Tag: North America

USPS wins White House Environmental Awards

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

The U.S. Postal Service has won two prestigious environmental awards – one for a revenue-generating recycling program and another for an E-85 alternative fuel project. The White House Closing the Circle awards recognize federal agencies for outstanding achievements that result in significant contributions to the environment. These two awards represent the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Closing the Circle awards the Postal Service has won since 1995.

The awards were bestowed today by the Office of the Federal Environmental Executive at a ceremony at the White House.

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New postal plant could speed up service for USPS

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

The U.S. Postal Service could alleviate problems with mail service in New Mexico by building a new postal plant on land it owns in Albuquerque. So says the American Postal Workers Union.

The Postal Service has been unable to keep up with growth in the Albuquerque and Rio Rancho areas — much less in the rest of the state — in the past few years.

Eugene Gabaldon is a spokesman for the union. He says a new plant on the 43 acres of Postal Service land in Albuquerque’s south valley could go a long way in fixing those problems.

U.S. Representative Tom Udall and U.S. Senator Pete Domenici say the proposal is worth considering, but a Postal Service spokesman — Paul Basile — says the existing Albuquerque plant can manage mail processing operations now and in the future.

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Mail the best way to reach consumers: Pitney Bowes study

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

A new study claims that, despite today’s digital world, consumers clearly prefer mail over other communications vehicles such as e-mail for receiving new product information and offerings as well as confidential business communications including bank statements and financial reports.

The study, the fourth mail preference survey commissioned by Stamford, CT-based Pitney Bowes since March 1999, found that the majority of consumers (73 percent) prefer mail for receiving new product announcements or offers from companies they do business with, as compared to 18 percent for e-mail. Mail was also preferred by 70 percent of respondents for receiving unsolicited information on products and services from companies with which they are not currently doing business.

For confidential communications such as bills, bank statements and financial reports, respondents overwhelmingly preferred mail (86 percent) as their channel of choice, as compared with 10 percent for e-mail. This response is virtually identical to the response in the 2004 survey, which also showed consumer preference for mail at 86 percent.

The survey also found that consumers are less likely to discard unopened mail (31 percent) – including new product brochures, catalogs or other advertising materials – than they are to discard unsolicited e-mails about new products (53.2 percent).

The survey also probed consumers on specific advantages they see in mail versus unsolicited e-mail and telephone calls.

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BCC Software Certified to Offer USPS Suite Link Technology Processingas Part of BCC Data Services

Posted by | Jun 12, 2007 | |

BCC Software, a BÖWE BELL + HOWELL company, is one of the first companies to be recognized by the United States Postal Service ® as a Suite Link ™ Certified Software Distributor.

Because of this certification, and thanks to BCC’s status as a USPS ® NCOA Link® Full Service Provider (FSP) Licensee, mailers now can enjoy the benefits of Suite Link processing added to any mailing lists that are submitted to BCC for NCOA Link FSP processing.

Access to the Suite Link technology product has been added to BCC Data Services via Mail Manager 2010 and Mail Manager 2010 LE, BCC’s flagship mailpreparation products, and the free downloadable Data Services Manager application, which connects any mailer (regardless of their mailprep software choice) to BCC’s comprehensive suite of addressupdating services.

The Suite Link product helps further cleanse business addresses during NCOA Link processing, ensuring more efficient and streamlined delivery. The Suite Link process analyzes business address records that are identified during ZIP + 4 ® encoding as highrise buildings with missing or incorrect secondary information; and, where possible, appends or corrects those records with the appropriate secondary suite information.

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Occupational Safety and Health Administration partnership USPS

Posted by | Jun 11, 2007 | |

U.S. Postal Service employees are experiencing fewer ergonomic injuries as a result of a 2003 partnership between the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the American Postal Workers Union (APWU), the National Postal Mail Handlers Union (NPMHU) and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS).

The organizations have released Examples of Good Ergonomics Practices at the U.S. Postal Service which outlines the achievements of the partnership and the steps taken to help prevent ergonomic-related injuries in the workplace.

The document illustrates several examples that could have resulted in an ergonomic-related injury and the proactive measures taken to correct the situation before a workplace injury occurred. Several of the protective measures cost less than USD 100 to implement.

Once the Ergonomic Risk Reduction Process (ERRP) is initiated, an ergonomist uses the 10-step process to identify jobs with high rates of MSDs. Those jobs are then broken down into tasks and steps. The ergonomic risk is then linked to the steps before identifying an implementation plan, obtaining feedback, and determining the cost to implement the solution.

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