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2025 National Postal Forum Recap

2025 National Postal Forum Recap

Through the Eyes of SPC Marketers from around the country came together in Nashville, Tennessee, for the 2025 National Postal Forum (NPF) in late April. For those unfamiliar, the NPF is the mailing and shipping industry’s premier networking event with over 4,000...

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Ask Randy: USPS Updates

Ask Randy: USPS Updates

What can you tell us about the recent postage price announcement? The pattern continues of price increases happening two times a year, one increase in January and one increase in July. In January we saw an increase of 1.2% for Marketing Mail. In early April, the USPS...

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Ask Randy: Good News from the USPS

Ask Randy: Good News from the USPS

Yes, the forthcoming August 29, 2021 USPS rate increase is painful. But the USPS threw direct marketers a bone. Did you miss it? The USPS August rate case includes a size adjustment for first-class postcards. Marketers are no longer bound by the content restrictive...

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