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U.S. Postal Service Ready for Busiest Mailing, Delivery Days of the Year

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

December 17th marks the busiest mailing day of the year for the Postal Service, with nearly 1 billion pieces of mail entering the system, up from an average day’s volume of 703 million pieces. Americans will entrust about 275 million cards and letters with the Postal Service today, more than three times the average daily volume of 82 million.

The National Operations Center (NOC) at headquarters has been tracking mail delivery, volume, air cargo routes and weather daily since Dec. 11 and will continue working round-the-clock until Christmas Day. NOC staff, charts, systems and graphs will be essential in making Wednesday, Dec. 19, successful when postmaster, letter carriers, processing and distribution center staff and retail clerks mark the busiest delivery day of the year.

With 37,000 Post Offices and stations, 55,000 places to purchase stamps and 251,038 delivery routes within its system, the Postal Service is equipped to handle the busiest days of the year, in addition to rain, sleet and snow.

With Christmas fast approaching, the following mailing deadlines are recommended in order for holiday cheer to reach its destination on time:

– First-Class Mail (with stamps) and Priority Mail: Dec. 20
– Express Mail: Dec. 22

The Postal Service is providing a money-back guarantee that all Express Mail sent by Dec. 22 will be delivered by Christmas Day. Gifts sent by Express Mail are automatically insured for USD 100. Express Mail packages and envelopes are available online at usps.com and in Post Office lobbies across the country.

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US Christmas retail spending surpasses USD 22 Billion

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

According to the latest figures from comScore, e-commerce spending for the first 44 days of the November – December 2007 Christmas season (November 1 – December 14) showed more than USD 22 billion has been spent online during the season-to-date, marking an 18 pct gain versus the corresponding days last year. Monday, December 10 reached USD 881 million in sales (up 33 pct versus last year), registering as the heaviest online spending day of the season and the heaviest online spending day on record. However they expect things to hot up this week.

While the US seems to be calming down certain sites in the UK seem to be going into meltdown. We went to the Argos site to check on our order of IR presents at just after 2pm this afternoon and there was so much traffic it had defaulted to a message that basically said “we are experiencing heavy traffic please ring, email, text or visit the store.” Although the Monday lunchtime news featured a quite empty looking Argos packing centre, perhaps the news spurred on a whole new set of orders. Could this be the solution? Get a web cam in your packing centre and just loop a slow time in the warehouse video and “bingo” extra sales.

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DMNews debuts first DMNews/Pitney Bowes survey

Posted by | Dec 17, 2007 | |

The first DMNews/Pitney Bowes survey on direct mail and the environment suggests that consumers greatly overestimate the environmental impact of direct mail, a fact that likely colors attitudes toward the medium. Nonetheless, the survey shows that people enjoy their mail and do not want to stop receiving it — even if doing so were to benefit the environment — and that they are open to industry efforts to police itself.

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Post Office Networks Abroad

Posted by | Dec 14, 2007 | |

This information was collected as part of the background for Postcomm’s work on the future role of the UK’s network of Post Office branches. It provides a brief overview of the common issues faced by post office networks abroad and how governments and postal operators have tackled them.
Covers: Austria / Australia / Belgium / Canada / Denmark / Finland / France / Germany / Republic of Ireland / Italy / Japan / Netherlands / Norway / New Zealand / Portugal / Spain / Sweden / Switzerland / UK / USA
P:LibraryPostalPostComm Formal DocumentsPost Office networks abroad Dec03.pdf

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