HONOLULU – Kenji Higaki will be officially installed as the Honolulu Postmaster at a special program scheduled for 8 a.m. on Sept. 2 in the Mauna Kea Ballroom at the Hawaii Prince Hotel. The brief installation ceremony, which will culminate in the administration of the Oath of Office by the Postal Service’s Deputy Postmaster General Pat Donahoe, will open a special breakfast meeting of the Postal Customer Council of Hawaii.
Higaki has been serving as the Honolulu Postmaster since Feb. 27. He replaced Frank Santos, who recently assumed the position of Senior Plant Manager for the Honolulu District’s Processing & Distribution Center (P&DC).
As Honolulu Postmaster, Higaki is responsible for managing postal operations in metropolitan Honolulu encompassing 18 facilities and more than 600 employees.
He began his postal career as a Distribution Clerk at the Honolulu P&DC in 1968. Over the years Higaki has excelled in a variety of leadership positions in the Postal Service’s Honolulu District, including Operation Programs Analyst, Director of Mail Processing, Field Director of City Operations and, most recently, Manager of Operations Programs Support.
“Kenji’s four decades of Postal Service knowledge and wide range of managerial experience are exactly what we need to sustain our business and maintain our focus on providing trusted, reliable, affordable universal mail service,” said District Manager Daryl Ishizaki. “His wealth of knowledge serves as an invaluable resource for his talented and diverse team of managers, supervisors, and employees and his creative leadership will help us to continue our tradition of outstanding customer service performance.
Higaki resides in Kaneohe with his wife Gail and their adult children, Joshua and Jennifer.
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