels very concerned, regardless of industry. Members…
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Informed Delivery – Numbers Growing
October 10, 2018 By Deborah Damore Informed Delivery is a service offered by the United States Postal Service whereby residential consumers can view online images of physical mail that is expected to be delivered that day. Users can view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of incoming letter-sized mail pieces (not the inside contents)…
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Alliance Notes—Articles Worth Reading
October 10, 2018 Government Executive, September 17, 2018– Senate Joins House in Passing Bill to Limit Postal Service Role in Opioid Crisis WTOP, September 18, 2018– Why college students don’t vote absentee? They don’t know where to buy a postage stamp CNBC, September 18, 2018– FedEx: Amazon’s new delivery service ‘should not be confused as…
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Are Changes to Standard Mail on the Horizon?–Mailing Systems Technology
USPS REGULATIONS & UPDATES Oct. 9 2018 03:37 AM Are Changes to Standard Mail on the Horizon? By Leo Raymond An unfortunate yet chronic criticism of the Postal Service is that it seems to not understand its commercial customers’ businesses. What they do, why they do it, what their business objectives are – all that seems…
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Call to Action: Respond to the USPS Proposal on Non-Paper Based Components–Production Solutions
Call to Action: Respond to the USPS Proposal on Non-Paper Based Components PRODUCTION SOLUTIONS UPDATE (10/3/18): The USPS issued a clarification on September 20th stating that IF the rules for enclosures changes, any new requirements will not go into effect until 2020 at the earliest. The industry has done a great job submitting opposition letters and the…
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How the USPS’s Proposed Changes to Marketing Mail Hurts Customers–Quad/Graphics Leading Change
How the USPS’s Proposed Changes to Marketing Mail Hurts Customers Written by Phil Thompson on October 02nd, 2018 in All, Leading Change On August 23, the United States Postal Service filed a Federal Register with proposed changes to the definition of Marketing Mail Contents. This proposal has mailers at all levels very concerned, regardless of industry. Members of the…
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Task force’s recommendations to Trump remain a mystery–Linn’s
POSTAL UPDATES Task force’s recommendations to Trump remain a mystery September 26, 2018 06:00 PM The planned Aug. 10 release of the study of USPS finances has passed without any disclosure of what the presidential task force recommended to Trump. Washington Postal Scene by Bill McAllister Ever since President Trump ordered a commission to study…
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Congressional opposition to Trump’s postal cuts, privatization plan grows–The Washington Post
Lawmakers stand behind the “Federal agency with the highest public approval rating.” Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill want to stop a Trump administration plan that envisions a privatized U.S. Postal Service. (Brynn Anderson/AP) By Joe Davidson Columnist September 24 A hefty, bipartisan congressional coalition wants to ensure that the mail carriers who trudge through snow,…
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Postal Service Proposes to Ban Merchandise From Marketing Mail–Venable Lexology
Postal Service Proposes to Ban Merchandise From Marketing Mail Venable LLP USA September 13 2018 The U.S. Postal Service, in a major change to its eligibility rules, has proposed to exclude all merchandise from letter and flat-shaped Marketing Mail (formerly Standard Mail). The proposal, published in the Federal Register on August 23, 2018, would allow “[n]o merchandise or…
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7 Things Wrong with the Federal Register Notice on Marketing Mail Content
September 12, 2018 On August 23, 2018, the U.S. Postal Service said this to its customers in a Federal Register Notice: This proposed change would limit all USPS Marketing Mail, regular and nonprofit, letter-size and flat-size, to content that is only paper-based/printed matter; no merchandise or goods will be allowed of any type regardless of…