If you want to see dramatic, visual evidence of what the new “First Class” service standard would mean for U.S. mailers, go to https://ribbs.usps.gov/index.cfm?page=modernservice, click on Service Standards Maps, then enter your Zip Code. For Seattle 98101, Tacoma 98401 and the state capital of Olympia 98501, everything going to the northwestern part of Washington state […]
Husch Blackwell’s Postal Service Contracting practice group today released its list of the top 10 U.S. Postal Service suppliers for fiscal year 2011. For the ninth straight year FedEx claimed the No. 1 spot. Another air carrier, Kalitta Air, Inc., which transports military mail bound for Iraq and Afghanistan, claimed the second spot. The list is […]
From Pitney Bowes: I couldn’t help but think about this as I read Thomas Sowell’s attack on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) on the website of the New York Post. His arguments are based on only the most superficial interpretations of the market for sending physical information and goods from one place to another, and […]
Some UPS customers said the U.S. Postal Service and Fed-Ex had no problems delivering their packages these past few days. Thousands of people in the metro area will open their presents a little late this year because the day started out with 50,000 packages in limbo at the United Parcel Service holding facility in Commerce […]
FedEx SmartPost is an arrangement with the USPS where USPS does the last-mile delivery to the customer’s residence. MEMPHIS, Tenn-FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) expects to move more than 17 million shipments – almost double its daily average volume – through its global networks on December 12, the projected busiest day in company history. The 10 […]
“PMG Pat Donahoe appeared recently on “The Kudlow Report,” to represent the Postal Service’s position on the need for congressional action to address the USPS requirement to pre-fund retiree health benefits, frequency of delivery and allow the Postal Service to access overpayments to the Civil Service Retirement System and Federal Employees Retirement System. Donahoe explains […]
Recently, Congressman Dennis Ross wrote on his Facebook page that 80-82% of USPS operating costs is labor. Normally, estimating figures in a public forum is no problem. But when the Chairman of a House Subcommittee covering the U.S. Postal Service starts doling out numbers they should be accurate and not pulled out of thin air. […]
In an editorial by the Concord (New Hampshire) Monitor they wrote: The postal service has since the 1980s operated as an “independent establishment of the executive branch” and, as such, is expected to be self-supporting. For the most part, it is. But in exchange for its monopoly on first and third-class mail, it is charged […]
FedEx transports Express, Priority and First Class Mail, and earned postal revenues of $1.373 billion (corrected) in fiscal 2010. While at the top of the list, FedEx’s postal revenues declined from a high point of over $1.6 billion. Another postal competitor, United Parcel Service (UPS) , is the Postal Service’s 12th (corrected) largest postal supplier, […]
Census Bureau Selects FedEx Over USPS In barely a month, the Census Bureau will begin sending states details collected in the 2010 Census, enumerating inhabitants down to the block level. But in a theatrical touch, the data will be delivered overland to the states the day before it’s made public, mostly via Federal Express.”They’ve got […]