Persons who don’t routinely monitor government affairs must have been puzzled earlier this week when, from one day to the next, the Postal Service announced it wouldn’t – then reversed course and announced it would – accept packages from China Post and Hong Kong Post. As was later apparent to the broader mailing community, this wasn’t a situation in which…
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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 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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