USPS bets on last-mile expansion to drive revenue and enable faster delivery for retailers and logistics providers
December 18, 2025
With a focus on expanding access to its last mile delivery network, the United States Postal Service (USPS) said this week that shippers of all sizes will now be able to access more than 18,000 USPS delivery destination units (DDU) across the country.
UPS and USPS SurePost relationship comes to an end, as NSA expires
January 15, 2025
On January 1, the SurePost relationship between Atlanta-based global freight transportation and logistics services provider UPS and the United States Postal Service (USPS) officially came to an end, upon the expiration of the companies’ negotiated service agreement (NSA).
USPS to end discounted rates for package consolidators starting January 1
December 5, 2024
As of January 1, USPS said it will no longer offer discounted rates through negotiated service agreements (NSA) for packages entered by consolidators at Post Office delivery units.
USPS rolls out its proposed 2021 proposed peak temporary rate adjustments
August 12, 2021
USPS officials said that this temporary price adjustment is in line with what it did in 2020, in anticipation of what it called heightened peak season package and shipping demand that often brings about extra handling costs.
Postal Service OIG report takes a long look at impact of same-day delivery and next-day, too
February 13, 2020
Even though e-commerce continues to gain more and more traction by the day, consumers ordering items online and wanting (or expecting?) same-day delivery of these online orders are not in the majority, with the exception of millenials, of course. That was a key takeaway in a recent white paper issued by the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG), which noted that “the same-day delivery of online orders is still a niche market (249 million packages in 2018, or 2% of...
