Holidays can alter pick-up and drop dates for your commingled mail. To ensure your campaigns arrive in a timely manner, please keep in mind the following dates for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. As always, we’ll help you plan appropriately to meet your deadlines. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to your MailSmart Logistics representative with any[...]
Our clients are preparing budgets for 2019 and the question of what’s going to happen with postage rates is always a huge consideration. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has filed its annual price adjustment request with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). The rate increases need to be approved by the PRC before the implementation date,[...]
We are eagerly looking forward to honoring one of our own in just a couple of months at the DMAW’s 11th Annual Best of Direct Awards Ceremony and Holiday Party! Elise Buck, Client Services Manager at MailSmart Logistics and two-time DMAW Volunteer of the Year award winner, will be receiving the DMAW Educational Foundation Kay[...]
Attention Nonprofit Mailers: A new rule proposed by the Postal Service poses a huge threat to nonprofit postal budgets. The proposal eliminates all merchandise and goods from USPS Marketing Mail, which moving forward would be limited to paper-based, printed matter only. The biggest impact would be on upfront premium mailings containing non-paper items like tote[...]
The Labor Day Day holiday will alter pick-up and drop dates for your commingled mail. To ensure your campaigns arrive in a timely manner, please keep in mind the following changes: As always, we’ll help you plan appropriately to meet your deadlines. Please don’t hesitate to reach out your MailSmart Logistics representative, we’re happy to answer[...]
The Independence Day holiday will alter pick-up and drop dates for your commingled mail. To ensure your campaigns arrive in a timely manner, please keep in mind the following changes: As always, we’ll help you plan appropriately to meet your deadlines. Please don’t hesitate to reach out your MailSmart Logistics representative, we’re happy to answer your questions[...]
Beginning in April 2018, the USPS will begin using a new Move Update validation process. What does this mean for mailers? As you know, in order to mail to a list, the records must have gone through a data hygiene process called NCOA (National Change of Address) no longer than 95 days prior to your[...]
In this post, we share an update from the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers about the recent PRC proposal which allows increases above the CPI. It outlines the highlights of the increases as well as six things you can do to help now. From the Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers: The PRC Proposal is Simply Bad December[...]
New Rules for USPS Rate Increases Means Bad News for Direct Marketers The Postal Regulatory Commission has announced that the USPS’s current pricing system is not adequate to meet the goals of the 2006 postal law. This is bad news for direct marketers because it means postage rates will likely increase by more than the[...]
News about Informed Visibility, the New Mail Tracking and Reporting System at the USPS The Postal Service is currently launching a new mail tracking and reporting system called Informed Visibility. Here’s what you should know: The new platform consolidates the IMb Tracing, PostalOne! and MID tracking services into one single system. It also supports secure[...]
