Last fiscal year, even before she was chosen to be the future the Postmaster General, Megan J. Brennan was the U.S. Postal Service's highest paid employee.
But don't fret for retiring Postmaster General Pat Donahoe. He will leave USPS on Feb. 1 with a pension having an estimated present value of more than $4 million, according to a financial report the agency filed Friday.
Dancing penguins, flashing holiday lights and a reminder to order shipping boxes and stamps.
Those are the highlights of a new holiday smartphone application that the U.S. Postal Service launched Monday with the goal of attracting more business from direct-mail marketers.
As part of this year’s holiday campaign, the agency will show a different animation each week when its blue collection boxes are scanned.
Patrick Donahoe, the Postmaster General and CEO of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), will end his 39-year career when he retires on Feb. 1, 2015. He will be replaced by Megan Brennan, current COO of the USPS, and the first woman to hold the office.
The U.S. Postal Service had a bang-up October, with domestic mail volume up nearly 7 percent over the same month last year.
The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has announced that Postmaster General and CEO Patrick R. Donahoe has decided to retire February 1, 2015, after 39 years with the Postal Service. Megan J. Brennan, the current COO of the Postal Service, has been chosen to replace Donahoe.
David Partenheimer, manager, media relations, at the U.S. Postal Service, has issued the following statement on a recent cyber security intrusion into some of the Postal Service's information systems.
The Postal Service will be delivering packages seven days a week in major cities and high-volume areas starting November 17 through Christmas Day in response to expected double-digit package volume growth. "During the holidays, no carrier makes more deliveries to more places than the Postal Service, and this year, we’re raising the bar with enhanced tracking and Sunday delivery," said Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe.
SUSSEX, WI—Current Chairman of the Senate for Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Senator Tom Carper, recently shared his views with Republic 3.0 on keeping the U.S. Postal Service viable in the 21st Century.
While we agree with Senator Carper that Congress needs to act during the lame-duck session following the November elections, we are also adamant to make sure the reform is meaningful for mailers, rather than making the current situation worse.
We disagree with his assumptions related to pricing.
A lot of ink has been spilled discussing and cussing the U.S. Postal Service's plan to close 82 mail processing centers next year. David Williams, USPS' vice president of networks, showed (the following) slides in a recent presentation to mailers about the "Phase II" consolidations scheduled to begin in January.
Despite the fact that the U.S. Postal Service lost almost $5 billion in fiscal year 2013, Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Ruth Goldway spent nearly $40,000 on travel, The Washington Free Beacon reports.
Goldway and the PRC office have consistently defended her travel, telling The Washington Post in a statement that the chairman "attends only those [conferences and meetings] that are beneficial to the Commission and the Postal Service in terms of sharing information about activities in the U.S."
