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Association for Postal Commerce Association for Postal Commerce 1901 N. Fort Myer Dr., Ste 401 * Arlington, VA 22209-1609 * USA * Ph.: +1 703 524 0096 * Fax: +1 703 524 1871 Postal News from January 2011: Welcome to PostCom Radio 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? January 31, 2011 Times Live: "Floods and snow are to blame for the late delivery of mail posted in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States to South Africa, says the Post Office. Items sent from these countries in December 2010 were now starting to be distributed locally, head of mail business at the Post Office, Janras Kotsi, said in a statement on Monday. Flooding and snow severely hampered postal services in those countries. "These postal operators have assured us that they are doing everything within their means to ensure their mail operations get back to normal as soon as possible. "We therefore want to assure our customers that these mail items were not delayed as a result of our operations, but by conditions abroad." Guernsey Press: "Guernsey Post has welcomed a consultation paper to review and reform the current service. Chief executive Boley Smillie (pictured) said it would contribute to an informed debate on how best to meet the postal needs of the people. Post & Parcel: "The US Postal Service has extended its partnership with the producer of its Mover’s Guide, which helps US residents change address when moving house. The USPS has put pen to paper on a 10-year renewal of its MoverSource Alliance, a service provided by Pitney Bowes subsidiary Imagitas, Inc. Through the partnership, Massachusetts-based Imagitas produces a range of printed and online materials to provide introductory information to about 44 million people that change address each year in the US." Reuters: "Trade unions have ratified a deal limiting forced lay-offs at Dutch mail company TNT (TNT.AS), removing a threat of industrial action that could have derailed a possible sale of its postal unit. Intelisent: "For time-sensitive direct mailers, the weather can throw a real monkey wrench into delivery and in- home projections and planning. Sometimes, circumstances beyond control, like the weather, results in mail delays. These delays can sometimes affect only a portion or geographic region on a mailing. When will my mail piece get there? Did it get there? Without any visibility, it is impossible to predict and adjust accordingly. Unless, of course, the mail piece carries an Intelligent Mail® barcode, supercharged with OneCode Confirm®. OneCode Confirm® mail piece tracking can be done with either Basic or Full Service Intelligent Mail®." At the Postal Regulatory Commission: MT2011-3 Comments from Wanda Senne, National Director Postal Development of World Marketing in Docket No. MT2011-3 http://www.prc.gov/docs/71/71721/Wanda Senne World Marketing 1312011.pdf The U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General invites you to comment on this week’s “Pushing the Envelope” blog topic: • Postal Service Workers’ Compensation Program. Would you support a legislative change to discontinue the use of Department of Labor and allow the Postal Service or a third party to administer the Postal Service’s workers’ compensation program? LINK here to read and provide comments. New Audit Projects: LINK here to visit our audit project pages. This week we opened the following new project(s): (Please share any information you may have that would help with this audit currently in progress by clicking on the link below): A new audit project has been started on the external website. • Congressional Request - Senator Susan M. Collins (effects USPS compliance rules have on mailers) - 11RO002MS000. Senator Susan M. Collins requested that we evaluate commercial mailer concerns with Postal Service compliance rules on business mailers. Specifically, we will focus on recent and planned changes to compliance rules related to Intelligent Mail, Mail Evaluation Readability Lookup Instrument, Move Update, and Plant Verified Drop Shipments. • Oversight of Equitable Adjustment Claims - 11YG005CA000. Our objectives are to determine the scope of contract change orders that resulted in an equitable adjustment and evaluate the Postal Service’s oversight of those equitable adjustments. As background, contract modifications must be priced before they are signed if it can be done without adversely affecting the interest of the Postal Service. Contracting Officers (COs) must promptly negotiate equitable adjustments resulting from change orders and ensure that a price and cost analysis has been made. COs must also ensure that all elements of an equitable adjustment have been presented and resolved and include a release of claims in the supplemental agreement. We will be utilizing the Contract Authoring Management Systems (CAMS) and the electronic Facilities Management System (eFMS) to identify contract change orders that resulted in an equitable adjustment in FYs 2009 and 2010. You can visit the Office of Inspector General’s public website at: www.uspsoig.gov. For the latest information, follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/OIGUSPS and join us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/oig.usps. Press Release: "FedEx Freight Corp., a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX) and a less-than-truckload (LTL) market leader, significantly enhances its service offerings today, launching its new unified LTL network and offering customers the choice of two levels of service from a single company. Both services, FedEx Freight® Priority and FedEx Freight® Economy, are designed to meet the needs of today’s LTL shippers." The linked image cannot be displayed. The file may have been moved, renamed, or deleted. Verify that the link points to the correct file and location. International Freighting Weekly: "DHL claims it did see a traditional surge in demand for air express and freight services in the run-up to Chinese New Year, bucking the trend reported by most other carriers and integrators." People's Daily: "The State Post Bureau has fined the Shanghai Jinqiao division of Shentong Express 10,000 yuan ($1,520) for rough handling of parcels. It is the first time the bureau has imposed such a punishment against a courier for rough handling." Reuters: "Australian Post's Antarctica branch marks 1st season." Toronto Star: "The day Deepak Chopra made his inaugural address as head of Canada Post, the staff of the Crown corporation was scrambling to restore mail delivery in Scarborough. For two days — residents say it was a week — there was no service to a large chunk of the district. Chopra, former regional president of Pitney Bowes, officially takes command this week. For the last two weeks, he’s been telling Canadians he considers the embattled post office “a national treasure” which he looks forward to running. If so, it’s a rapidly shrinking treasure. Mail volumes are dropping. Operating costs are rising. Customers are fleeing. Many analysts believe the government- owned behemoth is doomed." BBC: "Unless Guernsey's postal services are scaled back, charges will have to go up, according to an island politician." Washington Post: The Post has published a transcript of the video of its conversation with Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe. Hellmail: "The Finnish postal service, Posti (part of the Itella group), is to introduce new, blue letterboxes for 1st class mail and improved transit times for 2nd class letters from tomorrow." North County Times: "The U.S. Postal Service's new mail-sorting machine is about the size of 14 double-decker buses ---- and it's fast. It can do the job of 26 humans working at full-bore. Unlike its fleshy counterparts, it will work nonstop 17-hour shifts and won't ever get paper cuts or carpal tunnel syndrome. It's part of a $1.5 billion investment expected to shave hours off the processing time for millions of pieces of mail every day and save the financially ailing Postal Service billions of dollars." January 30, 2011 The BBC has reported that "Reducing postal deliveries in Guernsey is one of the suggestions being made to save money. The States Commerce and Employment said cutting deliveries to five days a week would save £500,000, while reducing if further to three days would save £1m. George Sauvage, director of strategy, said while Guernsey Post was doing all it could to work efficiently, more savings were needed." National Public Radio has reported that "Bolstered by billions in federal stimulus money, an effort to expand broadband Internet access to rural areas is under way, an ambitious 21st-century infrastructure project with parallels to the New Deal electrification of the nation's hinterlands in the 1930s and 1940s." [EdNote: But not a dime's worth of consideration for bringing justice to the USPS CSRS-overfunding/health pre-funding mess. How much more of a crisis does the Administration or Congress need to get this issue the right kind of attention?] The Tribune-Star has told its readers that "The future of rural and suburban branches of the U.S. Postal Service is in question now. This month, the USPS — which lost $8.5 billion last year — announced it will close as many as 2,000 post offices around the country. The Postal Service hasn’t yet decided which locations will be shut down and won’t rush that decision, but the review process has begun." The Mansfield News Journal has noted that "'60 Minutes' visits Mansfield post office." The Ledger has reported that "FedEx is winding down operations at a Lakeland trucking facility as part of a consolidation that is eliminating about 160 local jobs." [EdNote: What? No '60 Minutes'?] January 29, 2011 The BBC has reported that "About 250 people have joined a protest in Birmingham city centre against plans to privatise the Royal Mail.
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