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The US Postal Service is weighing whether to require all customers of its Parcel Select program to use an electronic system that the agency hopes will help ease payment and verification for mail acceptance. In a proposed rule, the Postal Service also said its Electronic Verification System (e-VS) may be expanded for all users if it demonstrates cost savings and efficiencies during its initial rollout. E-VS is an electronic manifest program for tracking payments and verifying all Parcel Select mailings, and it is expected to replace an inefficient and complex paper filing database. Parcel Select is a ground delivery program for medium-to-large customers.

The US Postal Service’s high level of service performance remains constant through another measurement period. Its on-time overnight delivery of First-Class Mail earned a 95 percent performance score as measured independently by IBM Consulting Services and announced today during the agency’s Board of Governors meeting in Washington, D.C. This accomplishment marks the 11th consecutive measurement period in which the organization has scored 95 percent or better for on-time overnight delivery of First-Class Mail.

Definition of and U.S. Policy Towards Extraterritorial Offices of Exchange (ETOEs)

An Extra-territorial Office of Exchange (ETOEs) is defined as an office or facility operated by or in connection with a postal operator outside its national territory on the territory of another country. These offices are established by postal operators for commercial purposes to draw business in markets outside their own national territory. As of 2005, there were more than twenty ETOEs operating within the United States.