The week that was: 21 October, 2011
Round up the biggest stories of the last seven days on Post&Parcel, including news of postal rates in Germany, the US and UK, and launch of a new rival to UPS and FedEx…
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GAO urges Congress to "fundamentally" change USPS model
As the US Senate pulls together a bipartisan bill to “rescue” the US Postal Service, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued a brief new report urging it to “fundamentally change” the USPS business model.
Read MoreUSPS to raise postal rates by 2.1% from January
The US Postal Service will increase postal rates for most mail services from January 2012 – but will keep within its inflation-based price cap, it said today.
Read MoreUSPS faces $642m shortfall in print media mail services
Newspapers and magazines in the United States have their postage costs subsidised by the US Postal Service to the tune of $642m a year, according to an important new report.
Read MorePostal union hires top Obama advisor to aid USPS rescue
The union representing America’s urban and suburban mail carriers has hired a former advisor to President Obama to boost its input in the reform of the US Postal Service.
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