USPS Expands American Express Gift Card Program

To give customers greater convenience and generate new retail revenue and cash during the holiday shipping season, the Postal Service will expand the American Express Gift Cards sales program to an additional 3,000 Post Offices starting this week. With the expansion, customers now will be able to purchase and mail gift cards at nearly 5,000 […]

Gift Cards On Sale At Select Post Offices Starting Today

Customers can now purchase gift cards — “the most-requested holiday gift” — at more than 1,800 Post Offices beginning today. The new line of “open-loop” gift cards — redeemable at any merchant that accepts the card brand — is part of a two-year market test and is being sold at Post Offices that also sell […]

PRC Approves USPS Request To Sell ‘Gift Cards’ At Post Offices

The Postal Regulatory Commission approved USPS’ request to market test gift cards. PRC said in its decision that “Based on the record before it, the Commission finds that the proposed Gift Cards product is a postal service and that the market test is consistent with 39 U.S.C.3641. The Postal Service shall file results of market […]

Food Market Institute Urges PRC To Cancel USPS Request To Market Test Gift Cards

In January of this year, the Postal Service notified the Postal Regulatory Commission that it intends to conduct a market test of  Gift Cards. USPS said, “This product will provide postal customers with the ability to purchase a card loaded with a specified sum of money, which can be sent as a gift through the mail. […]

USPS To Sell ‘Gift Cards’ At Post Offices

The Postal Service has given notice to the Postal Regulatory Commission  it intends to conduct a test of an experimental product: Gift Cards. This product will provide postal customers with the ability to purchase a card loaded with a specified sum of money, which can be sent as a gift through the mail. The test […]