What:

Oath of office ceremony for Raj Sanghera who will be sworn in by Mayor Edwin M. Lee as the 29th postmaster of San Francisco.  

Who:

The Honorable Edwin M. Lee, mayor, City and County of San Francisco
Raj Sanghera, postmaster, San Francisco
Rosemarie Fernandez, district manager, San Francisco Postal District

When:

Thursday, July 26, 2012, 11 a.m.

Where:

San Francisco Mail Processing Plant
1300 Evans Ave., Room 332
San Francisco, CA 94124

Background:

Sanghera was named the Postmaster of San Francisco in February, 2012. She is responsible for the delivery of mail to nearly 400,000 San Francisco residential and business customers, six days a week. She oversees 31 retail post offices and ten delivery units in San Francisco and a workforce of nearly 1,400 employees.
Sanghera began her Postal Service career in 1989 as a letter carrier in San Jose, where she was promoted to Supervisor, Customer Service in 1996. Since then, she has held positions of increasing responsibility including manager of customer service operations for the City of San Francisco. In 2008, she was promoted to her most recent assignment as manager, operations programs support for the San Francisco District.
A strong advocate of the Pacific Area’s “Achievement Culture,” Sanghera has embraced the challenge of driving service levels up while taking costs out of the system, while at the same time managing a more flexible workforce. She has also completed Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training.