November 22, 2021 With the holiday peak season around the corner, the Postal Service has created a chart to help employees quickly sort out the requirements for First-Class Package Service-Retail and First-Class Package Service-Commercial parcels. The one-page chart details the similarities and differences between the products. For instance, the maximum size for a for First-Class…
The Postal Bulletin’s latest edition highlights an inevitable part of holiday gift giving: returns. USPS expects to deliver 750 million packages during the holidays, up 12 percent from last year. After the holidays, many gifts inside those parcels will be returned. The cover story details how the Postal Service is positioned to be the “returns…
In a memorandum to all Local Presidents, NPMHU President Paul Hogrogian and CAD Manager T.J. Branch disseminated information relative to the NPMHU’s National-level grievance over the possible subcontracting of sorting and processing Non-Machinable Outside (NMO) parcels. As set forth in the attached agreement, the NMP pilot test has ended; the NMO parcel operation is back…
By Leah Kirstein – December 20, 2015 YORK COUNTY, Pa – This holiday season the US Postal Service expects to deliver a total of approximately 15.5 billion pieces of mail. Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve, they expect to also deliver over 600 million packages. For the second year in a row, they are delivering…
The Postal Service is testing new, larger mailbox designs that can handle more than 70 percent of the packages sent through the mail. As the mail mix continues to change — with fewer letters and a growing volume of packages — customers often find their mailbox is stuffed to overflowing. Many parcels won’t fit in…
(KGO) – The United States Postal Service is looking to secure legislative funding for new mail trucks. Gus Ruiz with the San Jose Postal Service branch says that the trucks the service uses now are outdated. He said, “on any given day we have 214,000 vehicles on the road at one time delivering mail. Those…
Dim weight. Sounds like something you might call your not-so-smart cousin. It’s actually a way to price parcels based primarily on how much space they take up during transport and delivery. FedEx is the first major carrier to announce plans to charge prices based on the dimensional weight of all its ground shipments. Retailers and…
Published on Jun 5, 2014 Each day the United States Postal Service processes hundreds of millions of pieces of mail and delivers to over 150 million addresses. At the center of this bustling postal network are more than a hundred Processing and Distribution Centers spread across the United States. Follow these letters, catalogs, magazines, and…
