Sometime later this year, Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan is likely to head to Oregon for an unusual dedication. What she will be formally opening will be one of the largest mail-processing plants the United States Postal Service has created in an era of declining letter volume. The new plant, near Portland International Airport, has […]
When United States post offices opened for business Wednesday morning, May 20, all point-of-sale equipment had been reprogrammed to automatically calculate prices on customer purchases at the new postage rates. The problem is, those new rates don’t go into effect until May 31. Many sales rung up at the post office window on Wednesday, however, were […]
Marketing Officer Manabe to leave Postal Service Nagisa Manabe, chief marketing officer for the United States Postal Service and supervisor of the stamp program, told associates she plans to leave the agency May 22, Linn’s learned March 18. No announcement of the often-controversial officer’s departure has been made at Postal Service headquarters, but a source […]
Former members of the Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee’s open letter to Postmaster General Megan Brennan No reasonable economist can make a convincing argument that the out-of-sight financial crises of the Postal Service can be fixed with 49 cent stamps. Postal Service marketers who believe that are dead wrong. Yet some do. In our combined three-plus […]
Three previously unannounced stamps for 2015 have been added to next year’s United States stamp program. The U.S. Postal Service will issue commemorative stamps in early 2015 honoring the Special Olympics, architect Robert Robinson Taylor, and artist Martin Ramirez. Postal Service spokesman Mark Saunders provided these details to Linn’s Stamp News, along with updates of […]
(October 31, 2014) Since [Stephen] Kearney filled most every executive job on the Postal Service’s financial side, few people outside the agency are better qualified to write about postal finances. His Oct. 7 analysis may have turned a few heads there because he declared that “the financial and liquidity crisis that USPS management declared a […]
Susan McGowan, a public relations executive who was named head of the United States Postal Service’s stamp program in December 2012, has been replaced, a USPS spokesman confirmed Oct. 8. Spokesman Mark Saunders said McGowan was “not ousted” from her stamp position, but had been detailed to another position in the marketing department. Cindy Tackett, […]
A former member of the United States Postal Service’s Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee has endorsed former postmaster general Benjamin Bailar’s criticism of the current stamp program. Cary Brick, a former congressional staffer who left the committee last year, said in an Aug. 7 statement that he also fears marketing officials are having too much influence […]
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 […]
Former postmaster general Benjamin F. Bailar has resigned from the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee, questioning the value of continuing a panel that has guided United States stamp policy since 1957. In a letter to Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe, Bailar suggested that the committee has become overly concerned about trying to raise money for the […]