US MAIL TRAFFIC REPORT – NOVEMBER 28, 2022
November 28, 2022   Dave Lewis
	YUCK WITH ASTERISKS - A ROUGH WEEK FOR FLATS Thanksgiving week is a weird one.  There is one holiday and one sort-of holiday.  That’s one asterisk.  We also had a very small sample of First-Class flats – only about 27,000... Continue Reading 🠢
US MAIL TRAFFIC REPORT – NOVEMBER 14, 2022
November 14, 2022   Dave Lewis
	FIRST-CLASS MAIL MAKES SOME SLIGHT GAINS, STILL LOW ON TIME PERFORMANCE First-Class letters ticked up some percentage points, with flats at a high, as the final election mail pushes through the system.  These numbers, especially for letters, are... Continue Reading 🠢
US MAIL TRAFFIC REPORT – NOVEMBER 7, 2022
November 8, 2022   Dave Lewis
	FIRST-CLASS MAIL CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE – FIRST-CLASS LETTERS NEAR 52-WEEK LOW FOR ON-TIME PERFORMANCE In the week preceding the election, only 84.7% of First-Class letters were delivered on time, the worst performance since Christmas last year. ... Continue Reading 🠢
They’re Back! The Reemergence of QR Codes
August 22, 2022   Dave Lewis
	The QR code never really got the respect it deserves.  A few years ago, it had poor public recognition, consumers needed a special app to scan it and it was, to be brutally honest, ugly.  In the last couple of years, though, there have been... Continue Reading 🠢
A Short Course on STIDs
August 22, 2022   Dave Lewis
	What makes the Intelligent Mail barcode (IMb) so intelligent?  It is the Service Type ID (STID), the three digits that bring an IMb to life.  The other elements of the IMb are just identifiers – the STID makes the barcode DO something.... Continue Reading 🠢