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Printers, ACMA Head Defend Five-Day Postal Delivery: "The advantage to five-day delivery is reduction in cost, “and with the low volume it could probably be pulled off,” Landis says. The disadvantage—especially if it is Tuesday or Wednesday—would be the limited in home dates available for catalogers causing marketing strategy changes."

* I would have thought the post office would cut out Saturday service, but mid-week is an interesting idea.
* I hope the post office also consolidates distribution centers.
* Post office should have a new zone for rural, APO/FPO, Alaska, Hawaii, and US Territories. I think many package cost is subsidized for deliveries to these locations. UPS & FedEx charge more for these locations, I don't see the post office can not.

eBay Not Standing with Sellers on Paper-Payments Ban: "eBay is not supporting sellers who comply with its paper-payments ban. The seller asked eBay for help in a transaction in which the buyer said he needed to pay by check because he didn't have a PayPal account."



My advice to the eBay seller is to not report buyer questions to eBay. You run into the same questions that it is really a systematic issue and reporting individuals has very little impact. My suggestion is that eBay implement a system similar to Google's where as a buyer types in words in a form, search results for answers appear. If the word "check" or "MO" appear, then eBay can show answers about the Paper Payments Policy. That would reduce a lot of questions we have to answer that is not product related.