February 18, 2008
February 11, 2008
February 10, 2008
USPS joins HBO to promote John Adams miniseries
USPS and Home Box Office (HBO) are jointly promoting the upcoming cable network’s miniseries, John Adams, and National Card and Letter Writing Month.
USPS joins HBO to promote John Adams miniseries
The HBO production is based on the book John Adams, by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough. The best-selling biography of the founding father centers on the letters Adams and his wife, Abigail, wrote each other during their courtship and 54-year marriage.
Beginning this week, USPS launches a multi-faceted 60-day campaign highlighting the HBO series’ focus on the Adams family letters and encouraging Americans to rediscover letter writing, especially in March during National Card and Letter Writing Month.
The USPS campaign includes a national cancellation featuring an Adams quote, “Let us dare to read, think, speak and write,” and a new website — www.usps.com/poweroftheletter. Postal receipts from point-of-service terminals and Automated Postal Centers will include the Adams quote and the website. Standees and window clings will appear in nearly 12,000 Post Offices around the country promoting the website and the miniseries.
“We’ve been delivering the power of the written word ─ including those letters written by Adams ─ for more than 230 years,” said Joanne Giordano, vice president, Public Affairs and Communications. “As a nation, we cherish the letters of great Americans because they help us understand our common history. This campaign will allow us to promote our brand, our products and the lost art of letter writing.”
HBO will premiere its seven-part miniseries with two episodes on Sunday evening, March 16. Episodes 3-7 will air the subsequent five Sundays, with the series ending on April 20.
source: USPS News Link
USPS joins HBO to promote John Adams miniseries
The HBO production is based on the book John Adams, by Pulitzer Prize winner David McCullough. The best-selling biography of the founding father centers on the letters Adams and his wife, Abigail, wrote each other during their courtship and 54-year marriage.
Beginning this week, USPS launches a multi-faceted 60-day campaign highlighting the HBO series’ focus on the Adams family letters and encouraging Americans to rediscover letter writing, especially in March during National Card and Letter Writing Month.
The USPS campaign includes a national cancellation featuring an Adams quote, “Let us dare to read, think, speak and write,” and a new website — www.usps.com/poweroftheletter. Postal receipts from point-of-service terminals and Automated Postal Centers will include the Adams quote and the website. Standees and window clings will appear in nearly 12,000 Post Offices around the country promoting the website and the miniseries.
“We’ve been delivering the power of the written word ─ including those letters written by Adams ─ for more than 230 years,” said Joanne Giordano, vice president, Public Affairs and Communications. “As a nation, we cherish the letters of great Americans because they help us understand our common history. This campaign will allow us to promote our brand, our products and the lost art of letter writing.”
HBO will premiere its seven-part miniseries with two episodes on Sunday evening, March 16. Episodes 3-7 will air the subsequent five Sundays, with the series ending on April 20.
source: USPS News Link
February 04, 2008
Commentary: Postal Service readies for Sarbanes-Oxley Act
The 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act includes a mandate that the U.S. Postal Service comply with Securities and Exchange Commission rules that implement the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by fiscal 2010. The act requires corporations to report on the effectiveness of their internal controls, with the goal being to ensure the accuracy of financial reporting. The Postal Service is the first federal agency mandated to comply with the act and thus faces unique challenges
FederalTimes.com
February 03, 2008
Postal agencies look to technology to replace business disappearing to technology
"Marty Sellers once needed about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year. Sellers, 40, now pays most of his bills online and receives financial statements electronically. Because many people around the world are like Sellers, the U.S. Postal Service and its counterparts in other countries are tapping technology to cut costs and expand into electronic services - including services designed to attract more junk mail."
lohud.com| Journal News
lohud.com| Journal News
February 02, 2008
Mail found at carrier's home
WILMINGTON -- Somewhere around 4,300 to 4,500 items of undelivered mail were recently found stashed inside the home of a substitute mail carrier.
Joliet (IL) Herald News
Joliet (IL) Herald News
Postal Worker Gets Prison for Threatening to Shoot Supervisor
On September 27, 2007, Jessica Delaine was working as a U.S. Postal employee at the Meridian Main Post Office when she got into a verbal argument with her supervisor. Eventually, the supervisor requested that Delaine clock off work and leave the premises. Approximately 45 minutes later, she entered the Meridian Main Post Office, revealed a pistol to her co-workers, and told them she was going to wait by an office building and shoot her supervisor when he left work. After talking to her, Delaine’s co-workers convinced her to leave the premises
source: US Attorney's Office via PostalReporter.com
source: US Attorney's Office via PostalReporter.com
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