The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has proposed adding a surcharge for fuel and other transportation costs to some of its products for shipping packages. The proposed price change would add 8% to the base postage prices on Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage...
Amazon’s status as the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customer could be about to change. The tech giant has begun to scale back the volume of packages it ships via the postal service (USPS) with the goal of reducing that number by at least two-thirds before its contract expires...
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is now taking bids for access to its last‑mile delivery network. The federal mail carrier service announced Tuesday (Jan. 20) that it had launched an online bidding website to accept proposals for entry to the delivery network. Upwards of 18,000...
The United States Postal Service (USPS) plans to make its last-mile delivery service available to shippers of all sizes. After offering a limited number of very large customers delivery service direct from its 18,000 delivery destination units (DDUs) for years, USPS will soon begin accepting bids from all shippers, it said in a...
January 16, 2020
Access to affordable housing is hard to find in the U.S. According to research from Harvard University, in 2016, nearly half of renters were cost-burdened — or spending more than 30 percent of their annual incomes on rent and utilities. In 1960, that figure was at 20 percent. According to National Low Income Housing Coalition […]
December 13, 2018
Call it the Amazon Effect — of a different sort. News has come that the Trump administration wants to boost the United States Postal Service’s (USPS’) revenue, and has taken aim,...
April 17, 2017
One day, Wells may not dominate the financial headlines the way it has. But not yet. And elsewhere, suspicions are a-brewing about how fleet cards are managed, at least within...
April 06, 2026
Amazon said Monday (April 6) that it has reached a new deal with the United States Postal Service (USPS) in which the postal agency will continue to make 80% of the package deliveries it currently makes for the retailer, Reuters reported Monday. In March, Amazon threatened to cut two-thirds or more of the package deliveries currently made by […]
March 25, 2026
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has proposed adding a surcharge for fuel and other transportation costs to some of its products for shipping packages. The proposed price change would add...
March 18, 2026
Amazon’s status as the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customer could be about to change. The tech giant has begun to scale back the volume of packages it ships via the postal service (USPS)...
January 20, 2026
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is now taking bids for access to its last‑mile delivery network. The federal mail carrier service announced Tuesday (Jan. 20) that it had launched an...