MANY thanks to all the wonderful people who attended the PCC Day event this year!  It was a successful day filled with great customers, energetic vendors, skilled presenters and enthusiastic guest speakers.  Door prizes associated with this year’s theme, “Stronger Together,” helped add a lot of fun to the festivities, not to mention the great BBQ lunch provided to all attendees!

One of the true highlights of the day was when USPS District Manager, Larry Diegel, officially announced that the Central Indiana Postal Customer Council won a Bronze Award for their PCC efforts in 2013-2014!  The members of the board that were present came forward to have their group photo taken with the award.

We are indeed
“STRONGER TOGETHER!”

Gary Soultz, PCC Co-Chair, Greg White, PCC Co-Chair, Larry Diegel, USPS District Manager

PCC Board Members: Greg White, Shane Van Fossan, Joe McKinney, Donna Hoffman, Gary Soultz, Yvonne Matthews

Mailing Industry Stakeholders:

Postmaster General Pat Donahoe issued a letter and video today to assure mailers that the Postal Service is not going out of business or be privatized. The Postal Service plays a vital role in America’s economy and society. This past year USPS delivered 167.6 billion pieces of mail and sustains a $1 trillion mailing industry that employs 8 million people.

This communication will bring you the up-to-date steps the Postal Service is taking on the legislative, network optimization and wages and benefits fronts to ensure the financial health of USPS now and in years to come. The PMG continues to urge Congress to allow the move from six-day delivery schedule to five days per week.  On the retail front, the USPS is studying whether to close up to 3,700 retail facilities, and we continue to consolidate delivery routes. USPS is also developing a proposal to adjust service standards and Critical Entry Times for First-Class and Periodicals to allow the streamlining of the mail processing network.

This is a very important message that needs to be shared with your members and co-workers.  Please feel free to distribute and post on your website.

Please click to view the video and letter.  Also, the video can be downloaded for your convenience.

Susan M. LaChance
Vice President
Consumer and Industry Affairs

We acknowledge and understand your frustration with the Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) issues you have shared with us over the last few weeks in certain pockets of the country.  We will not bother you with the whys or reasons as you are more concerned with the how and when it will be fixed.

Our Headquarters Network Operations and MTE offices have undertaken several steps to fill gaps in our shortages and improve our processes where they have broken.  The demand for certain products is at a four year high which adds to the issue.

To start with, we purchased 200,000 presswood pallets in the final weeks of FY 2011 to meet needs till our FY 2012 orders started arriving.  Currently, our FY 2012 orders of pallets, sacks, and flat tubs are arriving and entering the mail stream.  We expect the first orders of trays and sleeves to start arriving very soon.

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