Revenue Protection

If the Postal Service is to recover from its current financial problems, it needs revenue. In addition to identifying additional sources of revenue, it must protect the revenue it is already due whether it comes in from the post office window, meters, online postage accounts, or from Permit accounts for business mailers. Ensuring that the Postal Service collects all of its revenue will help secure the agency’s position as a trusted service provider for years to come.

That’s where you come in. What do you think are the greatest revenue leakage risks the Postal Service faces, and what are the best ways to protect that revenue? Now is the time to share your thoughts and help the agency.

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Franking Machines Says:
May 31st, 2010 at 8:45 am
There is a reason why the postal services has been pulled down with a financial crisis. People are turning towards more efficient and cost effective alternatives. People will not wait for anyone, to render and improve their services. They are brutal and therefore will move on, leaving your organization injured without any business. This is the similar case in the postal services, the leak outs have been major and it might be difficult for the postal services to regain its balance. But it should be able to learn from its mistakes and not ignore it.
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Brutus Says:
May 10th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
5-10-10

To Whom This May Concern,

For the past twenty five years I have been employed by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) as a letter carrier but since today is my day off and I’m “off the clock” I am, at this time, a postal customer.

Here are a few suggestions that, I know, will contribute to the USPS getting out of the “red”:

* Instead of laying off workforce employees, lay off managers and supervisors. I believe it was last year or the year before that United Parcel Service (UPS) layed off 1,800 supervisors and managers and showed a profit the following year. We do NOT need 3 to 4 managers/supervisors per postal installation as we do in some post offices. (Pebble Hills P.O., El Paso, Texas, for example, has 1 station manager and sometimes 3 supervisors. There have been times when there was only 1 member of management present and business was well taken care of ).

*STOP paying out bonuses to ANY and ALL members of management.

*Millions of dollars can and will be saved if grievances won by postal employees and monetary awards are made to said employees are paid to the employee(s) winning the grievance not by the USPS but by the supervisor(s) who violated the contract thus forcing a grievance. Think about it, if you violate the contract and , for example, a letter carrier is awarded $400.00, that $400.00 comes out of YOUR paycheck and NOT from the USPS. I’m sure that our contract will be followed to the letter and the USPS will save hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars.

*Get rid of the Central Forwarding System (CFS). If Party “A” mails something to Party “B” and the item is returned to Party “A” for whatever reason (No such number; insufficient address; etc,), then let Party “A” find where Party “B” has gone (or what their complete address is, etc) and then let Party “A” pay new postage to resend their item to Party ”B”. DON’T forward and/or return mail at no additional fee!

*In the past when the price of a First Class letter was raised, the price of a post card was dropped. What kind of baloney is that? How about EVERYONE pay the same postage rate? I don’t care if it’s a “Non-Profit” organization, a church group, a disabled group, utility company – EVERYONE pay the SAME rate. Here are some examples of letters I personally have delivered and the RIDICULOUS amount of postage paid and keep in mind that when delivering these pieces of mail they were NOT delivered to every house on my route (that is, 100% coverage):
George W. Bush
Presidential Center
P.O. Box 560887
Dallas, TX 75356 .05 postage

Republican National Committee
310 First Street, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003 .10 postage
Newt Gingrich
Former Speaker
Renewing American Leadership
P.O. Box 1224
Merrifield, VA 22116-1224 .05 postage

John Boehner
Republican Leader
“State of the Union Survey”
320 First Street, S.E.
Washington, DC 20003 .05 postage

Please keep in mind also that many of these letters and large envelopes weighed over one ounce and required .17 additional postage. In the case of a letter weighing over one ounce where the postage should have been .61, the postage was .05 The USPS lost .56 on that one piece of mail. How many organizations NATIONWIDE mailed how many pieces of mail at a “discounted” rate?

*And while I’m on the subject of postage……In 2008 Rank and File members of the House and Senate earned an average of $169,300.00…..and they pay ZERO postage for their political mailings! If anyone can afford to pay for their postage it these members of the House and Senate. Go back a few paragraphs and have EVERYONE pay the SAME amount of postage.

Enough said? For now, yes. Thank you for this opportunity for this postal customer to express his ideas on how to save the USPS money.

In His service,
Arturo J. Ortiz Sr.
El Paso, TX
aortiz2@elp.rr.com
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jrkakapastateradio Says:
January 7th, 2010 at 9:27 am
I simply had to add this comment on Revenue Protection
compliments of the U.S. Census Bureau. See the third
statement on the About the Census Form page….

10 questions. 10 minutes. Discover how we collect the data that matters.

Every question we ask is for a specific reason, to ensure response accuracy or to determine seats in Congress.

NOTE: YOU CANNOT FILL OUT THE FORM ONLINE.

Viola! Revenue!!!!!!!!!!!
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jrkakapastateradio Says:
January 4th, 2010 at 9:09 am
Happy New Tax year, affecting a new USPS Fiscal Year, with a new comment on revenue.
The Health Bill Overhaul** will begin with serious
implications to USPS mailings.

So, I just rx’d my HighMark BC/BS (mailed) newsletter,
“Looking Healthward”. A reminder of my other posts
regarding “Lemonade”, among other technologies giving change to mail volumes, and information exchange, ie.
your business model called your j-o-b….
The article depicts a “gray hair” reading his mail,
and the caption of the artilce explains how the subscriber will soon, not be getting these pictured letters in the mail, along with the newsletter, the policy paperwork, and the bills, and the EOB’s, and I’m assuming all “utter” mail the Post Office currently handles foir the health care industry. (BTW) the gray hair is smiling!
They go on to explaing that this is “all part of (our) health care overhaul “go-green” (initiative to
reduce administration expense) blah-blah-blah.

Additionally, the article describes this subject mail as “clutter”!!!!

Just a note on e-delivery……. and Revenue.

** Health Care Subscriber Realignment Initative Program (HCS-RIP)