Thursday, March 31
Wednesday, March 30
Tuesday, March 29
Monday, March 28
Saturday, March 26
Friday, March 25
Small package market changes could benefit buyers
'Longtime market leader UPS has seen some of its market share taken away by growing rivals FedEx, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and DHL.'
Purchasing
Purchasing
Debate Over Postal Rates Moves To Senate Commerce?
Aviation Week suggests that the airline industry 'is lobbying to take [the Collins postal reform bill] before the Senate Commerce Committee, which is likely to be more sympathetic to the plight airlines would face should the bill make it into law.'
Aviation Daily (subscription)
Aviation Daily (subscription)
Thursday, March 24
Wednesday, March 23
USPS Releases February Financial Results.
Net income for the month was $12.2 million. Revenue was up 0.1% compared to February 2004, while expenses were up 2.7%. First class mail volume declined 2.4% compared to SPLY, while Standard increased 4.1%. There was slightly more Standard Mail in the system (at $0.19 a piece revenue) than First Class (at $0.37 a piece).
USPS web site
click here for the Excel version of the report
USPS web site
click here for the Excel version of the report
Tuesday, March 22
Nonprofit Alliance Issues 'Urgent Alert Regarding USPS Personalization Rule'
Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers web site
Monday, March 21
Saturday, March 19
Friday, March 18
Thursday, March 17
Illinois man pleads guilty to money order fraud
A man has pleaded guilty to purchasing more than 200 money orders, each with a face value of $1 or $2, at post offices in St. Louis and Southern Illinois, and altering them to read '$900.'
Alton (IL) Telegraph
Alton (IL) Telegraph
Wednesday, March 16
USPS to meet with Attorneys General on cigarette deliveries
'The U.S. Postal Service will meet with representatives of various state attorneys general on Thursday to discuss how the Service can avoid legal liability for its role in delivering cigarettes sold illegally on the Internet.'
Press release from Action on Smoking and Health
Press release from Action on Smoking and Health
Collins, Carper to Introduce Postal Reform Legislation Thursday
DMNews.com
see also the press release the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
see also the press release the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee
Tuesday, March 15
Mail Facilities Remained Closed After Alerts
Officials Investigating Three Defense Buildings
Washington Post
Washington Post
Fake IDs put cops on trail of postman
Mail carrier charged in thefts; hearing set
San Diego Union Tribune
San Diego Union Tribune
Monday, March 14
Shouldering the burden
Carriers complain of mandatory overtime, working on days off and delivering mail in the dark
Fall River Herald News
Fall River Herald News
Saturday, March 12
Benefit Bouncing Betty
Did the BOG step on a landmine with it's letter to Congress?
E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter
E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter
Friday, March 11
Hamilton P&D set to reopen
'The post office here is set to reopen Monday, 3 1/2 years after it handled anthrax-laced letters sent to Tom Brokaw, two U.S. senators and the offices of the New York Post in attacks that further heightened the nation's insecurity in the weeks after 9/11.'
Associated Press
Associated Press
Thursday, March 10
USPS Employee Statitistics Update
As of February, USPS career workforce stands at 690,301, down 14,280 from the prior year. The biggest reductions were in clerks- 10,042; mailhandlers- 1,267; supervisors- 1,117; and Area/HQ- 886. City carriers dropped by 64, while rural carriers were the only group to increase, up by 999.
Postal Rate Commission
Postal Rate Commission
NAPS: Compromise on Escrow, Military Retirement Near
National Association of Postal Supervisors Legislative Update
Wednesday, March 9
Your tax dollars at work!
'A Congressional Research Service report found that about one in eight public laws are post-office-naming bills.'
The Hill
The Hill
Eligibility Requirements for Standard Mail
Background on upcoming changes to the rules
Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers web site
Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers web site
Tuesday, March 8
Deputy PMG Nolan to Retire
Deputy PMG John M. Nolan has informed the Board of Governors that he will retire in May. Nolan returned to the USPS in 2000 following eleven years with Merrill Lynch. Prior to joining Merrill, Nolan was General Manager/Postmaster of the former New York Division. He began his Post Office career in 1970.
Monday, March 7
Forecasting Mail Volumes
'This is one of several background papers that are being prepared as part of the Pitney Bowes research for the manuscript, 'Electronic Substitution for Mail: Models and Results; Myth and Reality'. A final manuscript will be published by Pitney Bowes in 2005.'
Pitney Bowes Postinsight.com
Pitney Bowes Postinsight.com
Sunday, March 6
Friday, March 4
The Problem of Speaking Two Dialects of the Same Language
Abstract: The Postal Service and policy makers find themselves confounded by the confusion resulting from the use of two dialects of the same language based on a perpetuation of a PRC fiction that single-piece and presort First-Class Mail are both a part of one subclass, rather than two distinctively different subclasses. The matter can be resolved simply by instructing the USPS to provide its ratemaking data based on CRAs generated for every separately scheduled rate, and by giving the USPS sole authority to define what is and what isn't a subclass.
Postcom's Gene Del Polito
Postcom's Gene Del Polito
FEHBP Targeted?
'Postal Health Care in the Crosshair' is the lead article in this week's E-NAPUS Legislative Newsletter
Thursday, March 3
Wednesday, March 2
Tuesday, March 1
Two new officers named
Postmaster General Jack Potter yesterday announced the appointment of two new officers. Lynn Malcolm is Vice President, Finance, Controller. Susan Plonkey is Vice President, Service and Market Development.
Link Online
Link Online
FedEx fights disclosure of postal contract data
Traffic World reports 'In a letter that had been kept confidential, FedEx wrote to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) that releasing revenue and volume information about its lucrative postal contract would bring the carrier and the USPS "commercial harm" and would delay mail delivery.'
Traffic World posted a copy of the letter on its web site after it was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the magazine. The BTS had requested volume and revenue information on FedEx's mail carrying operation about a year ago, according to Traffic World. 'Competitors, including the airlines that have lost huge volumes of mail under a USPS management of its delivery network, want those details as they seek ways to win back mail traffic.'
The article also quotes attorney David P. Hendel, a critic of the contract, as saying 'I think the Postal Service is embarrassed about how much they are paying. They've really clamped down on any information about it. They treat it as a big success. But it actually is a very expensive proposition for them.'
The magazine identifies Hendel as 'a former USPS attorney', who later represented Emery Worldwide in its unsuccessful challenge of the FedEx contract. It also reports that the FedEx contract is the largest of any postal supplier, at $1.1 billion last fiscal year.
Traffic World posted a copy of the letter on its web site after it was released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the magazine. The BTS had requested volume and revenue information on FedEx's mail carrying operation about a year ago, according to Traffic World. 'Competitors, including the airlines that have lost huge volumes of mail under a USPS management of its delivery network, want those details as they seek ways to win back mail traffic.'
The article also quotes attorney David P. Hendel, a critic of the contract, as saying 'I think the Postal Service is embarrassed about how much they are paying. They've really clamped down on any information about it. They treat it as a big success. But it actually is a very expensive proposition for them.'
The magazine identifies Hendel as 'a former USPS attorney', who later represented Emery Worldwide in its unsuccessful challenge of the FedEx contract. It also reports that the FedEx contract is the largest of any postal supplier, at $1.1 billion last fiscal year.
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