Skip to content
21 Oct, 2025
Latest News
Walmart Hops on ChatGPT ‘Instant Checkout’ Bandwagon
Amazon AWS Outage Brings Many Websites Down
USPS Places 2-Week Hold on Unused Label Refunds
EcommerceBytes

EcommerceBytes

  • Home
  • News
    • Marketplaces
    • Payments
    • Security and Fraud Issues
    • Selling Tools
    • Shipping
    • Tax and Legal Issues
    • Trends and Shopping Data
  • Blogs
    • EcommerceBytes Blog
    • AuctionBytes Blog
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Tools
    • EKG
    • Service Ratings
    • Guides
    • Auction Calendar
    • Merchant Directory
  • Classifieds
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise
  • Home
  • USPS
  • Page 4

Tag: USPS

USPS Provides Another Update on Peak Holiday Preparedness

November 25, 2024November 25, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The USPS is “primed and ready” for the peak holiday season, it stated in a press release on Monday – and it used “exceptional service” and “extraordinary service” to describe what customers of the Postal Service could expect during the Read more

News, Shippingholiday shipping, USPS, USPS Delivering for America2 Comments

USPS Launches Ecommerce Platform ‘Santa’s Gift Shoppe’

November 18, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The USPS is launching a seasonal ecommerce platform powered by Toys”R”Us called Santa’s Gift Shoppe. The online shop is exclusively for people who wish to donate gifts for USPS Operation Santa (“letter adopters,” the Postal Service calls them). USPS Operation Read more

News, ShippingToys R Us, USPS, USPS Operation Santa, USPS Santa's Gift Shoppe

USPS to Raise Package Rates in January: Ground Advantage to Rise by Average of 4 Percent

November 17, 2024November 17, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The cost of sending Priority Mail packages will rise by about 3.2% on average beginning January 19, 2025. The generally well liked USPS Ground Advantage service will rise an average of 3.9 percent, the Postal Service announced on Friday. As Read more

News, ShippingUSPS, USPS financials, USPS Ground Advantage, USPS Rate Hike6 Comments

USPS Ground Advantage Stars in Holiday Commercial

November 7, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The USPS kicked off a new TV commercial for the holiday season on November 6, 2024, called “The Holiday Ride.” The 30-second commercial shows postal workers accepting packages in a Post Office, charging up new electric delivery vehicles, and delivering Read more

News, ShippingUSPS, USPS Ground Advantage, USPS holiday commercial, USPS TV commercial1 Comment

eBay and Others Do Not Escape USPS Peak Rate Hike

October 21, 2024October 21, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The USPS instituted a peak season rate hike that runs from October 6 through January 19, 2025, but many of those changes did not impact eBay and possibly services such as Stamps.com and Pirate Ship. But that doesn’t mean users Read more

News, ShippingeBay, USPS, USPS Connect eCommerce, USPS holiday rate hike1 Comment

USPS Publishes 2024 Holiday Shipping Deadlines

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

With 11 weeks left before Christmas Day, the USPS is preparing online shoppers by publishing holiday shipping deadlines. Those are the dates the Postal Service recommends shippers mail their packages in order to have them delivered by December 25, 2024. Read more

News, ShippingHoliday shipping 2024, holiday shipping deadlines, USPS

USPS Raises Some Online Postage Rates This Month

September 7, 2024September 7, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

Sellers who purchase postage through marketplaces or online-postage providers will pay more to send packages to certain zip codes in 1 week because of a change to USPS Connect eCommerce rates. The increase applies to weight-based and cubic packages up Read more

News, ShippingOnline postage, USPS, USPS Connect eCommerce1 Comment

Stock Up on Tubes and Bid Adieu to Another USPS Box

July 24, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS Mailing Tubes

The USPS is discontinuing the medium size tubes for shipping long narrow items effective immediately, but shippers can order them while supplies last. The Postal Service said it based the decision to stop offering the “Dual-Use Priority Mail/Priority Mail Express Read more

News, ShippingUSPS, USPS Priority Mail boxes1 Comment

USPS May Institute Zone-Based Surcharges in October

June 22, 2024June 22, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The USPS instituted surcharge fees for long and awkward packages in 2022, and this year, it is proposing changes to the fee structure. Most significantly, it wants to make surcharges zone-based, so non-standard packages shipped across the country would cost Read more

News, ShippingUSPS, USPS nonstandard fees, USPS Surcharge2 Comments

Reminder: USPS Click-N-Ship Rewards End on Sunday

June 5, 2024June 5, 2024 Ina Steiner
USPS logo

The US Postal Service ended its rewards program last year for the Click-N-Ship service and is now notifying customers that they have until Sunday to redeem any remaining credits from the program. The USPS has been contacting customers by email Read more

News, ShippingUSPS, USPS Click-N-Ship

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 3 4 5 … 44 Next


Ecommerce EKG

Archive Search

Subscribe to the FREE EcommerceBytes newsletters here.

User Admin

  • Register
  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS


buyersmarket2aaa2.JPG (7729 bytes)

Copyright © 1999-2025 Steiner Associates, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy Policy & Terms
  • Disclosure
Magazine Plus Pro by WEN Themes