USPS and FedEx responded to our inquiries about reports of eBay packages being “seized” due to a policy change. Previously, sellers using eBay’s shipping label program to print FedEx Ground Economy packages (formerly called FedEx SmartPost) could give their packages Read more
eBay is raising rates for its ESE Standard Envelope offering. When the cost of a USPS First Class postage stamp goes up from 73 cents to 78 cents on July 13, 2025 (for one ounce), the cost of an eBay Read more
USPS rolled out phase one of Service Standard changes on April 1st, and it rolled out phase two on July 1st. Service standards indicate the expected number of days for delivery after a mailpiece is accepted by USPS. In April, Read more
Amazon committed to investing $4 billion to expand its rural delivery network back in April, “with a focus on small towns across the United States, to bring even faster delivery to our many millions of customers in less densely populated Read more
The USPS is temporarily suspending mail to three countries beginning June 20, 2025: Israel, Iraq, and Iran. The Postal Service said it places such suspensions in cases “where the foreign postal operator has indicated that they are unable to process Read more
The Package Shippers Association and the Association for Postal Commerce (PostCom) said in filings on Friday that they object to USPS changes coming July 13th that add significant (and ambiguous) costs to items with “non-standard” characteristics. In 2022, the USPS Read more
The USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) published the latest evaluation of the Postal Service’s Delivering for America (DFA) plan. The 10-year DFA plan was introduced in 2021 under Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (who recently stepped down and was replaced Read more
Rural sellers – including the entire state of Wyoming – may lose some precious time in getting their packages into the hands of buyers beginning April 1, according to SaveThePostOffice.com. That’s because under the USPS service standards changes, “any post Read more
Today (March 24, 2025) is Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s last day. The timing of the announcement was abrupt, but not unexpected, since DeJoy had informed the postal Board of Governors of his decision to leave last month. While he had Read more
In 2021, the USPS changed service standards for First-Class Mail changing them from 1 to 3 days to 1 to 5 days in the 48 contiguous states. The Postal Service is once again changing service standards, this time rolling them Read more
