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USPS certifies Melissa Data with NCOALink Full Service Provider License

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Melissa Data (www.MelissaData.com) has been licensed as an NCOALink Full Service Provider by the USPS (United States Postal Service). As one of only a handful of Full Service Providers, Melissa Data can update third party mailing lists and customer files against the full 48-month change-of-address file containing over 160 million change-of-address records, as opposed to the 18-month file provided to Limited Service Provider licensees.

In addition to offering full 48-month NCOALink processing, Melissa Data is the first provider to offer a 24-month processing service for the price of their 18-month service – with very low minimums so customers can affordably update small files. Faster turnarounds, increased automation and security are available to customers by using Melissa Data’s proprietary ListWare software, which extracts and formats only the fields required for NCOALink processing, then automatically merges the updated fields back into the customer’s original database.

NCOALink identifies customers who have moved, improving mail deliverability and reducing the costs and time required to forward mail. NCOALink fulfills the Move Update requirement for First-Class Mail automation and presort discounts. The Move Update requirement will also become mandatory to receive automation and presort discounts for Standard Mail in 2008. The USPS estimates that approximately 18- to 20-percent of households and businesses in America move each year. Businesses can save thousands of dollars on wasted, undeliverable mail by using NCOALink to find relocated individuals, families, and businesses.

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Google gives discount to FedEx users

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Google Inc., owner of the most- popular Internet search engine, is offering discounts to customers of its online payment service who ship items with FedEx Corp., stepping up competition with EBay Inc.

Merchants using Google Checkout can save as much as 21 percent on express shipments, which are delivered in one to three business days, Mountain View, California-based Google said today on its Web log. Smaller discounts are available for international, ground and home deliveries.

“With the addition of significant shipping-via-FedEx savings, Google now offers merchants an even more compelling reason to adopt Google Checkout,” Piper Jaffray & Co. analyst Gene Munster said in a report. He rates the shares “outperform.”

The accord follows a similar agreement last week between EBay, which has a rival service to Google’s, and United Parcel Service Inc. EBay, the world’s largest online auctioneer, decided last year it wouldn’t offer Checkout as a payment option on its sites. Last week it also reduced advertising spending with Google.

Google unveiled Checkout a year ago as part of a plan to expand beyond its Internet-search business. The company added the service in the U.K. in April.

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Harte-Hanks Is Chosen by JCPenney as Its 'Supply Chain Provider of the Year' for 2007

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Harte-Hanks, Inc., a worldwide direct and targeted marketing company, announced today that it has been awarded “Supply Chain Provider of the Year” honors by its client and leading retailer J. C. Penney Company, Inc., for 2007.

Harte-Hanks performs numerous supply chain and other services for JCPenney, among them the transportation planning and delivery management of various classes of direct mail to the U.S. Postal Service, and that of retail circulars and inserts to newspapers across the country. Harte-Hanks manages its logistics organization from its Deerfield Beach, FL, offices, with facilities nationwide.

At a recent JCPenney event honoring its vendors and suppliers, Harte-Hanks and its logistics team members were cited by the retailer for their dedication, advocacy, results focus, can-do attitude and problem-solving

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Letter Carriers Set July 1 Picketing in New Jersey to Oppose 'Contracting Out' by Postal Service

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Members of Paterson Branch 120 of the National Association of Letter Carriers will engage in informational picketing on Sunday, July 1, at the Paterson Post Office to protest a growing policy of the U.S. Postal Service to contract out to private firms and individuals the delivery of mail in urban and suburban areas, the postal union announced today.

NALC Branch 120 President Joseph Murone said the Paterson demonstration is one of many planned throughout the nation to bring attention of the public to this new policy that will diminish service to postal customers and endanger the future viability of the Postal Service.

The NALC’s effort to fight privatization of mail delivery has gained strong support in Congress. Sen. Tom Harkin (news, bio, voting record) (D-IA) has introduced legislation (S. 1457) to outlaw most contracting out, and in the House of Representatives, Rep. Albio Sires (news, bio, voting record) (D-NJ) has authored H. Res. 282 which would condemn the practice and urges the Postal Service to halt the practice immediately. The entire New Jersey House delegation has joined as cosponsors of the Sires resolution.

The NALC represents 298,000 active and retired letter carriers of the U.S. Postal Service is all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions.

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Technology keeps reshaping Postal Service

Posted by | Jun 19, 2007 | |

Q. A Sebastian resident would like to know why the Post Office has changed its hours, closing earlier than it had in the past.

A. The U.S. Postal Service is an independent government agency that relies on postage and fees to fund its operations. It is legally defined as “an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States,” therefore, it is wholly owned by the government and controlled by appointees and the Postmaster General.

There are 11 members of the board that oversees the USPS, nine of which are appointed by the president of the United States. The presidential appointees then select the postmaster general or chief executive officer, who oversees the day-to-day activities of the service, and those 10 members then nominate a deputy postmaster general of chief operating officer.

There is a statutory monopoly on delivering non-urgent letters, but the USPS faces competition for package delivery services. Interestingly, the USPS does not have to make a profit, it merely has to break even, which it has continually done since 1984, says Joseph Breckenridge, USPS spokesperson.

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