INCREASING THE VALUE OF MAIL THROUGH INNOVATION:
POTTER SAYS COUNTRY NEEDS AND WANTS A STRONG POSTAL SERVICE
As it takes focused steps in its 10-year action plan, “Delivering the Future,” the Postal Service will “bump up value” through innovation, service, quality and information to “levels you never imagined,” Postmaster General Jack Potter pledged today at the National Postal Forum.
“Mail will continue to have a great deal of value for businesses and the American people in 2020,” said Potter at the NPF, the mailing industry’s annual educational event and tradeshow. “An organization delivering 150 billion pieces of mail in 2020 is more than any other post in the world today and will be a very large business.”
Confident that the country needs and wants a strong and viable Postal Service, Potter outlined major steps to provide more flexibility in the marketplace. These include expanding retail access into non-postal locations and getting legislation that would permit USPS to explore new products and services — all allowing it to better respond to changing customer needs and compete more effectively. “As these changes roll out they’re going to make mail even more attractive,” said Potter.
The PMG said the Postal Service will not lose sight of its mission — to serve customers “today and every day into the future.” USPS will continue to deliver high levels of service while cutting costs, he said, aggressively managing expenses through network adjustments, efficiency tools and new equipment like the flats sequencer. At the same time, innovations like Intelligent Mail barcodes will help secure the future. “I am convinced the Postal Service and mailing industry have a strong, bright future ahead,” said Potter.
In other remarks, Potter said the Postal Service will not let changes distract from what’s important day to day. “If you mail with us, you’ll get delivered,” he assured customers. “And at the end of the day, there will be a strong Postal Service for years to come.”
Joined by Robert Bernstock, president of Mailing and Shipping Services, Potter today also presented the Partnership for Progress Award to Walmart, the nation’s leading retailer, which uses the Postal Service for direct mail as well as its growing mail-order pharmacy service.
We need a new Postmaster General. One who doesn’t speak from both sides of his mouth. Someone with a vision. Someone with a positive attitude. Someone who understands ‘if you don’t touch a single piece of mail, you need to look for another job’. Someone who understands cutting services should be your last option than your first. Someone who values everyone, and I mean everyone. Just because you may be elderly, you’re still valued as a postal customer, and you deserve six-day delivery. This is not something which should go by the wayside. We don’t have to accept second best. I don’t care if Canada has five-day delivery and it’s worked for them. There Canada, we’re the United States of America.
WE REALLY WANT A NEW PMG!!!!!! THAT DON’T WANT TO DISMANTAL THE USPS, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE CUTS FROM THE BOTTOM? THE PEOPLE WHO WORK THE MAIL WHY DON’T YOU MAKE THE CUTS FROM THE TOP???? EVERYONE BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT WE ARE SO TOP HEAVY WHY DO WE NEED SO MUCH MANAGEMENT? EVERYBODY GETS A CAR SOMETIMES I THINK I’M WATCHING THE OPRAH SHOW! YOU GET A CAR!! YOU GET A CAR!! IF YOU KEEP GETTING RID OF THE PEOPLE WHO WORK THE ACTUAL MAIL WHO WILL MANAGEMENT SUPERVISE? DO WE REALLY NEED A POSTMASTER FOR EACH AND EVERY ZONE? NO, THEY CAN DO 5 ZONES AND GO TO EACH ONE EVERY DAY? THEY ALREADY GET A COMPANY CAR… THAT SAVES 4 POSTMASTER PAY… YOU DO THE MATH THATS ALOT OF $$$$$$ THAT YOU COULD LEAVE IN CRAFT EMPLOYEES WHO WORK THE MAIL….AND WE DON’T WANT TO GO TO 5 DAYS A WEEK DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU WERE IN CRAFT WHAT IT’S LIKE AFTER A HOLIDAY? WHAT DO YOU THINK IT WILL BE @ 5 DAYS A WEEK YOU WILL HAVE PEOPLE GETTING INJURED, OR MAYBE THATS THE GOAL SO WHEN THEY GET HURT THEN THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE (NRP) AND LOSE THEIR JOB… I GET IT NOW!!! I SEE WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO HERE.. THATS WHERE THE REAL COST SAVINGS ARE!! WHEN YOU GET RID OF EMPLOYESS,, BUT ONE QUESTION? WHY ISN’T THIS BEING DONE TO MANAGEMENT THE (NRP) JUST CRAFT???? LISTEN TO THE PUBLIC AND OUR CUSTOMERS THEY (DON’T) WANT 5 DAYS A WEEK!!!! IT’S GOING TO HURT THEIR BUSINESS AND OURS!! THE USPS IS A SERVICE, SERVICE,SERVICE WE WERE NOT PUT HERE TO MAKE PROFITS WE ARE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HERE TO SERVE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC… NOT WALL STREET!!! OR THE REPUBLICANS!!! IF YOU CAN’T SEE THAT THEN IT’S TIME FOR A NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL!!!!