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Amazon Bars Use Of USPS Delivery Service For Some Seller-Fulfilled Goods
Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - 6:35pm | 964Merchants who sell their products on Amazon.com, Inc.'s website (NASDAQ: AMZN) but manage the fulfillment and delivery of those goods cannot use the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) Priority Mail one- to three-day delivery service unless they purchase the postage from Amazon, according to several...
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Loss Of Parcel Select Business Could Hit USPS Hard, Consultancy Says
Thursday, October 3, 2019 - 10:23am | 2345The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) could experience a 32% decline in total parcel volume and a 20% drop in shipping and package revenue should three large customers take most, if not all, of their last-mile parcel delivery ...
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USPS Investigating Drone Delivery Options
Monday, September 30, 2019 - 5:08pm | 552The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) wants feedback from drone operators that could provide drone capability to the agency as it looks to advance its mail delivery fleet. In a request for information filed on September 23, USPS – an independent agency within the federal government that receives no...
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US To Stay In Universal Postal Union
Wednesday, September 25, 2019 - 5:02pm | 723Delegates of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) approved a compromise September 25 to allow the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to raise international postal rates on July 2020 to 70 percent of what USPS charges to process domestic parcels and mail, a decision that will keep the U.S. in the UPU despite...
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Proposal Floated To Allow USPS Self-Declaration Of Foreign Postal Shipments; Keep US In UPU
Friday, September 20, 2019 - 6:08pm | 1502As delegates from 192 nations gather in Geneva Sept. 24 and 25 to determine the fate of global postal commerce, a compromise has been advanced to let the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) significantly increase the rates it charges foreign postal systems for processing foreign-origin parcels and mail....
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First Quarterly Drop In USPS' Package, Shipping Volumes In Nine Years Sends Warning Flares
Tuesday, August 13, 2019 - 10:39am | 1076In February 2017, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) sent a warning about the outlook for its one consistently successful product. The multi-year growth of its shipping and package operations, USPS said in a government filing, could be jeopardized if the three customers responsible for most of the...
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US Postal Service Takes Another Billion-Dollar Hit
Friday, August 9, 2019 - 11:32am | 499The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported on August 9 a net loss of nearly $2.3 billion in its fiscal 2019 third quarter, an increase of $767 million from the same period in 2018 – and up from a $2.1 billion loss in the previous quarter – as its first-class and marketing-mail revenue continue to...
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Today's Pickup: USPS' Pension Problems May Have Long-Term Competitive Impact; Will The Cookie Crumble For CPG Companies?
Monday, July 22, 2019 - 1:17pm | 787Good day, How can FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) benefit from the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) pension-funding challenges? As many know, USPS sets aside about $5.5 billion a year to pre-fund employee retiree health benefit obligations. In a column in the financial weekly Barron's...
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Former Trucking Executive Pleads Guilty To Two Counts Of Wire Fraud In USPS Mail Contracts Case
Monday, June 17, 2019 - 10:42am | 405A former executive of a Florida-based trucking company pleaded guilty in federal court on two counts of wire fraud related to mail contracts it had with the U.S. Postal Service on Wednesday, June 12. Alexei Rivero, 46, of Miami, Florida, served as vice president of Florida Carrier & Brokerage...
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FedEx Move To 7-Day Ground Delivery Will Have Costs Before Revenue Gains
Friday, May 31, 2019 - 1:12pm | 484The boom in online buying is again forcing a big shipper to expand its service, and that's going to mean more cost. FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) announced on Thursday ground-parcel delivery unit FedEx Ground will add Sunday delivery, starting in January. The move comes just months after FedEx...
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TuSimple Revs Up U.S. Postal Service
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 11:17am | 545Self-driving truck startup TuSimple announced today that the United States Postal Service (USPS) has awarded it a contract to perform five round trips, for a two-week pilot, hauling the agency's trailers more than 1,000 miles between the USPS distribution centers in Phoenix, Arizona and Dallas,...
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Supreme Court Declines To Hear Appeal Challenging USPS Parcel Cost Structure
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 11:15am | 467The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined an appeal by UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS) of a lower court ruling that effectively validated how the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is allowed to price its parcel products and services. The Supreme Court's ruling, which was issued without comment, upholds a decision...
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US Postal Service's Sad Song Continues: Billion-Dollar Losses, Mail Weakness Offsets Parcel Gains
Monday, May 13, 2019 - 10:14am | 543For the U.S. Postal Service, the story remained much the same in its fiscal 2019 second quarter as its been for many prior quarters – gains in shipping and package revenue offset by declines in first class and marketing mail, flat to down total revenue and net losses measured in the billions...
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Stamps.com Falls 50%, Analyst Reiterates Sell Rating
Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 9:06am | 346Online postage and shipping software company Stamps.com Inc. (NASDAQ: STMP) reported first-quarter results that came in better than expected, but issued a big guidance cut. Along with management's commentary, the cut reinforces the bearish case for the stock. The Analyst Roth Capital...
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Spurned By USPS Denial To End Exclusivity Agreement, Stamps.com Takes Its Ball And Goes Elsewhere
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 1:18pm | 1127For nearly 20 years, the U.S. Postal Service and Stamps.com (NASDAQ: STMP) had a fruitful marriage of convenience. As a USPS-approved reseller, Stamps.com promoted the value of USPS' service in order to prevent business from defecting to rivals FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and UPS Inc. (NYSE: UPS)....