US Postmaster General John E. Potter delivers message to mailing industry
On Monday, March 21, the Postmaster General John E. Potter General will deliver the keynote address to the 2005 National Postal Forum (NPF). The mailing industry leaders in attendance will hear a progress report on the Postal Service’s Transformation Plan, the status of Postal reform, and the USPS Governor’s recent direction for management to prepare a rate case filing with the Postal Rate Commission. Potter’s 8 a.m. speech during the first general session of the NPF opens the premier mailing industry symposium.
Since Potter became the 72nd Postmaster General of the United States in June, 2001, he has led the Postal Service in achieving dramatic productivity increases and consistent savings, while reaching record levels of customer service and satisfaction. Potter’s blueprint for change, outlined in the April 2002 Transformation Plan, has been cited as an example of positive steps the agency is taking independent of proposed changes to its statutory operating charter.
For 2005, the Postal Service produced better-than-expected First Quarter results with a significant increase in mail volume and net income of $1.7 billion. Since June, 2002 the Postal Service has kept postal rates stable. Potter has pledged that rates will remain steady until 2006.
The 28-year agency veteran is only the sixth career employee to lead the world’s largest postal system. A Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Potter earned a master’s degree in leadership. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fordham University.
About The National Postal Forum
The National Postal Forum (NPF), a not-for-profit educational corporation, was established in 1968 by a group of major postal customers/mailers who were committed to an ongoing partnership with the United States Postal Service. The Forum’s goal, then as now, is to provide education to business mailers and communication/feedback between the USPS and its business customers for a more responsive and efficient mail communications system.
Since 1775, the U.S. Postal Service has connected friends, families, neighbors and businesses by mail. It is an independent federal agency that visits 142 million homes and businesses every day and is the only service provider delivering to every address in the nation. The Postal Service receives no taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues solely from the sale of postage, products and services. With annual revenues of $69 billion, it is the world’s leading provider of mailing and delivery services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the world. The U.S. Postal Service delivers more than 46 percent of the world’s mail volume — some 206 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year-and serves seven million customers each day at its 37,000 retail locations nationwide.
