In today’s Postal Service, innovation and sustainability are important in all aspects of the business. We seek to apply new ideas to our structure, processes, products, and services so that we become a leaner, faster and smarter organization. As technology and customer needs change, we continue to rely on the creativity and innovation of the entrepreneurial community to help us do this and keep the Postal Service on the path of long-term sustainability.
The Unsolicited Proposal Program (UPP) provides companies and entrepreneurs the opportunity to submit new technologies or ideas to improve postal operations. An unsolicited proposal is the offer to sell to the Postal Service the rights to ideas, concepts, products, processes or technology. It is considered unsolicited because it is not submitted in response to a solicitation, request for proposal (RFP), or any other Postal Service-initiated solicitation or program. The UPP guidelines are available for review in Publication 131 under ‘Doing Business With Us’ at: www.usps.com.
Along with price, quality, and delivery standards, the Postal Service will continue to explore innovations in sustainable supply chains that start with the requirements and specifications of what we buy to how we transport, warehouse, fulfill, consume, reuse, recycle and dispose. Suppliers who have a focus on innovation and sustainability have a competitive advantage in today’s supply chains.
