2. SECURE ELECTRONIC SERVICES:
DELIVERING THE REACH AND AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE TO CUSTOMERS IN THE ELECTRONIC WORLD
The PosteCS^®, NetPost.Certified^™, and the marketplace-independent Postal Certificate Authority (CA) programs were discontinued due to a slower than anticipated adoption rate. Although interest was very high with a number of initial champions of these two services, the long start-up time did not allow the Postal Service to recapture its investment quickly enough.

The Postal Service’s Electronic Postmark^® (EPM) digitally time-stamps and signs electronic files and detects any tampering of the postmarked document or transaction. The EPM program was outsourced to a private sector company, AuthentiDate, where marketing and operating expenses were reduced by over 90 percent.