Attention members of the commercial mail production community: You’re being pitched. After nineteen months in office, and ten months after issuing his 10-year Plan, Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is getting out of his office at USPS HQ and taking his sales pitch to the people. Actually, his Selling the Plan tour began last year; he appeared at selected USPS facilities, at…
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State Taxes: The Other Shoe to Drop
The following article has been produced exclusively for Mailers Hub by Martin Eisenstein and Jamie Szal of Brann & Isaacson. This also will be the topic of the January 18 Mailers Hub Webinar. You may have heard, indeed possibly from the authors of this article, that the US Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Wayfair v. South Dakota changed the standard for sales tax obligations for companies. In the wake…
Read MoreUSPS Service Claims Require Readers’ Scrutiny
For the last seven months of 2021, the Postal Service’s public relations office has issued weekly releases touting service performance improvements. However, a closer look at those releases suggests that, while the authors’ purpose seems to be to create a perception of improvement, that scenario isn’t supported by their own data, and shows a trend that actually isn’t as impressive as they…
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