USPS Kudos
Last week in the mail I got this half a postcard in a plastic bag with an apology printed on it from the USPS.
USPS Idea Two
USPS division of Amazon (subsidized by the taxpayers) Delivering the mail isn’t the business it used to be. And it isn’t getting any better. The USPS has tried to solve this by becoming a package delivery business competing with Fedex and UPS. There biggest customer is Amazon and they are apparently giving them smoking prices …
USPS Idea One
On the Postcrossing website someone is advertising to sell you Solar Eclipse stamps for twice the official price. Putting aside how cleverly targeted the ad is. It appears that the post office is leaving money on the table by not trying to get some of the margin on their limited edition and specialty stamps.
Mail Service Improvement Idea
According to President Trump the USPS delivers packages for Amazon too cheaply. But the Post Office is to a large extent a fixed cost business so any additional revenue they can obtain will be beneficial. I recommended a few month ago that the Post Office be sold to Amazon. But that was a tongue in …
Postal Opportunity
I send postcards. Both electronic and actual. In this day of email, Facebook and Twitter I think that the Post Office (USPS) is a charming but expensive anachronism. It will be a financial burden to our children and to their children and there is very little we can do about it. Click here to see …
Postal Privacy
Facebook Privacy vs US Postal Service Privacy The USPS delivers junk mail (spam) They come to your house every day. They will sell your name and address to anyone. If you move they stalk you and “forward” mail So why are we so worried about Facebook’s privacy and we accept as normal the US Postal …
Postal Rate Increase January 22, 2012
Postal rates go up January 22 and the post office is being pretty quiet about it. Perhaps so that you don’t go out and stock up on forever stamps. Perhaps because nobody mails anything anymore so people don’t care. Details on the USPS web site Highlights of the new single-piece First-Class Mail pricing, effective Jan. …
Postal Rate Increase
This is a Public Service announcement: Postage rates in the USA go up on May 11, 2009 Click here to go to the USPS site for details First class postage is going up two cents to 44 cents and a domestic postcard is going up a penny. The killer for me is that overseas postcards …
Postal Effort
The postal service is in trouble. I’ve written about it before. The internet and email have critically wounded their revenue stream. The USPS will be the Amtrak of our children’s generation. But they are trying to survive and this photo shows an example of there willingness to experiment: A mobile post office on a downtown …
Free Cards With Postage
The USPS (United States Post Office) is giving away free cards with postage. http://www.poweroftheletter.com/ At the site click on the free card link. I love free postcards and this is almost as good. postcards in Bisbee The free cards are a joint marketing effort of the USPS and HBO to promote a miniseries on John …