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While Postmaster General John E. Potter reportedly announced that the U.S. Postal Service would file the next postal rate case with the Postal Rate Commission as early as this month, a source inside the service said the USPS wouldn’t post the case until May or later, writes DM News.
Many mailers thought the case would be filed April 17. “That was my understanding as well,” said the source, requesting to remain anonymous. “But all I can tell you is that there was a change of plans, and that happens often when filing something as complicated as a rate case.”
This is the agency’s first comprehensive rate case in nearly five years. Many mailers anticipate a big rate increase, as the agency said it could no longer absorb high fuel and healthcare costs. This could be the last increase before Congress imposes a rate cap relating to a postal reform bill currently under discussion in conference committee.
Sprint will deliver live radio broadcasts of all NFL games, plus television broadcasts of eight Thursday night games on the NFL Network.
The radio coverage will begin Sept. 2; Thursday night television broadcasts will start Nov. 6.
Radio broadcasts include…
Hachette’s Home magazine is closing its doors, following a serious slip in ad pages in the first half of the year.
Ad pages for Home were down 31 percent in the first six months of 2008. Across the board, shelter…
Eight-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps will be featured on the front of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes and Corn Flakes boxes beginning next month, rather than on the iconic General Mills cereal that is more generally known for featuring sports greats.
The…
Timberland’s new ad agency, Leagas Delaney, has told the company that its promotion of environmental causes is distracting from its products, the Wall Street Journal reports (via Environmental Leader).
After seeing revenues decline six percent to $210 million on lower sales in…
The new editor of the Chicago Tribune, Gerry Kern, has sent a memo to staffers saying that “the experience of the news is as important as the news itself.”
The phrase is meant to offer an explanation for the changes the…
Polo Ralph Lauren will soon launch what will become one of the mobile web’s first ecommerce sites.
Polo hopes to stay ahead of a trend that is moving slowly from Asia to the United States, said David Lauren, senior vp…
