POSTAL BULLETIN 22207 (5-24-07) for Employees at CONTENTS
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Front Cover Also on the Web: For customers at www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/bulletin/pb.htm 2 POSTAL BULLETIN 22207 (5-24-07) For employees at http://blue.usps.gov CONTENTS USPSNews@Work . 3 Updated Announcement 07-D: 2007 Stamps and Postal Stationery . 57 Online International Shipping Enhancements Notice: Stamp Stock Items Withdrawn From Regular and Forms Field Information Kit. 6 Sale and From Sale at Philatelic Centers . 60 Policies, Procedures, and Forms Updates Pictorial Postmarks Announcement . 62 How to Order the First Day of Issue Digital Color or Manuals Traditional Postmarks . 69 ELM Revision: Reporting Requirements for Sex Offenders. 12 Postal Inspection Services One Call Does It All — Postal Inspection Service Offers Handbooks Toll-free Phone Number . 70 Revision to Handbook F-15, Travel and Relocation . 13 Publications Mover’s Guide News: May 2007 Mover’s Guide News . 13 Pull-Out Information Revised Publication 108, Threat Assessment Team Guide Is Now Available . 14 Fraud Domestic Orders . 25 Information Desk Withholding of Mail Orders . 25 Address Management Invalid Express Mail Corporate Account Numbers . 27 Post Office Changes . 15 Missing, Lost, or Stolen U.S. Money Order Forms . 29 Missing, Lost, or Stolen Canadian Money Order Forms . 34 Delivery and Retail Verifying U.S. Postal Service Money Orders . 37 Stamps by Mail — Brochure Ordering Information . 15 Counterfeit Canadian Money Order Forms . 37 Human Resources Toll-Free Number Available to Verify Canadian Money New Poster 63: Postal Service Policy on Reporting Orders . 37 Requirements for Sex Offenders. 17 Other Information Information Technology Overseas Military Mail . 38 Changes in Cellular Services Management . 17 Poster 63 . 43 Licensing. 18 Displaying the U.S. Flag and the POW-MIA Flag . 45 Marketing Thrift Savings Plan Fact Sheet. 47 Mail Alert . 20 Seamless Verification System Test . 20 Postal Bulletin Index Customized Postage Is Being Tested on First-Class Annual Index. PB 22198 (01-18-07) Mail Presort . 21 Premium Forwarding Service Helps Customers and Generates Additional Revenue!. 22 Philately Stamp Announcement 07-21: Pacific Lighthouses . 24 Stamp Announcement 07-22: Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp . 50 Stamp Announcement 07-23: Official Mail Stamp . 52 Stamp Announcement 07-24: Hearts . 53 Stamp Announcement 07-25: Pollination . 56 New Hearts Stamps, see page 53. Ordering Information: Following is the list of postal stock numbers (PSNs) to use when ordering copies of the Postal Bulletin from the MDC: PB 22207: 7690-09-000-9358 PB 22200: 7690-09-000-9351 PB 22192: 7690-08-000-4073 PB 22184: 7690-08-000-4065 PB 22206: 7690-09-000-9357 PB 22199: 7690-09-000-9350 PB 22191: 7690-08-000-4072 PB 22183: 7690-08-000-4064 PB 22205: 7690-09-000-9356 PB 22198: 7690-08-000-4079 PB 22190: 7690-08-000-4071 PB 22182: 7690-08-000-4063 PB 22204: 7690-09-000-9355 PB 22197: 7690-08-000-4078 PB 22189: 7690-08-000-4070 PB 22181: 7690-08-000-4062 PB 22203A: 7690-09-000-9947 PB 22196: 7690-08-000-4077 PB 22188: 7690-08-000-4069 PB 22180: 7690-08-000-4061 PB 22203: 7690-09-000-9354 PB 22195: 7690-08-000-4076 PB 22187: 7690-08-000-4068 PB 22179: 7690-08-000-4060 PB 22202: 7690-09-000-9353 PB 22194: 7690-08-000-4075 PB 22186: 7690-08-000-4067 PB 22178: 7690-08-000-4059 PB 22201: 7690-09-000-9352 PB 22193: 7690-08-000-4074 PB 22185: 7690-08-000-4066 PB 22177: 7690-08-000-4058 USPSNEWS@WORK POSTAL BULLETIN 22207 (5-24-07) 3 USPSNEWS@WORK Now playing: Star Wars stamp promo New mail scanning video gives tips to premiers in several theaters protect USPS revenue The Star Wars stamps go on sale nationwide in Post A new video gives tips Offices and on usps.com May 25. But before the “movie on properly scanning that launched a thousand sequels” gets its own stamps, inbound international the stamps themselves are being promoted at — where packages to protect else? — movie theaters. USPS revenue. Without A promotional video featuring the Star Wars collectible proof of delivery, the stamps will play before feature presentations and on TV Postal Service is liable sets in lobbies at select theaters in New York, California for the loss of numbered parcels sent by custom- and Washington, DC. The promo captures the personalities From USPS video on mail scanning. of the Star Wars characters in a fanfare of sound effects, ers from countries out- music and imagery. side the U.S. Visit https://liteblue.usps.gov/news/link/2007may18on The failure to scan international mail costs the Postal screen.htm for a list of movie theaters running the promo. Service millions of dollars a year, according to Global The promotion will run through May 31. Business Managing Director and Senior Vice President Paul Vogel. Don’t despair if there aren’t any theaters featuring the promo in your corner of the galaxy. You can see it on The rate has improved since then, thanks to new labels USPS-TV On Demand — On Demand is not available on all that the international service centers now apply to pack- USPS computers. ages to alert carriers and retail associates that scanning is required. And the new video “International Mail Scanning” also will help. It’s available on USPS-TV On Demand at Where it all began: USPS celebrates at http://blue.usps.gov/pac/uspstv/welcome.htm under Top Jamestown festivities Picks. You can get Voice of the Employee (VOE) credit for watching it — course #15201-87. Thousands flocked to Jamestown, VA, Area and district Delivery Confirmation coordinators, retail recently to celebrate the associates, and letter carriers should view the video. DVD 400th anniversary of copies have been distributed to all Postmasters or station America’s first English managers. If your office didn’t receive a copy, contact settlement. And USPS Overseas Delivery Manager Ron Middlebrooks at was in the middle of it all. [email protected]. The Postal Service New Millennium Studios Vice Presi- celebrated by issuing dent Daphne Maxwell Reid, USPS Governor Katherine Tobin, Virginia At- Going the distance: This LLV puts long the 41-cent The Settle- torney General Bob McDonnell and ment of Jamestown Jamestown 2007 Stamp and Cachet into life stamp. The First-Class Project Director Dr. Edwin Logan. They’re called “long- Mail stamp depicts the life vehicles.” But with three ships that carried the settlers to Jamestown, and 402,000 miles on the comes in the shape of a triangle — representing the set- odometer, one delivery tlers’ triangular fort. vehicle is single- handedly redefining the USPS Governor Katherine Tobin was the dedicating term. official and also inserted a signed sheet of The Settlement of Jamestown commemorative stamps into America’s The Kansas City, KS, 400th anniversary commemoration time capsule — to be long-life vehicle (LLV) Express Mail Clerk Chuck Woods reg- has the highest mileage ularly drives this LLV, which has logged opened in 50 years. more than 402,000 miles. in the Western Area — and possibly the Postal Service. 4 POSTAL BULLETIN 22207 (5-24-07) USPSNEWS@WORK Incredibly, Chuck Woods, an Express Mail clerk at the The change means carriers will no longer need to merge Kansas City, KS, Post Office, has put the majority of miles the postcards with their respective flyers, which should on the LLV. The well-traveled vehicle has been in service speed delivery time. For more information about this pro- since 1994. gram, go to www.missingkids.com. “We’re confident that ‘Chuck’s Truck’ — nicknamed by vehicle maintenance staff — will make it to a half million miles,” said Allen Knoll, Shawnee Mission Vehicle Mainte- USPS selected employer of the year: nance supervisor. “Our VMF employees do an outstanding Postal Service employee also recognized job of keeping our vehicles in safe working order — and on The nation’s first and the road.” only career-guidance and recruitment maga- zine for people with dis- Bringing home the children: Program to abilities has named the find missing children improves USPS a Public-Sector They have been a Employer of the Year. familiar sight in cus- The Spring 2007 tomer mailboxes for issue of Careers & the more than 20 years. disABLED magazine “Have You Seen Me?” also recognized Betty postcards, featuring the Henderson, Philadelphia names and faces of supervisor of Distribu- missing children, reach tion Operations, for her more than 120 million work on coordinating people weekly. The activities between the Deaf and Disabilities Awareness program — responsible Group and her mail processing group. The magazine said for returning 144 miss- Henderson — who is also deaf — was “assertive and ing children since Sample of the ADVO ShopWise flyers confident and ensures that she communicates effectively 1985 — has improved. with the new “Have You Seen Me?” with the Philadelphia team.” appeal at bottom. To enhance the pro- The Postal Service received the award for its “progres- gram’s visibility, the sive efforts to recruit, hire and promote people with disabil- direct mail company is moving the missing children’s pic- ities,” the article said. Additionally, the magazine’s readers tures and profiles to the back cover of ShopWise, the flyers chose USPS as one of the top five employers where its that presently accompany the postcards. readers would most like to work. The postcards, known as detached address labels The magazine highlighted the Postal Service’s Video (DALs) to postal carriers, will no longer be needed. ADVO, Remote Interpreting and Video Relay Service — two forms creator of the “Have You Seen Me?” program, has elimi- of Web-based sign language interpreting technology — as nated the DALs.