Postal Bulletin highlights 2021 Holiday Season

Posted on October 21, 2021October 21, 2021 by 21cpw

The Postal Service™ is putting the finishing touches on what we expect will be a very busy 2021 peak season. Our employees are hard at work installing new machinery, dusting off the holiday-themed postmarks, and preparing for the influx of holiday mailings across the country. Here are some important details to help you prepare for…

USPS: Program shows problems before they occur

Posted on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 by 21cpw

October 18, 2021 The Postal Service is bolstering its efforts to obtain, analyze, share and use data in time for this year’s peak holiday season. The organization has created the Business Intelligence Capacity Model, or BICM, a program that offers round-the-clock operational insights that show potential gridlock in the postal processing and delivery network before…

USPS seeks brief increase in package product prices for holidays

Posted on August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 by 21cpw

USPS has notified the Postal Regulatory Commission of plans to temporarily increase some package product prices for the peak holiday season. If approved by the commission, the increases will affect Priority Mail, Priority Mail Express, First-Class Package Service, Parcel Select, USPS Retail Ground and Parcel Return Service. International products won’t be affected. The temporary price…

USPS Finishes Third Quarter with Strongest Service Performance in a Year

Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 by 21cpw

July 8, 2021 WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Postal Service reported third quarter FY 2021 service performance improvements over the second quarter across First-Class Mail, Marketing Mail and Periodicals. The quarter was USPS’s strongest quarterly service performance for all mail categories since the third quarter of FY2020. Third quarter FY2021 (covering the weeks of April…

USPS releases holiday volume projections

Posted on November 8, 2019November 8, 2019 by 21cpw

The Postal Service will deliver more than 28 million packages per day from Dec. 16-21, and the organization will average 20.5 million packages per day through the rest of the year, new projections show. USPS anticipates it will deliver 800 million packages between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day — more than any other shipper, according…

OIG Blog: Attention Holiday Shoppers – A New Shipping Surcharge

Posted on July 3, 2017July 3, 2017 by 21cpw

Five months to go before the holiday shopping season and online retailers are already getting Scrooged. UPS recently announced it will levy new “peak” surcharges on packages delivered to residences between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Ground residential deliveries will cost 27 cents more per package in the last two weeks of November and the week before…