From the Washington Post: The online auction and sales site eBay, one of the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest customers, said it is shifting some of its business to private-sector rival United Parcel Service because of reliability issues with the agency. “Customers want and expect to receive their packages in the fastest and most reliable way […]
1/13/2020 The Postal Service will soon introduce eBuy Plus, an improved version of its online requisition system. The new system, which will replace eBuy2, will be more intuitive and offer a better search engine. Other features will include reusable requisition templates, budget data that is visible on requisition screens, spend data reporting, and finance numbers […]
Postage stamps, records manipulation, and a clandestine call to report suspicions. It has the makings of a good series to binge watch on a rainy weekend. Instead, it’s a recent audit report on improving the controls around stamp stock at postal retail outlets. And it started with a call to our Hotline to report suspicious […]
NEW ORLEANS – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced today that RYAN S. CORTEZ, age 46, of Des Allemands, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty Friday, February 22, 2019 to Misappropriation of Postal Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1711. According to court records, special agents with the U.S. Postal […]
12.24.14 (Reuters) – Facing a slump in the mail it had been delivering since the days of America’s Revolutionary War, in 2012 the U.S. Postal Service began aggressively targeting e-commerce and lapsed customers as the way to salvage its declining business. “Really it started almost at the level of cold-calling, talking to people who really […]
12.24.14 In October the president of U.S. operations for UPS, Myron Gray, said that if retailers exceed their shipping quotas, UPS might “mute what they are giving to us.” The company’s chief commercial officer, Alan Gershenhorn, said there could be surcharges. Asked to clarify the remarks, UPS officials said they would first work with retailers […]
12.16.14 HOUSTON (KTRK) — Over the last two weeks we’ve been telling you about delayed packages that the we uncovered at the U.S. Post Service and now we know it’s just the beginning. All of us will be seeing slower delivery times and it starts in a matter of days. Our investigation started out with […]
A local merchant says he is not having a good holiday season. The reason? Packages he’s sending are not getting delivered on time. People who make their living selling goods on eBay depend on prompt deliveries to stay in business. One man in Bryan says the U.S. Post Service is not holding up its end […]
EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – October 20, 2014 – Stamps.com® (Nasdaq:STMP), the leading provider of USPS postage online to over 500,000 customers, today announced the acquisition of ShipWorks®, based in St. Louis, Missouri, which offers monthly subscription based e-commerce shipping software. ShipWorks is a leading client-based shipping software company that provides simple, powerful and easy to […]
Watch as Linn’s Stamp News managing editor Donna Houseman discusses a few significant events in the stamp world last week and what to look for in the coming week. This week’s stories for Aug. 4, 2014, include: USPS eBay auction starts Aug. 4 Scott catalogue update for Jenny Invert error Unabomber damaged cover at auction […]