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The United States Postal Service Board of Governors held an open meeting on May 9th, 2025. They highlighted the Postal Service’s 250 years of operation and the current economic challenges, including cost control, revenue growth, and infrastructure modernization.

David Steiner Appointed 76th Postmaster General

From the USPS Corporate Affairs Website Postal Service Board of Governors appoints David Steiner to be 76th Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors today announced that they have chosen David Steiner to...

Stamp Out Hunger with the USPS Annual Food Drive

USPS annual food drive is schedule for Saturday May 10th, 2025. The event which began in 1993 is the country’s largest single-day food drive.

GrayHair Software Launches New Website

Check back often for links to new stories, white papers and mailing resources. Please drop us a note with any feedback on how we can improve our efforts to support you.

USPS Informational Webinars on Service Standard Changes

The new service standard changes took effect April 1st, 2025.  The new measurement is using a 5-D to 5-D versus the less granular 3-D to 3-D.  Phase one of this change will be adding in an additional day into single piece First-Class mail that is entered more than 50 miles from an origin Regional Processing and Distribution Center (RPDC) and non destination entered Marketing Mail and Periodicals. 

New Mailing Standards for Domestic Mailing Services Products

The Postal Service, published on May 1st  in the Federal Register a proposed rule for the structure changes as part of the proposed July 2025 postage increase.  A final rule will be published once the Postal Regulatory Commission approves the R2025-1 Market Dominant rate change.  

Search for a new Postmaster General (PMG) – could the wait be over?

This is the first National Postal Forum in my recollection in which we did not have a permanent Postmaster General (PMG) in office.  There have been transitional periods in USPS leadership – such as when acting PMG is in place due to retirement, resignation, or before a successor is officially named, but historically that replacement has been named prior to the NPF.  

Takeaways from the National Postal Forum 2025

Last week concluded a very successful National Postal Forum in Nashville, TN. GrayHair participated in six sessions at the forum on topics of Address Quality, Hot topics in Mail, Bridging the Gender Gap with leadership tips, and working with Postal and Client Data at Scale.  

Upcoming Industry / Postal Events

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Defining the “Perfect” Mailing Address

Defining the "Perfect" Mailing Address A well-designed address database is the bedrock of address quality.What exactly constitutes a “perfect” address? It might seem like a simple question, but the answer is more nuanced than you might think. The concept of a...

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Business Ready Intelligence and Insight – Across the Organization

Access to detailed mailpiece data provides actionable insights that can be leveraged across different departments, driving operational excellence, and maximizing organizational effectiveness.

Leveraging Postal Data Across Your Organization

Fraud

Understand anomalies that could indicate a mail theft-related event, including when high-value mail is redirected to a new address and when delivery is not progressing in the time frame it should.

Marketing

Marketers use mail delivery data in their coordinated multi-channel campaigns by connecting physical and digital channels, thus generating a higher overall campaign response.

Informed Delivery

Marketers can see who specifically is engaging with their Informed Delivery programs to use for attribution and future prospect segmentation and targeting.

Call Center

Efficiently respond to customer issues and inquiries. Call center representatives gain access to mail piece delivery data and the ability to identify the location of a piece, reducing overall time and cost when serving a client.

Remittance Operations

Monitor incoming mail to help staff remittance operations and manage cash flow. GrayHair provides the monitoring and identification of incoming payments, including mortgages, payments, critical documents, and more.

Return Mail Operations

The USPS Secure Destruction is a program that allows mailers to reduce their dependency on return mail facilities, as the USPS will securely destroy undeliverable mail. Mail piece data is received quickly and pushed to the mailer immediately, rather than waiting for the physical undeliverable mail piece to be returned.

Client Experience

Using delivery event data to let clients know about the arrival of their mail pieces proactively. This generates a higher level of customer satisfaction and reduces questions and issues.

Compliance

For insurance companies, reducing USPS Certificate of Mailing service costs by providing USPS acceptance data for policy cancellation notifications leveraging the Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMb).