The article below was written by Dave Lewis for the SnailWorks September newsletter, and reprinted with permission. When you are looking at USPS service performance a week at a time it can be hard to detect trends. You really need to step back and look at larger time spans to get some definition. SnailWorks began measuring aggregate data in May…
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The following article was provided by Deborah Damore, Director, Postal Affairs, Enru Logistics & Postal Optimization. Enru is a Mailers Hub Cornerstone Sponsor. There are multiple facets to the Postmaster General’s 10-Year Plan, each having an impact on costs, revenue, employees, and USPS customers. The part of the plan causing some angst this month is resulting from Network Transformation. The…
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Sometimes it might be better to retain a working process rather than implement something else. The article below is a report from one of our subscribers, and illustrates a situation in which a practical ad hoc solution was ended simply because it wasn’t “official.” If only the Postal Service would operate like a business! Here is the perfect example of…
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This article was produced by Merry Law, Mailers Hub’s expert consultant on international mail. Merry may be reached at MLaw@WorldVu.com The US Congress has a long history of passing bills related to the USPS. The Postal Service Reform Act (PSRA) of 2022 was the first to pass Congress since the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), passed in 2006. (Congress…
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This article was produced exclusively for Mailers Hub by Stacy O. Stitham and Adam Mooney of Brann & Isaacson. We could easily fill an entire volume about copyright law, with a second devoted to trademark topics. With much less space and time at our disposal, we will focus on a few niche areas that may have particular relevance to a…
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This article was produced by Merry Law, Mailers Hub’s expert consultant on international mail. Merry may be reached at MLaw@WorldVu.com. The electronic world has been unkind to at least one post, as demonstrated earlier this month. Ransomware Royal Mail, the UK’s designated postal operator, was hit with a ransomware attack on January 10 or 11, stopping their ability to send…
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This article was produced by Merry Law, Mailers Hub’s expert consultant on international mail. Merry may be reached at MLaw@WorldVu.com. The Universal Postal Union’s administrative bodies, the Council of Administration (CA) and the Postal Operations Council (POC), met in their regularly scheduled quarterly meeting in late October. In addition to the usual meetings, a one-day conference on opening further to…
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This article was produced exclusively for Mailers Hub by Stacy O. Stitham & David Swetnam-Burland of Brann & Isaacson. The firm is the Mailers Hub recommended legal counsel for mail producers on legal issues, including tax, privacy, consumer protection, intellectual property, vendor contracts, and employment matters. In June 2021, we published an article advising our readers about three states that…
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This article was produced exclusively for Mailers Hub by Martin I. Eisenstein and Jamie Szal of Brann & Isaacson. Brann & Isaacson is a boutique law firm that represents large and small online and multichannel companies, printers, commercial mail producers, and IT service providers located across the country. The firm advises companies of all sizes, including many in the Internet…
Read MoreOur guest editorial is by Dave Lewis, president of SnailWorks, a Frederick (MD)-based provider of mail tracking services. Dave is a veteran of the mail production industry and an MTAC representative for Mailers Hub. If you don’t already subscribe to Informed Delivery at home, you really should. You will see things you cannot see in the mail – they are digital-only…
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