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
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
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
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
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
The USPS hired Bill Fraine to align its commercial strategy with its network transformation changes, which is a controversial part of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s Delivering for America plan. Fraine was former president of GXO Logistics’ supply chain division when Read more
The USPS will pause its efforts to improve ground transportation beginning in August, citing peak season and elections, according to a letter Postmaster General DeJoy wrote to lawmakers on Monday. He sent the letter to clarify what Delivering for America Read more
Reuters reported today that USPS Postmaster General Louis DeJoy agreed to pause the consolidation of Postal Service’s processing network after mounting pressure from lawmakers. There have been a few areas around the country where consolidation efforts have led to massive Read more
It’s hard to call the Postal Service’s decision to keep many package shipping rates unchanged “good news” in July, since it’s only in recent years that sellers have had to deal with two rate hikes a year. The USPS had Read more
You can leave feedback about USPS package scans and postal theft through the USPS Office of Inspector General (OIG), which is in the process of auditing those two areas of the US Postal Service. Accurate package scanning is vital to Read more
