Thursday, February 9, 2012

USPS Reports Q1 Loss and Other News

USPS Losses Total $3.3B in First Quarter as Mail Volumes Decline: The U.S. Postal Service ended the first three months of its 2012 fiscal year (Oct. 1 – Dec. 31, 2011) with a net loss of $3.3 billion.
 http://blogs.federaltimes.com/federal-times-blog/2012/02/08/hundreds-of-post-offices-dropped-from-u-s-postal-service-closure-list/
U.S. Postal Service list of about 3,650 post offices under study for closure? It’s now down to around 3,270.
Since the original roster was released last July, 380 facilities have quietly been given a reprieve.
The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a rule change that would allow publishers to report digital copies as paid and requested circulation. This change would allow publishers to count digital editions as part of the 50% of a publication's total circulations that must be from customers who have paid for or requested the publication.