According to Google Maps, someone driving from Inglewood (CA) to Ft Myers (FL) at a steady 70 miles per hour would need 38 hours to complete the 2,659-mile trip.
Of course, in the world of commercial shipping, an item being sent from Inglewood to Ft Myers wouldn’t travel like that, instead taking a slower, likely longer route, perhaps through intermediate transfer points along the way.
There is still time to make the 2019 Mailers Conference.
Excerpted from the latest issue of Mailers Hub News
Although there were plenty of skeptics when the program was being developed, as well as after it was introduced on a limited basis in 2014, since it went nationwide in 2017 Informed Delivery has become very popular – perhaps more popular than even the USPS expected.
Excerpted from the May 13 edition of Mailers Hub News. Subscribers can find the full edition and archived issues here.
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In case there’s any member of the hard-copy messaging industry who’s not noticed, the traditional distinction between a “printer” and a “mailer” has been blurred – sometimes erased – in recent years as printing companies add mailing capability and mail producers buy digital printing equipment.
(Of course, both are also adding agency, marketing, fulfillment, and other services.)\
* High Costs and High Overtime: USPS Reports Challenge Insight – Commentary. Good luck making sense of the numbers.
* Advocacy Group Urges New PMG to Act on Old Challenges – Analysis. Plenty of advice without context.
* Mailer Groups Seek to Change PRC Ratesetting Proposal. More arguments against proposed changes in ratesetting.
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