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US Postal Reform Hearing Possible for Sept 3

Posted by | Aug 19, 2003 | |

The U.S. Senate Governmental Affairs Committee may hold a hearing Sept 3 to discuss the recommendations of the presidential postal reform commission.
A hearing has been discussed but will not be officially scheduled until all members of the committee are served with notice of the proposed date, a committee representative said yesterday. Although the Senate is in its summer recess and returns to session Sept 2.

The presidential postal commission sent its recommendations to the White House at the end of July. Proposed reforms in the report called for increased automation, fewer employees, changes to the collective bargaining process and increased power to close unprofitable post offices.

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Airlines compete for mail business under a series of new USPS performance-based contracts

Posted by | Aug 9, 2003 | |

Several airlines have begun competing for mail business under a series of new U.S. Postal Service performance-based contracts. But optimism about significant revenue improvements is tempered by ongoing passenger airline security restrictions on parcel size mail and volume declines in the postal service’s air express products. The new contracts are a departure from the old practice of equally sharing business among air carriers, and part of the U.S. Postal Service’s effort to transform itself into a modem, cost efficient, self-sustaining enterprise. USPS said it expects the contracts, which became effective June 28, to increase efficiency and improve service.

“It’s the most dynamic change in 20 years,” USPS spokesman Mark Saunders said. “Up until now the airlines have looked at this business as a given. Now they have to earn it. If they don’t perform, they will lose it to their competitors.” USPS uses more than 15,000 commercial passenger, flights to move about 170 million pieces of mail each day. Direct marketers depend heavily on the USPS for parcel, expedited and global delivery services.

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Commission recommends that USPS drop E-Commerce

Posted by | Aug 4, 2003 | |

The Postal Service should drop its e-commerce initiatives and spend its resources strictly on mail delivery, the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service has concluded in a new report.

The commission also suggested the Postal Service consider outsourcing its IT management along with other high-cost functions, such as real estate management and vehicle maintenance.

The report, released last week, said USPS e-commerce ventures have produced largely disappointing results and drained time and resources that could have been spent improving traditional postal services.

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Asian Posts, USPS, Australia form express alliance

Posted by | Aug 3, 2003 | |

Postal services in Japan, the United States, South Korea, China, Hong Kong and Australia have formed an alliance to speed up express parcel delivery as competition sharpens with private-sector couriers. Japan Post, are quoted on saying, the entities reached an agreement at a meeting in June in Washington to expand areas for next-day delivery and for services to set delivery times as well as to reinforce parcel tracking among others. Japan Post offers express courier services under the EMS brand.

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