{"id":1800,"date":"2010-12-16T23:06:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T04:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2010-12-16T23:06:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T04:06:02","slug":"usps-introduces-brand-new-product-called-critical-mail-starting-january-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/12\/16\/usps-introduces-brand-new-product-called-critical-mail-starting-january-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS introduces brand new product called Critical Mail starting January 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/critical-mail.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1801\" title=\"critical mail\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/critical-mail-150x150.gif\" alt=\"USPS Introduces Critical Mail\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Good news for Priority Mail Commercial Plus customers &#8211; a brand new product for January 2011 &#8211; Critical Mail.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This new offering is an attractive marketing tool that will help companies and organizations attract and retain customers. Critical Mail will travel in the automation mailstream, a proven method for fast, consistent time-in-transit delivery performance.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, customers must have a customer commitment agreement with the Postal Service and mail 5,000 or more Critical Mail letters and\/or flats during a calendar year. Critical Mail is charged one price across all destination zones regardless of weight \u2014 $3.50 for letters and $4.25 for larger flat-sized envelopes.<\/p>\n<p>To sweeten the Critical Mail deal, optional electronic Delivery Confirmation service, which allows customers to confirm delivery, is included for free.<\/p>\n<p>All pieces must be automation compatible, which means letters cannot exceed 3 ounces or \u00bc of an inch thickness and flats cannot exceed 13 ounces or \u00be of an inch thickness.<\/p>\n<p>USPS-produced Critical Mail envelopes, which have an attractive design that drives an \u201copen-first\u201d behavior, must be used. The envelopes are available to authorized customers only by calling USPS Expedited Packaging Supplies at 1-800-610-8734. Pre-orders for Critical Mail packaging start on Dec. 13, 2010, and order shipments begin Dec. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for Priority Mail Commercial Plus customers &#8211; a brand new product for January 2011 &#8211; Critical Mail. This new offering is an attractive marketing tool that will help companies and organizations attract and retain customers. Critical Mail will travel in the automation mailstream, a proven method for fast, consistent time-in-transit delivery performance. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","tag-critical-mail","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}