Global Delivery Services
At USPS.com/global, customers can ship to virtually
every country worldwide with the U.S. Postal Service. We
offer everything from fast, date-certain service that will get
your customers' packages there in 1-3 days to unbeatable,
cost-effective options for your customers' less urgent
deliveries.
For every customer's international need, we have a
Global Delivery Service (see page 5).
Log on to USPS.com/global today and learn more about
Global Express Guaranteed, Global Express Mail, Global
Priority Mail and Global Airmail Parcel Post.
Think globally. Present locally.
Judy Garland honored on commemorative
stamp
 Left to right: Judy Garland's son
and daughter Joe and Lorna
Luft joined USPS Chief Marketing Officer Anita Bizzotto and
Garland's grandchildren Jesse
and Vanessa Richards at
Carnegie Hall.
Fans of Judy Garland saw their dreams come true at
Carnegie Hall, with the dedication of a postage stamp in her
honor.
Garland's daughter Lorna Luft spoke at the ceremony.
"Of all the honors accorded to my mother during her life and
afterwards, this recogni-tion ranks as one of the greatest,"
said Luft. "I can't think of a better place to unveil the stamp
than at Carnegie Hall, site of her greatest performance."
Garland performed "Judy" at Carnegie Hall in 1961. The
recording of her performance topped sales lists for
13 weeks and earned her five Grammy Awards.
April financial results released
USPS revenues of $5.88 billion for April were $58 million, or 1%, over plan and $115 million, or 2%, more than
April 2005. Expenses were virtually on plan, producing a
net income of $103 million before the monthly escrow
allocation of $250 million. After the escrow allocation, our
financial position for April shifts to a net deficiency of
$147 million.
Total mail volume in April was 1.9% less than last year.
Mail volumes in all major mail categories were below April
2005 levels. April 2006 had 25 delivery days and 20 business weekdays, while April 2005 had 26 delivery days and
21 business weekdays.
Year-to-date, net income before escrow allocation is
$1.66 billion, or $186 million, over plan. Year-to-date, the
net deficiency after escrow allocation is $89 million.
Full results are posted on USPS.com at http://www.
usps.com/financials/fos/welcome.htm.
Surface Visibility helps keep us on track
 Surface Visibility scanning helps
facilities track the mail with barcodes
on handling units, containers and
trailers.
Surface Visibility allows the Postal Service
to track individual handling units - trays, tubs
and sacks - from origin
to destination, by using a
series of barcode scans.
It's like the old "the
knee bone's connected
to the thigh bone" song.
Each scan builds on previous scans to help us
track the mail. And since
the scans are cross-
referenced, the Surface
Visibility system will let
you know if you're trying
to put a tray, sack or tub into a container where it doesn't
belong. Or a container in the wrong trailer.
Surface Visibility - brought to USPS by Network
Operations Management and Information Technology. It's
changing the way we dispatch mail. To see deployment
schedules, activation plans, equipment information and
more, go to Blue: Click on Inside USPS, then under
"Operations," Network Operations Management, then
under "NOM Spotlight," Surface Visibility.
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Motor vehicle accident numbers hit the
skids
The Postal Service is driving its accident rate down, literally. Motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) through April are down
significantly compared with the same period last year. Five
areas have reduced their MVAs. The top three are: Capital
Metro, down 10.2 percent; Eastern Area, down 9.5 percent;
and Great Lakes Area, down 7.2 percent.
Safety training is obviously paying off. The number of
MVA repeaters (drivers with three or more prior MVAs at the
time of their last MVA) is down 32. For the fiscal year, 336 of
our MVAs involved drivers with three or more prior MVAs.
Not only are the accident repeaters driving safer, we're all
driving smarter as well. The number of U-turn MVAs is
down 27 and the number of Postal Service drivers failing to
yield right-of-way in an MVA is down 74.
And we did all of this while adding 3.2 million miles to our
total mileage. Outstanding!
Response and recovery contracts
awarded
Decontamination services, demonstrated here by a volunteer
employee during a biohazard
alert test at the Dulles, VA, Processing and Distribution Center,
are available through two
vendors under a new USPS
contract.
As part of our priority to protect employees, customers,
operations and the mail, the Postal Service has awarded
contracts to two vendors to supply response and recovery
services during severe weather, disasters and other incidents of national significance that affect daily operations at
USPS facilities.
Through the Office of Emergency Preparedness, and
Supply Management, contracts were awarded to The Louis
Berger Group and Weston Solutions. The companies will
provide response and recovery support such as debris and
tree cleanup after hurricanes or tornados, identification and
containment of potentially hazardous materials or situations and facility decontamination.
These contracts will be available on eBuy by the end of
August. Before then, facilities that need response and recovery services may place orders through Supply
Management's Environmental and Maintenance, Repairs
and Operations Center. For more information, contact
Kathleen Couvillion at 214-819-7126, Tom Benson at
214-819-7117 or Janis Nichols at 214-819-7119.
Solving your computer issue helps
everyone
Don't be so fast with a reboot. When an application
doesn't open quickly or you see an error message, your
first thought might be to close the application and reopen it
or to reboot the computer. But that doesn't address what
caused the problem - it could happen again.
Information Technology (IT) needs your help to resolve
computer issues. Let IT know when you have recurring
problems with the same applications, including any resolutions you might have found.
Contact the IT Help Desk if you think you've done all you
can and still are having problems. The goal is to fix problems permanently - and help save the costs of repeated
calls to the IT Help Desk.
USPS National Emergency Hotline
Is your facility operating?
Call 888-363-7462
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