Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
The U.S. Postal Service has proposed increasing the prices to help close a projected $7 billion budget shortfall in 2011 Fiscal Year. Under the proposal the cost of a First-Class stamp 2 cents to 46 cents. Periodicals will see an 8 percent increase, catalogs rates will increase 5.1 percent and ...Friday, April 16th, 2010
I trekked to Nashville for the National Postal Forum for the first time in years and was shocked at the attendance. The Postmaster General's keynote was standing room only, more than 2,000 people. While these Forums have been larger in the past, this was quite a turnout considering the economic ...Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
The Postal Service, facing what they called "unprecedented volume declines" and a projected $238 billion shortfall over the next decade announced an aggressive plan of cost cutting yesterday. Among the items in the cost cutting plan was a bullet point to "adjust delivery days to better reflect volumes and ...Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
The Postal Service has released an industry survey regarding a reduction of mail delivery to five days: Despite very aggressive cost cutting, the Postal Service is projecting financial losses for this and the next several years. This is due to a significant decline in mail volume and a major requirement to ...Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Direct mail spending will decline 39 percent during the next five years from $49.7 billion in 2008 to $29.8 billion in 2013, according to a study released earlier this week by Borrell Associates, a media research and consulting firm. Research reports usually contain fairly measured language, but this one has ...Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Should a printing company attempt to become a "marketing services provider?" Recent posts, both here at PrintCEO and at the Digital Nirvana blog, have triggered a lively discussion about this question. Cary Sherburne's interview of Sugarbush Media Solutions' CEO Mark Parent at WhatTheyThink provides another interesting perspective on this issue. There is ...Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A couple Postal updates came out today. The first from Ben Cooper at the Print Council: Postmaster General Potter is expected to announce next week an additional delay in the implementation date of the new Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB) until November 2009. Final rules are expected in the Federal Register soon. ...
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