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The U.S. Postal Service has been named one of the 50 Best Companies for Minorities for the fifth year in a row by leading business magazine FORTUNE. The Postal Service ranked sixth on the list this year. The rankings appear in the current issue.

“This is a great honor and I’m extremely proud of every employee of the Postal Service. Dedication to the values represented by diversity has helped us build an organisation that is stronger because of it,” commented Postmaster General John E. Potter.

The Postal Service has filed two experimental mail classification cases with the Postal Rate Commission proposing Negotiated Service Agreements (NSA) with BankOne and Discover Financial Services.

“Bringing these two negotiated service agreements forward shows that we are committed to providing more pricing innovation to the marketplace,” said the Postal Service’s Chief Marketing Officer Anita J. Bizzotto.

The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors approved several major capital projects today at its monthly meeting.

The Board approved funding for Surface Visibility, the third phase of the Surface Air Support System (SASS). Surface Visibility is the third piece of the overall Transportation Visibility strategy. In the first phase, an infrastructure was developed to track FedEx and Amtrak shipments. In the second phase, SASS was expanded to include commercial air visibility. In this phase, the systems will track several visibility points from container loading to the unloading of both Postal Service and postal customer trailers. Wireless scanners will be used to capture data. The system will be deployed at 129 facilities.