All Things Delivered

For this week's episode, The Capitol Forum's Mike Williams sat down with international shipping expert Mark Schoeman to discuss the current state of international shipping, the role of Extraterritorial Offices of Exchange and the disruptive potential of a U.S. withdrawal from the Universal Postal Union.

In light of the USPS announcement that it lost $1.5 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2019, Mike Williams of The Capitol Forum sat down with Ross Marchand of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance to discuss their report that found over $3.3 billion dollars that the USPS could recoup without any congressional directives.

For this episode, Mike Williams sat down with Nick Zaiac of the R Street Institute to discuss recommendations by the Presidential Task Force on the USPS, such as changes to the Universal Service Obligation, the relationship between monopoly and competitive mail, and postal employee benefits.

This week, The Capitol Forum sat down with international shipping expert Jim Campbell to discuss the context of the U.S. withdrawal from the Universal Postal Union, the implications of the withdrawal, and potential remedies that could be reached prior to the deadline for withdrawal.

On this week's episode, Capitol Forum reporters Mike Williams and Vikas Kumar discuss recent developments in the postal space, including a recent inspector general report about lax oversight of the negotiated service agreement program, The Capitol Forum's prior work in this space, and key data points to watch.

On this week’s episode, The Capitol Forum interviewed former Amazon executive Brittain Ladd, to discuss the recent development of Amazon’s Delivery Service Partner program and the potential effects on Amazon’s current delivery partners such as FedEx, UPS, and the USPS.

Welcome to All Things Delivered, The Capitol Forum's Postal Policy Podcast, where experts discuss the laws, policies, practices, and people who govern and influence the shipping and e-commerce industries. On this week’s episode, Vikas Kumar and Mike Williams sat down with The Capitol Forum's executive editor, Teddy Downey, to discuss recent important developments at the United States Postal Service that will result in key policy changes that could affect the entire eCommerce sector and specific companies like Stamps.com, Amazon, FedEx, and UPS.