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VOE surveys — express yourself!
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,
the Postal Service won't have your input to continue working to improve the workplace for everyone - including you.
If you receive a VOE survey this quarter, fill it out - on
the clock. And send it back before the Nov. 22 deadline.
The survey is postage paid to mail it in.
Jimmy Stewart, Ella Fitzgerald headline
2007 commemorative stamp program
 Jimmy Stewart and Ella Fitzgerald lead an
all-star cast of 2007 commemorative stamps.
The 2007
USPS Comme-
morative Stamp
Program was announced recently
and customers
and collectors are
sure to be pleased
with this year's offerings. The Postal
Service mixes the
old with the new -
continuing successful series like the Black Heritage, Literary
Arts and Legends of Hollywood stamps - while adding new
designs like the Marvel Super Heroes and The Art of Disney:
Magic stamps to its repertoire.
Two of America's greatest entertainers headline this
year's all-star cast. Ella Fitzgerald, the 30th honoree in the
Postal Service's Black Heritage series, was widely known
as "The First Lady of Song." Joining Ella is Jimmy Stewart,
the 13th honoree in the Legends of Hollywood series.
Stewart was a quintessential American film hero whose
lanky physique, drawling speech and naturalistic acting
style came to personify "Everyman."
Premium Forwarding Service generates
$7 million in its first year
After just 1 year, Premium Forwarding Service (PFS) -
the 2-year experimental service approved by the Postal
Service Board of Governors in 2005 - has enrolled more
than 100,000 customers. In just 12 months, PFS has generated more than $7 million in new revenue and has
avoided approximately $40 million in costs associated with
the informal "snowbird" arrangements of the past.
For a fee, PFS customers can send mail from a primary
residence to a temporary address. The service is intended
for snowbirds, traveling business executives, college students and anyone else planning to be away from for
periods of 2 weeks to a year.
Tell your customers, family and friends that PFS is a secure and convenient way to stay connected while they're
away.
Chacón's Madonna and Child with Bird
stamp makes postal debut
USPS Board of Governors member
Katherine Tobin, right, presents framed
postal art of the new Christmas stamp
to Anne Freyer Sweeney. The Freyer
family donated the Madonna and Child
with Bird painting, pictured on the
stamp, to the Denver Art Museum.
A Christmas flavor
prevailed recently at the
Denver Art Museum,
where USPS issued its
Madonna and Child with
Bird 2006 holiday stamp.
USPS Board of Governors member Katherine
Tobin headlined the national first-day-of-issue
stamp ceremony. Denver,
CO, Postmaster Alan
Catlin, representatives
from the museum and
local art patrons joined
Tobin for the event.
Also attending the
ceremony was Anne Freyer Sweeney and members of her
family. The Freyer family donated the painting pictured on
the stamp to the Denver Art Museum. The painting has
been on display at the museum since 1972. Ignacio
Chacón, who was active in Cuzco, Peru, from 1745 to
1775, completed the oil-on-canvas masterpiece in 1765.
USPS wins Silver ECHO award
 USPS earned a Silver ECHO award for its
peach-shaped direct mail campaign.
The Postal
Service recently won a Silver
ECHO award
from the Direct
Marketing
Association
(DMA). The
International
ECHO awards
attract the best work of many of the world's top direct marketing professionals.
USPS earned its award for - what else? - a direct mail
campaign targeting the 2005 DMA Conference attendees
in Atlanta. One week before the event, USPS sent out a
Customized MarketMail die-cut of a giant peach that felt
and smelled like a real peach. The sensory experience
showcased some of direct mail's advantages over other
media. The campaign succeeded in winning over a tough
crowd, beating the projected response rate by 187 percent.
"We're very proud of our ECHO win - it's a good example of USPS practicing what it `peaches,'" said Chief Marketing Officer Anita Bizzotto.
Denver, CO, team improves mail flow,
saves money
 Denver PDC Electronic Technicians
Luis Vasquez, left, and Mike Sharpe
re-wire the flat sorting machine
automated tray conveyance system.
When an ad hoc crew
of electronic technicians
and Maintenance staff
put their heads together
recently, they helped the
Denver, CO, Processing
and Distribution Center
(P&DC) process flat mail
more efficiently while
saving $250,000.
The team removed a
flat sorting machine, reconfigured the remaining machines
and connected them to the automated tray conveyance
system in a way that improved efficiency and mail flow.
The project saved money, and they completed it in
4 weeks, with only a 4-hour interruption in Denver's mail
processing operations.
Electronic Technicians Mike Sharpe, Steve Beedle,
Kevin Hagglund, Luis Vasquez and Isador Ramirez did the
design, parts procurement, installation and re-wiring work.
Maintenance Mechanics Gordie Horton, Juan Rios, Ernie
Mares, Bill Rogers, Mark Howard and other staff did the
heavy lifting.
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