2011 Netcasts

• PostCom Postal Podcast 10.11.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, PostCom Executive Vice President Jessica Lowrance, and Postal Services Consulting President Kathleen Siviter in a discussion of some of the discussions and decisions that took place at last week's meeting of the Board of Directors of the Association for Postal Commerce.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 09.12.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Grayhair Software Vice President of Postal Affairs Angelo Anagnostopolous and Grayhair Software Director of Solution Strategies Paula Stoskopf in a discussion of how mailers can best deal with the news about post office closings and consolidations, worker layoffs, reduced days of delivery without losing sight of their mailing goals.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 08.08.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Postal Regulatory Commission chief counsel to the chairman Michael Ravnitzky in a discussion about governments' use of mail.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 06.12.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Grayhair Software Postal Affairs Vice President Angelo Anagnostopoulos, Pitney Bowes Engagement Manager and Solution Design Consultant Adam Collinson, and Pitney Bowes Director of Consulting Solutions Jeff Stangle in a discussion of addressing change services. This podcast is sponsored by Grayhair Software.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 04.21.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Grayhair Postal Affairs VicePresident Angelo Anagnostopoulos, and Grayhar Director of Analytic Services Everette Mills in a discussion of service performance measurement using the best available postal data and tools.
  There are slides that accompany this presentation. You can find them on this site. Slide One | Slide Two | Slide Three | Slide Four
• PostCom Postal Podcast 04.11.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Goldway in a discussion of a number of wide-ranging topics including: the PRC's recent five-day decision, and Annual Compliance Determination, the PRC's complaint process, difficulties with service performance measurement, and more.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 04.07.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and John Callan, President & CEO, Ursa Major Associates, in a discussion of the June 15, 2011 conference on the future of the postal service.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 01.28.11
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and the members of the PostCom Package Services Workgroup (Wendy Smith, Carol Kliewer, John Medeiros, and Richard Porras) in a discussion on
  "What’s the Strategy/Rationale Behind the Proposed Standard Mail NFM/Parcel Increase … Or is There Any?"

2010 Netcasts

• PostCom Postal Podcast 12.03.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Postal Regulatory Commissionn Chairman Ruth Goldway in a discussion of  recently introduced postal legislation and other postal issues.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 11.12.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Quad-Graphics Postal Affairs Director Joe Schick, and Harte-Hanks' Vice President of Postology Charles Howard in a discussion of  Standard Mail service. How it's measured? How it performs? And what you need to know to make the best of what the Postal Service offers.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 11.02.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Michael Ravnitzky (Chief Counsel to the Chairman of the Postal Regulatory Commission) in a conversation regarding the potential value-added uses of the Postal Service's vehicle fleet assets. For more information on this topic, check out the following URLs:http://tinyurl.com/PostalSensorPap er and http://tinyurl.com/PostalSensorSl ides
• PostCom Postal Podcast 10.22.10
  Join PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, Lisa Bowes, Manager, Account Services, Intelisent, Angelo Anagnostopoulos, Vice President, Postal Affairs Grayhair Software, and Phil Thompson, Manager, Postal Systems, Quad Graphicsin a discussion of  "Here Comes Full-Service ready or not."
• PostCom Postal Podcast 09.16.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Grayhair Software Vice President for Postal Affairs Angelo Anagnostopoulos and Grayhair Software Vice President for Product Development Raymond Chin in a discussion on managed services for mail users.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 08.13.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Postal Consulting Services President Kathleen Siviter in a discussion of some of the key items of note from the most recent meeting of the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee
• PostCom Postal Podcast 08.09.10
  Join PostCom's Gene Del Polito, PostCom's Jessican Lowrance, Williams-Sonoma's James West, and International Masters Publishers' Brendan Sheehan in a discussion of the Postal Service's exigency case, and how the Postal Service's proposal will affect the businesses of companies that historically have used mail for business development and transactions.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 04.13.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Jerry Cerasale (Senior Vice President, Governmental Affairs, Direct Marketing Association), and Tony Conway (Executive Director, Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers) in a discussion about some new business ideas, the likelihood of an exigency postal rate increase, and prospects regarding collective bargaining and binding arbitration.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 04.12.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Grayhair Software Vice President Angelo Anagnostopoulos in a discussion of mailing and Software as a Service (SaaS).
• PostCom Postal Podcast 04.01.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, and Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association Postal and Member Services Vice President Leo Raymond in a discussion of  the Postal Service's request for five-day mail service and its proposal to Congress for postal reform.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 03.10.10
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, Postal Consultant Kathy Siviter, and Mailing & Fulfillment Association Vice President Leo Raymond in a discussion of "The Postal Service's Plan for the Future"
• PostCom Postal Podcast 03.08.10

Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Valassis Senior VP for Governmental Affairs Vincent Giuliano in a discussion on "It's Time To Stop Stealing Postal Customers' Money"

2009 Netcasts

• PostCom Postal Podcast 12.08.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, and U.S. Postal Service President of Mailing and Shipping Services Robert Bernstock  in a discussion of  the Postal Service's plans to develop its mail and package delivery services.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 12.02.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Grayhair Vice President of Postal Affairs Angelo Anagnostopoulos, and Grayhair' Director of Client Services Therese Powers in a discussion of  service type IDs in conjunction with the Intelligent Mail program.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 11.12.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and The Bennett Group President Mary Ann Bennett in a discussion of the trials and travails of complying with Move Update.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 11.10.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Grayhair Software postal affairs vice president Angelo Anagnostopoulos, and Grayhair Software product development and management vice president Raymond Chin in a discussion of  Move Update.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 11.06.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Grayhair Software postal affairs vice president Angelo Anagnostopoulosin a discussion of e-Docs and PostalOne!/IMb.
•   PostCom Postal Videocast 10.30.09
  Join PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, and USPS Mail Classification Specialist Bill Chatfield in a demonstration of the mail piece "deflection" test used to determine the acceptability of flats mail pieces for machinability.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 10.10.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, Experian Vice President Steve Lopez, and PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance in a discussion of the many issues mailers are having with the Postal Service's Move Update program, particularly ACS.Notes that accompany this podcast have been posted on this site. Refer to these during the podcast.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 09.11.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Goldway in a discussion of various postal questions and issues.
• PostCom-Experian webinar podcast 07.15.09
  Experian's Mike Yapuncich will help you learn how your organization can not only take advantage of the USPS Summer program, but also a unique offering from Experian. Make the most of the USPS Summer Sale.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 06.09.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, and PostCom Postal Consultant Kathleen Siviter in a review of the many discussions that took place at last week's meeting of the PostCom Board of Directors.This podcast consists of five parts dealing with the following topics. The numbers noted in the parentheses represents the minutes run-time for each segment of the podcast:

  Discussion concerning tabbed booklets and folded self-mailers (13:26)
  Discussion concerning the Intelligent Mail Barcode and USPS barcode toleraances (21:37)
  Discussion concerning the experiences of those participating in IMb program tests and MAIL.dat vs. MAIL.xml (13:35)
  Discussion concerning move update and USPS imposition of revenue deficiencies (11:05)
  Discussion concerning NDCs and network redesign (10:00)

• PostCom Postal Podcast 05.19.09
  
Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and PostCom Board members Jolene Johannes, Lisa Wurman, and Michael Winn in a discussion of the Postal Service's rules governing tabbed booklets and what the rules mean to mailers. [This was recorded in the Exhibit Hall at the National Postal Forum.]
• PostCom Postal Podcast 04.23.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, NPF executive director Mike Genick, and the Postal Service's Alixe Johnson in a discussion of  this year's National Postal Forum.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 03.19.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, and USPS Senior Vice President of Operations William Galligan in a discussion of  the Postal Service's plans to reorganize its mail processing and distribution network.
  
• PostCom Postal Podcast 02.25.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito, PostCom Vice President Jessica Lowrance, and Postal Consulting Services President Kathleen Siviter in a discussion on the February 18-19 Mailers Technical Advisory Committee meeting.
• PostCom Postal Podcast 02.12.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and PostCom Vice President  Jessica Lowrance in a discussion of the Postal Service's announcement of postal price changes.
  
• PostCom Postal Podcast 01.28.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Experian Vice President of  Solutions Support Mike Yapuncich in a discussion of the value of good data quality and specifically the importance of address hygiene.  Today we will review the benefits to mailers in terms of increased response, postage savings, and reduced wasted advertising from the different address hygiene tools that are available.


• Postal Podcast.01.26.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito in a discussion with Everette Mills, Director, Analytical Services, GrayHair Software, Adam Collinson, Mailstream Consultant, Pitney Bowes Management Services, and Mark Shada, President, UAA Clearinghouse on aspects of address hygiene and the Intelligent Mail service.
  
• Postal Podcast.01.12.09
  Join U.S. Postal Service Ground Services Vice President Jim Cochrane for a virtual seminar on Can You Save $$$ On ShippingRethink Your Options. The webinar was jointly sponsored by the Association for Postal Commerce, the Direct Marketing Association, and the Parcel Shippers Association. The slides that accompany this webinar can be found on this site.


• Postal Podcast.01.05.09
  Join PostCom President Gene Del Polito and Grayhair Software Vice President Ray Chin and Lubenow and Associates President Joe Lubenow in a discussion of the supply chain issues related to Intelligent Mail Barcode services.