Un-Intelligent Mail: Another Bungled Postal Regulation

The latest example of the Postal Service’s regulatory two-step came Friday with the announcement of indefinite delays to “Full-Service eDoc postage corrections”—that is, denial of Full-Service Intelligent Mail barcode discounts because of alleged errors—which were supposed to be implemented on Jan. 2. The ostensible reason was “to give mailers more time to use information from a new report to help correct errors in their electronic documentation,” but there’s more to the story than that.

“The USPS needs more time just as much as, if not more so, than the mailers,” wrote Lisa Bowes, who has reported extensively on Intelligent