New United States Postal Service Procurement Projects

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Feasibility Study The USPS seeks to identify if RFID could introduce a more passive scanning process and increase Surface Visibility (SV) scan compliance to assist the organization to achieve the goal of 100% product visibility (PV). Peak Air Transportation and Ancillary Services The United States Postal Service is seeking to purchase…

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Video: The Future of the U.S. Postal Service – Discussion Panel

March 25, 2015 U.S. Postal Service Panelists talked about the future of the U.S. Postal Service. Topics included the current health of the institution and congressional efforts to modernize and improve its financial condition.

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USPS Cost Cutting Ain’t Cuttin’ It, Mailers Group Says

February 9, 2015 From Flats Sequencing to Network Rationalization, many of the U.S. Postal Service’s recent cost-cutting programs have not been living up to the agency’s projections, a multi-industry mailers group says. Worse, the programs have shifted costs to mailers without apparently benefiting USPS, the Association for Postal Commerce (PostCom) wrote in a recent filing…

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It’s Time for Postal Unions and Mailers To ‘KISS’ on USPS Reform

The editorial below from “an anonymous PostCom board member” appeared in this week’s issue of PostCom Bulletin, the organization’s newsletter. I thought the insights about how to get postal reform moving and about the U.S. Postal Service’s governing body were worth sharing with a wider audience, so I’m republishing it with the permission of PostCom. A…

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