Michael Ravnitzky, chief legal counsel to US Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) chairwoman Ruth Goldway, presented the following paper in June 2010: “Offering Sensor Network Services Using the Postal Delivery Vehicle Fleet”.
Today, ePostal News has commented on Mr. Ravnitzky’s paper in a rather entertaining fashion and pointed out the lack of connection to the postal core business. In fact, the ePostal News article humored us enough
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Archive for category Opportunities for USPS
Announcement: It's vacation time, again. We will be back by begin of October. Thanks for your readership and patience.
There is a lot of upset in the U.S. mailing community over the proposed USPS rate increases. Especially high volume mailers are trying to fight this and have now declared war on USPS under the umbrella of the newly founded Affordable Mail Alliance. There are calls for USPS to become more efficient and to address
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Some reports on the Internet indicate a new “unofficial” USPS procedure regarding Click-N-Ship labels.
We quote: from blog.jseaber.com:
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Last Monday, I stepped into a local post office and handed 6 postage-paid, domestic packages to the postal clerk. She looked over each, then stated, “These 5 cannot be shipped. They have the wrong date.”
As usual, I’d used PayPal’s
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Last week, USPS Board of Governors Chairman Louis Giuliano discussed the Postal Service’s 10-year action plan with major business mailers from across the country.
We quote from the USPS news release
I also believe that when it comes to further revenue growth, there’s a vital role to be played by Intelligent Mail Barcode applications. We believe IMb
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Not many people know that USPS already offers a hybrid postcard service. So far it is just a little niche product, but with potential for growth. We take a look at Austria Post AG, which has taken the idea of hybrid postcards a step further.
The Austrian Postal Service launched “e-Postkarte” (e-Postcard). e-Postkarte is a
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To answer this question right away: We don’t know.
But USPS, in its infinite wisdom, may have reasons not to do so.
Now, if you are wondering what a (Solar) Power Purchase Agreement is, you can find a short overview here.
Unlike USPS, other public institutions have come to realize the advantages of (Solar) Power Purchase
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We updated the table as follows:
Version 1.4: (May-13th-2010)
Added Apartado Postal Electronico / Spain
Added SafeMail /Ireland
The newest version of the table can be downloaded here.
Services listed in table are:
Apartado Postal Electronico / Spain
SafeMail /Ireland
Mein Brief.atRaiffeisen / Austria Post,
CertiPost, Belgian Post Group (BPG) and Belgacom,
Bermuda Postal Service,
EPM Canada Post,
ePost, Canada Post,
Cayman Islands Postal
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USPS can go green and lock in the price of electricity for up to 20 years. And all that without any upfront capital cost.
Such an arrangement can be made possible through a “Solar Power Purchase Agreement” (SPPA), which is a newer business model. Under a SPPA, USPS would allow a solar service provider to
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In our last post we ended up joking around that USPS could start it’s own lottery. For some reason this preposterous idea stuck in our heads and we started juggling some numbers in a spreadsheet. A couple hundred million dollars in revenue may be quite possible. Not too bad. We seriously doubt that USPS can
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Some time ago we had to mail an important document and went to our local post office around 3pm, expecting to get in and out within a few minutes. As we entered we found 22 people, already in line, and ended up waiting only 45 minutes, since four persons in front of us just gave
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zumbox vs. NoMorePost
Oct 27
zumbox and NoMorePost are providing paperless mail services and are starting to compete with conventional delivered paper mail. NoMorePost is based in the UK and zumbox is based in the US.
We made a first short comparison between zumbox and NoMorePost and here are our impressions:
Web Page:
Both companies need an informative and easy to navigate
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zumbox and “junk mail”
Oct 13
The zumbox website indicates that zumbox will not only send bills and statements, but also direct marketing mail, which the public commonly refers to as junk mail. Direct marketers like to use paper “junk mail” for it’s high visual impact and the resulting response rates. One reason for the high visual impact, is the low
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