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Medicare integration

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Medicare integration
Explaining how it would benefit USPS retirees
4 hours ago
Are you prepared?
Hurricane season continues until Nov. 30
3 hours ago
Good old summertime
Video highlights State and County Fairs stamps
3 hours ago

Pass it on

Pass it on

News Quiz: Remember what you read?
This week’s quiz will test your knowledge of passports, mail and package volumes, Informed Delivery and more.
3 hours ago

Mile-high motors

Mile-high motors

Colorado VMF keeps mail, packages rolling
A USPS vehicle maintenance facility in Denver oversees the repairs and maintenance of more than 2,000 postal vehicles.
1 day ago

Easier than ever

Easier than ever

Use new method to update your info
The Postal Service is reminding you about a new method to provide the organization with your current contact information.
1 day ago

Hop hop hooray

Hop hop hooray

Video features Frogs stamps
The recent dedication ceremony for the Frogs stamps is highlighted in a new Postal Service video.
1 day ago

Scanning snapshot

News Briefs

Scanning snapshot

Business Connect also highlighted
Read about the Postal Service’s latest scanning snapshot and Business Connect Month.
1 day ago

Pushing the envelope

Pushing the envelope

Employee’s idea leads to change
A USPS employee used the IdeaSMART platform to alert the organization to outdated information on earnings statement envelopes.
1 day ago

‘Seems like yesterday’

‘Seems like yesterday’

Employee marks 50 years of service
Joshua Dial’s colleagues recently marked his milestone with a surprise celebration at the Charlotte, NC, Processing and Distribution Center, where he is based.
2 days ago

Recycling update

News Briefs

Recycling update

Market test, Link mobile highlighted, too
Read about the Sustainable Facility Update’s latest edition, a USPS market test and instructions on signing up for Link mobile.
2 days ago

Saving Skippy

Saving Skippy

Employee gives dog new leash on life
Letter Carrier Laura Domnick saves abandoned dog Skippy in Wilmington, DE
3 days ago

Mobile printing reminder

Mobile printing reminder

Feature available on USPS devices
Managed Print Services is reminding Postal Service employees about ePrint, a mobile printing system
3 days ago

Check it out

Check it out

Library to host LexisNexis training webinars
The USPS Library will host training webinars Tuesday, August 20, and Thursday, August 22, on using LexisNexis, an online research database available on Blue.
6 days ago

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  • By the numbers: 1,400: Number of USPS-owned buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places

Heroes’ Corner

  • Home safe

    Employee watches out for 6-year-old

    Aug. 21

    Home safe

    Employee watches out for 6-year-old
    Aug. 21 at midnight

    Rural Carrier Laurel Jansen was delivering mail on a spring afternoon in Dorr, MI, when she spotted a 6-year-old boy walking alone after getting off a school bus.

    Worried for the lad’s safety, Jansen offered to accompany him to his home. When they got there, he was locked out.

    The Postal Service employee called the boy’s school, which contacted his parents, who were on their way home at the time.

    Jansen stayed with the boy until his parents arrived.

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Best Practices

  • Talk to people

    Employee always on lookout for leads

    Aug. 19

    Talk to people

    Employee always on lookout for leads
    Aug. 19 at 12:28 p.m.

    Howie Kobrin never misses an opportunity to boost Business Connect.

    One example: While picking up his daughter from a newly opened dance studio last year, Kobrin, the customer services manager at Little Neck Station in Flushing, NY, struck up a conversation with the owner.

    “She mentioned that she wanted to spread the word that the dance studio was open,” he recalls.

    Kobrin knew what to do next: He submitted the owner’s contact information as a lead through Business Connect, which led to the studio signing up for a $7,000 Every Door Direct Mail campaign.

    Simple conversations like that have helped Kobrin bring in more than $1 million in Business Connect sales each year for the past four years.

    USPS is encouraging Postmasters and other customer services managers and supervisors to follow Kobrin’s lead in August, which is Business Connect Month.

    To help others promote the program, Kobrin offers these tips:

    • Get business cards from everyone. “If I see a competitor’s truck at a business, I stop in and talk with the owner or the manager and ask for a card. We could win shipping business from them,” he says.

    “I’ll also ask for cards from customers that come in and drop off bags and parcels. It may look like we have that person’s business, but they may be shipping with others as well.”

    • Don’t be afraid to seek leads outside of your ZIP Code. “Your ZIP gets credit, no matter where the business is,” he says.

    • Be polite and confident when talking with a potential customer. “Offering a service that will benefit them gives me confidence. When I walk in, I’m going in knowing I’m going to help them,” Kobrin says.

    “Emphasize that we can help them save on shipping costs and talk about other ways to help, such as our package pickup service. They don’t have to drag boxes into the Post Office.”

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On the Job

  • Legal eagle

    Inspector oversees security issues

    Aug. 16

    Legal eagle

    Inspector oversees security issues
    Aug. 16 at 10:52 a.m.

    My name is Keith Nusbaum, and I’m a postal inspector in the Postal Inspection Service’s Washington, DC, division. My job is to make sure USPS employees and customers have trust in the mail system and know that we are here to protect them.

    I’ve worked on a variety of investigations in my four years with the Inspection Service, including serving on a team that investigated mail fraud cases involving white collar crime and scams targeting the elderly. Currently, I’m on a detail assignment with global security, where I work on international mail matters. A primary focus is making sure the mail coming into the United States is safe and that criminals aren’t using the mail system to ship illegal drugs and goods.

    My postal career began with USPS, where I worked as a lawyer for four years before joining the Inspection Service in 2016. I made the switch to law enforcement to be able to implement the various security and safety policies that I helped develop on the postal side.

    I come from a postal family. My grandfather was a letter carrier and route supervisor in Toledo, OH, for 38 years. Other family members have also worked for the Postal Service.

    My free time is primarily spent with my family. My wife, Natalie, and I have two kids: a son, Calder, who is 18 months old, and a daughter, Coralie, who is 4.

    Playing ice hockey is one of my favorite pastimes. I’m also a pilot, and I’ve spent the past few years building my own four-seat airplane. I’m hoping to have it complete by 2021.

    I enjoy being a postal inspector because it’s a unique law enforcement role. I protect people and ensure the safe and secure delivery of mail.

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The List

  • In equal measure

    5 facts about women’s suffrage

    Aug. 20

    In equal measure

    5 facts about women’s suffrage
    Aug. 20 at 9:51 a.m.

    To help mark Women’s Equality Day on Monday, Aug. 26, here are five facts about the voting rights movement that inspired the annual commemoration.

    1. Women’s Equality Day honors the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Ratified Aug. 18, 1920, the amendment codified the idea of universal suffrage and granted women the right to vote. It was the single largest extension of democratic voting rights in the nation’s history.

    2. It was once argued that voting was bad for pregnant women. There were many arguments made against allowing women to vote, all of them unfounded. One such argument was that voting would jeopardize a woman’s pregnancy. A prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor once said the “responsibilities of suffrage” would be “harmful to both mother and child.”

    3. Susan B. Anthony voted illegally. Suffragette Susan B. Anthony and 15 other women voted in Rochester, NY, in the 1872 presidential election, almost 50 years before they were legally allowed to do so. Anthony was subsequently tried and convicted of illegal voting.

    4. Some women had the right to vote and then lost it. States such as Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New York allowed women to vote in the 1700s before stripping them of the right when they later re-wrote their state constitutions. New Jersey was the last state to allow women’s suffrage until banning the practice in 1807.

    5. Women’s suffrage has been honored with stamps. In addition to stamps honoring Anthony, women’s suffrage movement leaders Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Catt and Lucretia Mott have also appeared on a stamp. In 1970 and 1995, respectively, stamps were released celebrating the 19th Amendment’s 50th and 75th anniversaries.

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Mailbag

  • Laurie Allsup, Menlo, IA:

    I really loved “Fours legs, all heart,” the headline used for the coverage of the Military Working Dogs stamp dedication ceremony. The bond between handler and canine can never be fully understood until you have experienced it firsthand.

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