Over the years, Direct senior editor Larry Riggs has written about everything from the music and radio biz to discount retailing...more
The Washington Post this week editorialized that the U.S. Postal Service must take radical steps to survive in the 21st Century. It pointed to the USPS’s ever-worsening financial state and the fact that everything is moving online.
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The mailers groups and other interests which fought tirelessly for 11 years for a reform law that would tie future postage increases to the rate of inflation (as determined by the Consumer Price Index) may have outsmarted themselves, big time.
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Looks like British Lord Peter Mandelson’s grand plans to sell of a portion of Royal Mail to Dutch private courier TNT are falling apart before our eyes.
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It seems just a bit precious for four House members to sponsor a nonbinding resolution calling for the U.S. Postal Service to “take all appropriate measures” to keep delivering mail six days a week but not offering any substantial help to do so.
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Postal Regulatory Commission member Ruth Y. Goldway had a good idea on Feb. 10 when she suggested in a New York Times opinion piece that the a portion of President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan go toward helping the U.S. Postal Service convert its 219,000 vehicles–the country’s largest civilian fleet– from gasoline to electric power .
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This wasn’t supposed to happen—but it did.
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