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DeliveryUPS Adds Peak Delivery Surcharge To Manage eCommerce Demand Amid Pandemic
Seeking to manage the overflow of cases during the pandemic, UPS is adding a new ‘peak’ surcharge similar to how they do...
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DeliveryUSPS Eyes Hikes To Last-Mile Package Delivery Fees
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has been around for more than two centuries, but it could deliver its last piece of...
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Today In DataTurning The Post Office Into A Destination
The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the biggest retailer in the country in terms of sheer size and locations, and a...
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RetailWhy The Biggest US Retailer Will Stick To Stamps
Quick: Who’s the biggest retailer in the U.S.? Not Walmart (5,500 stores). If you want to go to QSRs, it’s not even...
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Merchant InnovationUsing Digital Tech And Payments To Solve The Affordable Housing Crisis
Access to affordable housing is hard to find in the U.S. According to research from Harvard University, in 2016, nearly half of...
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Fraud PreventionDeep Dive: How Reshipping Scams Deliver For Fraudsters
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) has a warning for the public: When an offer appears too good to be true, that is...
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RetailHow Digital Tech Can Increase The Reach Of Santa And His Letters
Even in this digital age, it’s still a tradition: writing letters to Santa. And as the holiday season approaches, that letter-writing is...
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EarningsAmazon Delivery Causes USPS Shipments To Decline
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reported a decline in package shipping for the third quarter of fiscal 2019. According to a press...
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Alternative FinancesThe Problems With Postal Banking
Last week presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders and freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a lot of headlines with the Loan Shark...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsBetting On Amazon, Stamps.com Ends USPS Partnership, Shares Plunge
Stamps.com announced that it was ending an exclusive partnership with the United States Postal Service, according to reports. The company’s shares fell...
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AmazonAmazon Prompts USPS To Monetize The Mailbox
Call it the Amazon Effect — of a different sort. News has come that the Trump administration wants to boost the United States...
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Smarter PaymentsNEW REPORT: Can Smarter Payments Kill Off Timesheets?
In the smarter payments ecosystem, payments are more than simply moving funds from sender to recipient. These transactions are also about the...
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Security & FraudUSPS API Security Flaw Exposed 60 Million Users’ Data
A flaw on the website of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) reportedly exposed account data for an estimated 60 million users, KrebsOnSecurity...
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RetailAnalyst Cuts Amazon Estimates Amid Potential USPS Rate Hike
With a potential increase in U.S. Postal Service fees on the horizon, Credit Suisse Analyst Stephen Ju is reducing his estimates for...
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AmazonUSPS Eyes Shipping Fee Increase For Amazon
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) wants Amazon to pay 9 percent to 12 percent more for its shipping services. According to CNBC,...
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AmazonAmazon Forms Lobby Group To Keep USPS Services ‘Reliable And Affordable’
Amazon, along with other retail and logistics companies, announced the creation of a new group that will lobby to keep the U.S. Postal...
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Trump Wants USPS To Double Rates For Amazon
Months after President Donald Trump tweeted criticisms of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), news has surfaced that the president had personally asked...
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BankingPost Office Could Offer Retail Banking Services In New Bill
A New York senator has proposed legislation that would make retail banking services available at all 30,000 U.S. Postal Service locations nationwide. According...
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AmazonTrump’s Beef With Amazon Leads To Questions About USPS
President Donald Trump hasn’t let up on Amazon, and his recent tweets are putting an unwanted spotlight on the United States Postal...
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DeliveryDelivery Companies Struggle To Deliver The Goods Before Christmas
With Christmas one week away, delivery companies are feeling the pressure that accompanies the busiest week of the holiday shopping season. According...
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AmazonWhy Amazon Blames The USPS For Fresh Problems
So, what went wrong with AmazonFresh? That was the question on everyone’s keyboard last week when it came out that Amazon had...
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RetailPostal Service Could Deliver Seven Days A Week
To provide continued solutions in consumers’ quest for faster holiday shipping solutions, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has announced it will offer...
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What's HotAnalyst Accuses USPS Of Giving Amazon Huge Subsidy
One shipping industry watcher is accusing the United States Postal Service of effectively subsidizing the price of shipping Amazon’s packages. According to...
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Data DiveData Dive: Bottom-Line Thinking On Bottom Lines
One day, Wells may not dominate the financial headlines the way it has. But not yet. And elsewhere, suspicions are a-brewing about...
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IG Calls USPS Fleet Card Use Into Question
An Inspector General (IG) report into the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) use of fleet cards has turned up some questionable practices...
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NewsShopify Taps USPS To Streamline eCommerce Shipping
Shopify has announced a partnership with USPS to power the launch of its new shipping service called “Shopify Shipping.” “Shipping is a...
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Alibaba Inks X-Border eCommerce Logistics USPS Deal
The logistics affiliate of Alibaba, Cainiao, is working with the United States Postal Service to help accelerate delivery speeds for merchandise ordered...
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USPS Fleet In Short Supply
Logistics and delivery businesses in the U.S. are beefing up their services in preparation for the impending holiday season, a time that...
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NewsUSPS Bulks Up Same-Day Delivery Efforts
In an effort to remain competitive with other, perhaps more nimble packaging and shipment operators, the U.S. Postal Service is boosting its...
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USPS’s eCommerce Power Play
The U.S. Postal Service is transforming itself into a flexible workforce for Amazon and it may proceed with more eCommerce partnerships to...
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How eCommerce Shipping Has Been Disrupted
When the eCommerce boom hit, brick-and-mortar retail was disrupted. But the shipping and delivery business got a big boost. Two decades later,...
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Vantiv Locks In Secure Payments For USPS
The United States Postal Service has selected Vantiv, the payment processing service provider, to support payment solutions in its retail locations and...
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US House Members Want Details On USPS Competitive Practices
Members of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee want details from the U.S. Postal Service on its competitive practices to see if...
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USPS Reshaping Digital Services
The U.S. Postal Service’s ability to do near-real time tracking has made possible almost all of its new eCommerce delivery initiatives, the...
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Can E-Commerce Save USPS?
The U.S. Postal Service should be doing a better job of serving e-commerce retailers and customers, according to the postal workers union...
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NewsUSPS Records Busiest Day Ever
The USPS flew far beyond its expected performance during the 2014 holiday gift-giving season, and in the process shattered a new record...
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NewsUSPS Expands Same-Day Deliveries From SF and NYC to DC
The U.S. Postal Service is expanding its Metro Post same-day e-commerce delivery service to Washington, D.C. starting this month, ECommerceBytes reported on...
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USPS Inspector: Amazon Sunday Deliveries Wear Out Workers And Cost More Than They Should
The U.S. Postal Service’s experiment with Sunday deliveries for Amazon is attracting criticism from both workers and the USPS’s own Inspector General,...
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NewsUSPS To Deliver Groceries
The U.S. Postal Service is already delivering groceries for Amazon in San Francisco, and has now received an OK to extend the...
