How Blockchain & Digital Currency Could Revamp the U.S. Postal Service
The U.S. Postal Service has identified a number of ways that blockchain technology can improve its services and make it a more relevant player in global commerce, according to a report, “Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service.” The postal services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) contracted with Swiss Economics to better understand blockchain and identify potential areas of interest for the Postal Service. The postal service could use blockchain technology to improve the back-end of its financial products like money orders and international money transfers. A....
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The US Postal Service has released a new report outlining how it could adopt blockchain technology within its operations. The report, released by the Postal Service's Office of the Inspector General (OIG), suggests that the service should consider using the technology to reinforce its supply chains, create connected device networks or even issue its own digital currency. Published today to little fanfare, the OIG report posits that in the short-term, the government should devote resources to weighing where applications could be made, arguing that “beginning to experiment with its possible....
The United States Postal Service (USPS) and the blockchain join hands; Mt. Gox creditors aim to get what’s theirs, and Swift gets slowed down by bank breaches. Want to see what you’ve been missing in digital currency news? Take a gander at the stories below: USPS. Are the United States Postal Service and the blockchain the digital world’s new power couple? According to a new report, that’s how things appear. Titled, “Blockchain Technology: Possibilities for the U.S. Postal Service,” and authored by consulting firm Swiss Economics, the report states that: “The Postal Service could benefit....
The U.S. Postal Service has been investigating possible ways to use blockchain technology to provide services to customers more efficiently and improve their bottom line. Blockchain technology could soon be used to deliver post office financial services, identity services, supply chain management, and device management. A new report examines these....
According to ZDNet, the postal service in Australia is looking into developing blockchain platforms to ease into the global acceleration of digital identity services. Australia’s Postal Service Sees 3 Major Use-Cases. Announcing the news at the Technology in Government conference, Rick Wingfield, an Australia Post Accelerator partner, described three....
The US Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), the law enforcement arm of the US Postal Service, has listed a job opening something called an “Intelligence Gathering Specialist.” Candidates must understand bitcoin, darknet markets and how to analyze the information stored on a blockchain. The USPIS jurisdiction encompasses “crimes that may adversely affect or....