Service Performance Remains Steady Across Postal Service Network

Amazon Publishing has launched Amazon Original Stories, a new imprint that will release short fiction and nonfiction works that can be read in a single sitting. The essays and reported pieces, available in the Kindle Singles store, will be free to Prime and Kindle Unlimited members. The pieces will be $1.99 for all other customers. The imprint's first titles are The Sign of the Beast by Joyce Carol Oates and Crown Heights by Colin Warner and Carl King. Forthcoming 2018 titles from the imprint include works by W. Kamau Bell, Jade Chang, Eddie Huang, Janice Y.K. Lee, Walter Kirn, Dean Koontz, Wednesday Martin, Nick McDonell, Harold Schechter, Dan Slater, Dodai Stewart, and Susan Straight. Click Read More below for additional information.

Dear Catalog Industry Member: If you have yet to come across this article, which appeared on September 6th in the Washington Post, New York Times, NY Daily News, and other major news outlets, it's worth a read, but with a grain of salt. Before you click on it, in a nutshell the article says the "Postal Service is currently petitioning the agency that oversees it, the Postal Regulatory Commission, to grant the biggest change to its pricing system in a half century: the authority to lift a cap on postal rates. The commission’s decision is expected within weeks." Rest assured, the USPS has not filed for such an increase. The headline of the story, "Analysis: Postal woes demand jump in stamp price to 60 cents," relates to the price increase needed to close the gap in postal finances in once fell swoop." Click Read More below for additional detail.

Tiny Prints unveiled an exclusive charitable holiday card collection, benefiting Baby2Baby, a non-profit organization that provides low-income children ages zero to 12 years with diapers, clothing and basic necessities that every child deserves. This year, Tiny Prints is increasing its donation pledge to 25 percent of the Baby2Baby Holiday Collection sales*. "Over the past four years, Tiny Prints has been committed to helping us impact the lives of so many deserving children in Los Angeles and beyond. With their help, this year we will provide over 150,000 children in Los Angeles with the basic essentials that every child deserves. We are so grateful for their continued support of the Baby2Baby kids," said Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein, Co-Presidents of Baby2Baby. Click Read More below for additional information.