The U.S. Postal Service has announced that it will raise its prices again on May 12, after losing $5 billion last year. This represents the second rate hike in as many years. It’s also a step toward the annual price increases the agency has predicted since it was granted greater...
Is it time to end the federal government's monopoly on using your mailbox? Perhaps you've come home to find that online purchase you've been waiting for sitting on your front stoop, out in the open. Or perhaps you got home from work to find, instead of that important document or check,...
LIBERALIZATION IN EUROPE STILL STOP AND GO GERMAN RULINGS GIVE MIXED SIGNALS Berlin court says the German postal minimum wage violates the German constitution. In an upset victory which will be appealed by Deutsche Post, Dutch mail competitor TNT won a ruling against being forced to pay a €9.80 hourly rate to...
As if taking its cues from the world of exclusive nightclubs, the U.S. Postal Service has declared that you have to be “in the know” to get the best value for your mailing dollar. Consumers who mail certain printed materials are just learning that the traditional discounted rate for “bound printed...
EUROPEAN LIBERALIZATION DELAYED AGAIN Opening of postal markets officially pushed back. A committee of the 27-member European Commission granted EC members a new two-year delay – from 2009 to 2011 for 13 countries and to 2013 for 12 new member states, along with Luxembourg and Greece – in opening their postal...