Looking Back, Looking Forward. We like to focus in this blog on advice and insight for our readers, but every once in a while, we’ll make an exception. We think this topic deserves that: We’d like you to know that Digital Dog Direct turned 40 this year. Yes. We are 40. We were founded in Read more…
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The Postal Service has launched a new payment processing platform called Enterprise Payment System (EPS). EPS supports multiple payment options, including mobile check deposit, offers more reporting features, and allows customers to manage multiple USPS business functions under one account. Eligible Products and Services include First-Class Mail®, Letters, Cards, and Flats, Priority Mail, First-Class Package Read more…
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The U.S. Postal Service’s first scratch-and-sniff stamps will add the sweet scent of summer to letters of love, friendship, party invitations and other mailings when the Postal Service introduces the Frozen Treats Forever stamps June 20 in Austin, TX. The stamps can be pre-ordered at this link soon for delivery shortly after the June 20 issuance. The Read more…
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It’s no secret that direct mail has been getting a lot of flak over the past few years. Whether it’s underestimating how millennials value mail or overestimating how dominant the internet has become, modern day marketers tend to discredit direct mail as an effective channel for their latest campaign. And yet, this is simply untrue—data Read more…
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The Postal Service™ recently announced price changes which will take effect January 21, 2018. These increases affect Mailing Services product prices (by approximately 1.9 percent) and Shipping Services products (by approximately 3.9 percent). For a quick reference guide to 2018 postal rates, plus a 2018 calendar with postal holidays, download this free rate sheet: Learn more about the Read more…
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With the holidays just around the corner, it seems like everybody is getting prepared for the hustle and bustle of the season—especially the United States Postal Service! In a recent press statement, the USPS announced that they are expecting to deliver 850 million packages this year, which is more than a 10 percent increase compared Read more…
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Informed Delivery by the United States Postal Service is now available in eligible zip codes. What is Informed Delivery? It is an email and online dashboard notification system that emails greyscale exterior images of the recipients’ mail that they are set to receive later that day. (Learn more here.) The service is free and only Read more…
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The Postal Service™ recently announced proposed price changes which would take effect January 21, 2018 if approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). The new prices would include a one-cent increase in the price of a First-Class Mail® Forever® stamps, postcard stamps, and metered letters. According to the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) Advisory, “Mailing Services Read more…