US Postal Service Installs Barcodes in Mailboxes to Help Track Deliveries
The U.S. Postal Service is installing barcodes inside select mailboxes nationwide as part of effort to track and improve mail delivery service
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USPS: Postal Service announces unique payment and delivery solutions
The U.S. Postal Service
today announced unique enhancements to its USPS eBillPay and Priority Mail
services that tie electronic financial transactions to the Postal Service’s
traditional delivery of packages. These enhancements are a milestone in the
implementation of the original plan that was announced with the national
launch of USPS eBillPay in April 2000, and provide consumers with the ability
to send money and pay for merchandise at the time of delivery electronically,
securely and conveniently.
I Ran the Postal Service; it Should be Privatized – Henderson
William J. Henderson, the former U.S. Postmaster General, in an article that appeared in the Washington Post: “As the postmaster general until I retired three months ago, I oversaw the negotiation of the FedEx deal. And I continue to see it as an innovative solution for a Postal Service struggling to remain competitive under market conditions that have changed strikingly over the past decade. But such alliances with private business don’t go nearly far enough. What the Postal Service needs now is nothing short of privatization.”
Read MoreIntegrating physical mail with the digital world : Lockheed Martin unit uses technology to channel information about mail to the right personnel.(Lockheed Martin system integrations distribution technologies business unit.)(Interview)
In the modern world, the easiest and most convenient way to send a message is via e-mail or through sophisticated data networks. Does that portend an end to physical mail, an event that has been predicted for two decades? Not quite.
Despite the quantum leap in technology during the past decade, corporations, universities and government agencies still send, receive and process millions of pieces of traditional, expedited and packaged mail annually. In many mailrooms, manual labor and considerable resources are utilized to process parcels.
Read MoreU.S. Postal Service and LanChile stimulate US and Latin American trade
LanLogistics, a subsidiary of LanChile S.A., and The United States Postal Service announced a new partnership created to enhance trade in the Americas.
Together the two organizations will provide fast, economical and reliable shipping service from countries throughout Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean to final destinations in the United States.
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