The U.S Postal Service pulled out all the stops to avoid a repeat of the 2020 holiday shipping disaster, and it worked. The Postal Service and several other private shippers reported that holiday season deliveries went smoothly for the most part. ShipMatrix, which analyzes shipping package data, reported that 96.9% of the...
The Postal Service is telling its employees to think twice before posting about work online. USPS is reminding employees and contractors to avoid speaking on behalf of the agency through social media unless authorized to do so. USPS said its policy doesn’t prevent employees from having a social media presence,...
Devin Dunn was on paternity leave when a package was swiped from his porch in Salt Lake City’s Liberty Wells neighborhood earlier this month. In fact, he was sitting in the front room, tending to his new baby. The carrier had set it down without knocking on Dunn’s front door. After...
Data recently issued by ShipMatrix, a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based SJ Consulting showed varied on-time performance (OTP) ranges, for weeks 47 through 49 of 2021 and including Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday, from November 14-December 4), for major parcel carriers, including UPS, FedEx, and the United States Postal Service (USPS). ShipMatrix President Satish...
A federal appeals court has rejected the efforts of commercial mailers to knock down a new postal pricing plan that they complained will lead to increased stamp prices. The Nov. 12 ruling by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upholds a plan...