Entries from April 2010

Monday, April 19th, 2010

A New Way to Process Credit Cards

The Truth about Credit Card Processing and How the Truth Can Set You Free – or at least save you a ton of money AMPC and Merchant Warehouse have teamed up to offer a unique program to process credit cards. Processor rate structures are often made complicated, confusing, and misleading on purpose. A teaser rate [...]

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

A Diversion from the Daily Grind

A lot of serious stuff goes across this blog, but this is not one of them. Put aside some time as it is over 16 minutes long: http://shipp.in/g/1ax

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

AMPC Comments to PRC Regarding 5-Day Delivery

Reference: Docket No. N2010-1 Request of the United States Postal Service Six-Day to Five-Day Street Delivery and Related Service Changes, 2010 Comments by Associated Mail & Parcel Centers (AMPC) AMPC is a 28 year old trade association that has represented as many as 3500 mail and parcel stores in the United States along with stores [...]

Friday, April 2nd, 2010

USPS Competition with Private Mail Boxes – An Analysis

The recent request by the USPS (Docket MC 2010-20) for moving Post Office Boxes from the Market Dominate (or USPS monopoly) list to the Competitive List has caused a great deal of concern among Commercial Mail Receiving Agents (CMRAs). The slippery slope thinking came to a peak during the deadline week for filing a comment [...]

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

USPS Request Advisory on 5-Day Delivery

If you are interested in reading the request by the USPS here it is. Should you want to comment on anything before the PRC, please keep your comments limited to the docket topic. When you comment to more than one docket or issue in the same comment, your comments to the unrelated docket or issue [...]