Gamefly Battles USPS and PRC In Court Over Remedies In Discrimination Case

Documents from the GameFly Court Case: Excerpts from the Respondents Brief:  Petitioner GameFly is a company engaged in the online rental of video games. It distributes its rental games by mailing DVD’s to customers, who then return the DVD’s to GameFly in pre-addressed reply mailers. In 2009, it filed a complaint with the Commission under […]

Gamefly Says Higher Postage Than Netflix Is Costing Them $730K Monthly

Gamefly Asks PRC To Speed Up Decision In USPS Preferential Treatment To Netflix Case In April 2009 Gamefly filed a complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission stating that Netflix & Blockbuster envelopes were getting preferential treatment from USPS. Larry J. Belair, USPS senior plant manager in San Diego said in a 2010 filing to PRC: […]

Netflix Adds Streaming-Only Plan, Raises Prices For DVDs Sent Through USPS

Company is Increasing, by One Dollar a Month to $9.99, the Price of Popular Subscription Plan LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 22, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — With its members now watching more content streamed over the Internet than on discs delivered by mail, Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) today introduced a $7.99 streaming-only subscription plan in the United […]

Netflix Announces Multiple Partners to Instantly Stream Movies and TV Episodes from Netflix to the TV

Funai, Panasonic, Sanyo, Sharp, Toshiba to Provide Netflix Ready Devices LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world’s largest online movie rental service, today announced agreements with five global consumer electronics companies that will introduce Netflix ready devices later this year. The partners include Funai, which distributes the Philips, Magnavox, Sylvania […]

Postal Employee Charged With Theft of 450 Netflix Movies From Mail

Press Release from the U.S. Department of Justice : INDIANAPOLIS – Ricky L. Alsip, 53, Evansville, Indiana, was charged with theft of mail by postal employee, announced Timothy M. Morrison, U.S. Attorney, Southern District of Indiana, following an investigation by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General. The information alleges that Alsip stole approximately […]

Gamefly Accuses USPS Of Preferential Treatment For Netflix and Blockbuster

Gamefly, an online video game rental service has filed an official complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) against USPS claiming preferential treatment for Other DVD Mailers Netflix and Blockbuster . Excerpts from the complaint… A DVD is small and light enough so that, when mailed in a lightweight mailer, the combined mailpiece can qualify as […]

OIG Report: Potential Preferential Treatment Given to Netflix

From eKey Technologies Overview of USPS OIG Audit Report: The report looks at just the return portion of the disk rental process.  Using their own cost differential between automated and manual processing, the OIG says over the last two years the Postal Service has spent more than $40 million in additional costs processing the return […]