The USPS will resume its consolidation of mail processing centers after Phase 1 saw the closure of 141 mail processing facilities in 2012 – 2013. The only positive for online merchants – Phase 2 will begin after the 2014 holiday Read more
Etsy is rolling out a new process for marking orders as shipped, an important feature for marketplaces so they know when the seller has shipped an order. One major change – the new marked-as-shipped feature will now send a notice Read more
The U.S. Postal service has a big problem: aging delivery trucks and no money for capital expenditures. The aging fleet of delivery trucks is a major concern – some vehicles are 27 years old. The USPS Office of Inspector General Read more
A spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service told EcommerceBytes that a database migration on the agency’s Click N Ship website on July 16th was the cause of technical issues that online sellers experienced, and she extended an apology to customers. Read more
Sellers are reporting major technical problems with USPS Click N Ship, a service they use to print online postage, with one avid user calling the glitches “the biggest ecommerce story of the month.” Last week, the service had an outage, Read more
The USPS pilot program to test postal counters inside Staples stores is ending next month. Postal workers had objected to the program because, while they were called “USPS counters,” they were actually manned by non-union Staples employees who were trained Read more
WASHINGTON – In January, the inspector general’s office at the U.S. Postal Service floated the idea that retail post offices could begin offering customers financial services like international money transfers and facilitating ecommerce payments. The OIG pitched its proposal as a “win-win,” Read more
As it looks to revive a deteriorating financial picture, the U.S. Postal Service has been undertaking a range of strategic initiatives in an effort to “right-size” its network and promote the digital and package-delivery services around which the agency is Read more
The United States Postal Service wants to raise prices for its Priority Mail service when purchased at the Post Office, while lowering rates for those who print Priority Mail labels online. The service is extremely popular among lower- and medium-volume Read more
The appeal of applying the wisdom, or other aspects, of the crowd has led to various concepts about “crowdsourcing” solutions. For example, companies like Uber and Lyft, which connect people needing a lift to drivers, offer an alternative to hiring Read more
