By John White, Association of Alternate Postal Systems The elimination of Saturday delivery, the cutting of services and employees and more postal rate hikes in 2011, all are measures that the Postal Service keeps taking or considering as it tries to carve into an expected 238 billion dollar deficit over the next decade. A measure [...] Read more »
In a paper presented at the Center for Research in Regulated Industries Eastern Conference, William Miller and Margaret Cigno of the Postal Regulatory Commission examine the potential use of profit sharing at the Postal Service. They note that the United States Postal Service has experienced record-setting losses over the past few years.that were fueled by [...] Read more »
By Glen Lombino Why should you wait until the next natural disaster before taking decisive action on how to protect and insure the global distribution of your business critical documents? Document distribution and delivery has come to a complete standstill this past week with the world’s major Post Offices, Airlines and commercial organizations bracing for [...] Read more »
For his masters thesis, John Nooyen provides a case study of the supply chain that Life Time Fitness uses to produce its direct mail. Optimizing te direct mail supply chain is important for Life Time Fitness as direct mail is the primary method of getting new customers. The case study provides a rare picture of [...] Read more »
Swift Postal has launched its Swift Kiosk solution - a self-service option for postal customers. The self-service kiosk allows postal organizations to offer their services to customers from a variety of locations - with 24/7 availability. Read more »
