VOE surveys — your chance to express
your opinion
Approximately 25 percent of career employees each
quarter have the opportunity to complete Voice of the
Employee (VOE) surveys. If you don't complete the survey,
USPS won't have your input to continue working to improve
the workplace for everyone - including you.
You'll see something new in the questions this time
around. VOE has introduced a new, brief section at the end
of the survey called "Your Feedback." It's a way for USPS to
get comments on timely topics without changing the main
survey questions - making it possible to develop specific,
effective strategies around those topics.
If you receive a VOE survey this quarter, fill it out and
send it back before the Aug. 28 deadline. You can take the
survey on the clock, and it's postage paid to mail it in.
Walker named Chief Financial Officer
and Executive Vice President
 Postmaster General Jack
Potter announced the selection
of Harold Glen Walker as Chief
Financial Officer and Executive
Vice President.
Walker brings more than
30 years of domestic and international financial experience to
the position, having served
most recently as Vice President
of Finance and Chief Financial
Officer for Invensys Controls.
He also was Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer for a significant portion of Whirlpool
Corporation's international operations, encompassing 35
nations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Walker has served as a partner at Ernst & Young, one of
the nation's leading accounting firms. A certified public
accountant, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
Accounting from the University of Memphis.
"I am confident that Glen's experience, knowledge,
and commitment to our stakeholders - internally and
externally - will serve our organization well," said Potter.
Priority Mail shoe box is eBayer's
perfect fit
 Grandshoebah owner Phillip Dennis
and shipping assistant Terry Toon
ready another pair of shoes for
shipping.
Phillip Dennis of
McKinney, TX, quickly
realized that every time
he put a pair of shoes up
for sale on his eBay account, they almost always
sold! So he quit his job.
And now, Dennis sells
shoes full time from his
eBay store - The Grandshoebah. The store is
eBay's largest Johnson and Murphy shoe sale site.
"My mother Linda is the brains behind the outfit." he
says. "She has the business sense and I come up with the
ideas."
"The fact that I can order the boxes online and the postage can be deducted right from my PayPal account makes
shipping very convenient," says Dennis. "And free Delivery
Confirmation service makes us very attractive to buyers."
Grandshoebah ships exclusively through the Postal
Service - to the tune of 700 Priority Mail shoe boxes a
month.
USPS and Highlights for Children mark
milestone
 University Station Letter Carrier
Richard Durrett delivers the 1 billionth
copy of Highlights for Children
magazine to Madison Tedford, a
Highland Park, TX, subscriber. Looking
on is Dallas Letter Carrier Timothy
Teamann, right, with Highlights CEO
Kent Johnson, left, and Editor Christine
French Clark.
For more than 60
years, Highlights for Children has been an important part of many a child's
education. And from the
beginning, the Postal
Service has been an important part of the reliable
delivery of the magazine.
So when the 1 billionth
copy of the magazine
rolled off the presses recently, USPS officials
and Highlights representatives marked their three
generations of collaboration with a ceremony highlighting
the delivery of that 1 billionth copy.
USPS and Highlights company representatives will observe the historic delivery again on Aug. 23, when they
place copies of the June 1946 first edition and the August
2006 issue of the magazine in the archives of the National
Postal Museum.
My Desktop Post Office takes legwork
out of a trip to the Post Office
 Princeton Junction, NJ, Postmaster
Fulin Ritt being interviewed by Charles
Osgood for CBS News.
Princeton Junction,
NJ, Postmaster Fulin Ritt
was interviewed by
Charles Osgood of CBS
Radio about My Desktop
Post Office, which is being rolled out nationwide.
Ritt explained that My
Desktop Post Office is easily downloaded from USPS.com
onto personal computers. There's no application fee or
monthly service charge, and registered users are sent
automatic updates.
Once installed, it gives a customer quick access to customized USPS shipping and mailing services, including
package pickup requests, from a single icon on the computer's desktop.
There also are links so customers can create and send
their own direct mail and design post cards, greeting cards
and brochures from their computers.
Security shield — are you wearing your
ID badge?
 To promote awareness of ID badges, USPS
will soon begin distributing the poster shown
here to its facilities.
The Postal Service
requires all employees,
contractors and temporary employees to wear ID badges.
Positive identification of anyone entering a Postal Service
facility is perhaps the most basic tool USPS has to protect
lives, property and the mail.
Remember these basic rules about your ID badges:
• Wear them while you're at work.
• Display them on outer clothing, preferably over the
left side of your chest.
• Show them to security officers - where they are on
duty - when you enter a Postal Service facility.
• Do not let your badge fall into the wrong hands.
Report lost badges.
• Return your badge when your employment at USPS
ends.
• Return temporary badges daily.
Motorcycle stamps take to the highways
 Unveiling the American Motorcycles
stamps in Sturgis, SD, are, from left,
Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (R), U.S.
Rep. Stephanie Herseth (D-SD), South
Dakota Governor Mike Rounds (R),
USPS Board Of Governors Chairman
James Miller, Sturgis Mayor Mark
Zeigler, Secretary of the Interior Dick
Kempthorne, U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson
(D-SD), USPS Chief Marketing Officer
Anita Bizzotto and U.S Sen. John
Thune (R-SD).
The first of 85 million
classic American Motorcycles commemorative
stamps began their road
trip across the country by
kick-starting the 66th
annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally recently in
Sturgis, SD. The 1918
Cleveland, 1940 Indian
Four and 1965 Harley-
Davidson Electra-Glide
that modeled for the
stamps were showcased
at the event. The fourth
stamp, depicting a circa
1970 Chopper, was computer generated by the stamp
artist.
"We understand the power our stamps have in helping to
celebrate our American culture," said USPS Board of Governors Chairman James Miller, who dedicated the stamps.
"These motorcycles are iconic classics that represent the
sense of freedom that is America."
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