Things are looking up: The Postal Service’s financial report for January 2015

February 26, 2015 The Postal Service released its financial statement for January 2015 yesterday.  It shows that for the first four months of Fiscal Year 2015 (Oct. – Jan.), the Postal Service posted a $1.325 billion profit in Controllable Operating Income.  That’s compared to a $912 million profit for the same period last year (SPLY)….

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USPS OIG: Will The Check Be in the Mail? An Examination of Transactional Mail

RARC-WP-15-006 – 02/09/2015 By now, it’s fairly common knowledge that digital communications has cut into First-Class Mail volumes. But does this necessarily mean people always prefer to communicate digitally? To find out, we looked at the trends and customer preferences for one particular mail segment – transactional mail, which consists primarily of household bills and…

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