Ecommerce Industry News
WASHINGTON – As more Americans come to understand more about the operations of the U.S. Postal Service and its increasingly dire financial predicament, they are willing to let some services that the agency provides slip. […]
In 2020, when your supplies of milk and butter start to run low, your refrigerator will know to send out a call to the grocery store and, later that day, the Postal Service will show […]
The US Postal Service is trying to catch up to UPS and FedEx when it comes to providing customers with delivery status information – something that ecommerce sellers are finding increasingly important. The USPS renamed […]
Fashion shopping app Poshmark and the US Postal Service have embarked upon an exclusive partnership featuring Poshmark-branded shipping labels for their sellers. The new program, called PoshPost now features a shipping rate for buyers of $4.99 on all orders, […]
Online merchants are already challenged in meeting the expectations of shoppers who wish to get their orders delivered fast and free. Now Amazon and the USPS are adding another standard that online consumers may come […]
A man who ordered tractor parts online for over one thousand dollars has sued the United States of America and the U.S. Postal Service, claiming the USPS lost his package but refused to honor his […]
Should the USPS get into the financial services business as it searches for additional revenue streams? That’s an idea that the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG) proposed in a recent report. The OIG suggests […]
There are signs that same-day delivery may not be as winning a model as some had hoped. The USPS suspended one of two pilot programs called Metro Post due to a lack of participation from […]
Online sellers keep a close eye on shipping costs, and this week we’ve been bringing you content about the USPS postage rate changesthat took effect on Sunday. In keeping with the theme of saving time and […]
In November, the U.S. Postal Service launched a Retail Partner Expansion Program pilot with Staples, an office-products chain-store. Under the pilot program, Staples sells postal products and services at select stores in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California […]