Ecommerce Industry News
President Biden nominated two people to the USPS Board of Governors on Friday, one of them with some ecommerce chops. Derek Kan currently oversees business operations and strategy for Deliverr, which is a fulfillment service […]
Shipping carriers are recruiting workers to help process and deliver packages during the holiday shopping season, and even the United States Postmaster General is lending a hand to recruitment efforts. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy visited […]
This summer, the U.S. Postal Service is set to begin an ambitious trial program that will invite online sellers and other shippers to access its network directly for speedy local and regional package deliveries. Senior […]
A politician quipped, “There’s no DeJoy in the Post Office tonight,” after Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced his 10-year plan to revive (rescue?) the US Postal Service on Tuesday. The US Postal Service also announced […]
The US Postal Service said mail delivery has improved to levels prior to the peak 2020 holiday season and subsequent 2021 winter-storm disruptions. However, it’s nothing to write home about. For the week of March […]
The USPS implemented surge-pricing during the 2020 holiday season that helped it grow revenue in the last three months of the year – its first quarter of fiscal year 2021 ending September 30. The US […]
The USPS kept the mail moving during the early stages of the pandemic. That’s the finding of the Office of Inspector General (OIG), which announced the findings of an audit on Monday. The OIG said […]
The stimulus package was signed into law on Sunday and, as PostCom reported, includes a provision that converts $10 billion in borrowing authority for the Postal Service to a “grant” that will not require prepayment […]
The USPS was already seeing declining Mail and increasing Package volume, and in the second half of its fiscal year 2020, it saw those trends accelerate due to the pandemic. The US Postal Service reported […]
The US Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) announced today a report it issued that shows poor execution on the part of postal management. “The Postal Service’s implementation of operational changes and initiatives in […]