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The art of Emilio

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The art of Emilio
Stamps celebrate colorful works
17 hours ago
Bite-proof your life
Tips to prevent dog attacks
17 hours ago
Dads and grads season
Post Office offer special promotions
17 hours ago

Let’s talk about men

Let’s talk about men

Health webinar to be held June 18
Postal Service employees can learn about how prevention and early detection is important for routine health maintenance.
18 hours ago

‘Any Dog Can Bite’

‘Any Dog Can Bite’

USPS begins annual awareness, safety campaign
More than 5,800 Postal Service employees were attacked by dogs last year, an increase compared with 2019.
4 days ago
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Shipping boost

Shipping boost

Employee’s tip leads to new revenue
A lead from a Pennsylvania employee has resulted in a shipping deal worth more than $2.8 million for the Postal Service.
4 days ago

Male call

Male call

Men’s Health Week begins June 14
National Men’s Health Week, observed each year before Father’s Day, provides an opportunity for men to focus on being healthier.
4 days ago

When two paths cross

When two paths cross

Authors share pen-pal friendship, love of mail
Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda regularly speak to school groups about how one letter sparked their lifelong friendship.
5 days ago
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Distinctive vision

Distinctive vision

Stamps honor artist Emilio Sanchez
Emilio Sanchez combined naturalism and abstraction to create architectural paintings and lithographs.
5 days ago

It’s about time

It’s about time

News Quiz: How much do you remember?
Test your knowledge of emergency federal employee leave, planned price changes and other newsworthy topics.
5 days ago

‘Bravery and sacrifice’

‘Bravery and sacrifice’

USPS honors Japanese American soldiers
The Postal Service honored one of the Second World War’s most distinguished fighting units last week when the organization dedicated the Go for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WWII stamp.
6 days ago

Higher and higher

Higher and higher

Health plan webinar to be held June 14
Postal Service employees can participate in an upcoming webinar to learn about high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) and whether the plans are right for you.
6 days ago

Scanning snapshot

News Briefs

Scanning snapshot

Bulletin also highlighted
Check out this week’s scanning snapshot and read about Postal Bulletin’s latest issue.
6 days ago

Robo tech

Robo tech

Continuous Improvement helps promote AGVs
Automated guided vehicles are so effective at improving Postal Service plant operations that one employee is singing their praises. Literally.
7 days ago

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Heroes’ Corner

  • Wife saver

    Employee lets man know his spouse is hurt

    June 14

    Wife saver

    Employee lets man know his spouse is hurt
    June 14 at midnight

    Letter Carrier Christopher Surla was recently delivering mail in Metairie, LA, when he came upon a customer who’d fallen while taking a walk in her neighborhood.

    Surla rushed to the woman’s house around the corner to let her husband know she was injured.

    The man took his wife to an emergency room for treatment of a cut that required stitches.

    He later contacted USPS to acknowledge “plenty of positive things” employees like Surla do.

    “Thanks to you and your people,” he wrote. “God bless the USA.”

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On the Move

  • Climbing the ranks

    Executive, manager news

    June 8

    Climbing the ranks

    Executive, manager news
    June 8 at 9:10 a.m.

    Here’s a look at some recent changes in the Postal Service’s leadership ranks:

    • Judith Adams was named enterprise technology services director at USPS headquarters in Washington, DC.  She previously served as information technology managed services director.

    • Taylor Agnello was named surface logistics programs manager. She previously served as New York Division’s logistics integration and support manager.

    • Dan Anschutz, the Eagan, MN, Accounting Service Center manager, will retire June 18 after more than 35 years with USPS. Rachel Johnson, the Eagan Solutions Center manager, was named acting Accounting Service Center manager.

    • Hadi Alsegaf was named the chief information officer organization’s technology management office director at headquarters. He previously served as the organization’s client services manager.

    • Melissa Barber was named payroll executive manager in Eagan. She previously served as senior payroll accountant.

    • Jeffrey Becker, international operations director at headquarters, retired May 14 after 35 years with the Postal Service. Robert J. Francis, international processing manager, is serving as international operations director on an acting basis.

    • Brian “Keith” Blane was named Indianapolis Postmaster. He previously served as Chicago District’s Post Office operations manager.

    • Vicki Bosch was named pricing and acceptance technology services director at headquarters. She previously served as commercial systems director.

    • Lisa Resnick Brown was named field accounting executive manager in Rochester, NY. She previously served as senior field accountant.

    • Hung Bui was named endpoint technology support director at headquarters. He previously served as enterprise computing support manager.

    • John P. Byrne was named finance and payment technology services director at headquarters. He previously served as applications executive director.

    • Jake R. Campbell was named letter and flat planning and implementation executive manager in Lakeland, FL. He previously served as workforce analytics and research manager.

    • Omar Coleman was named national operations command center director at headquarters. He previously served as Capital Metro Area’s delivery programs support manager.

    • Kirby Cothren, fleet management director at headquarters, retired May 31 after 33 years with USPS.

    • Timothy R. Countee Jr. was named financial business solutions director at headquarters. He previously served as financial systems manager.

    • Linda Crawford was named California District 4 manager. She previously served as Western Pacific Area’s delivery programs support manager.

    • Cathrinamar “Cathrina” Dagdagan, Bay-Valley District’s finance manager, was named the Oakland, CA, Processing and Distribution Center’s acting plant manager.

    • Jason R. DeChambeau was named strategic planning and implementation senior director at headquarters. He previously served as processing operations director.

    • Han T. Dinh was named vehicle center of excellence manager in Merrifield, VA. He previously served as vehicle engineering manager.

    • Ray Donahue was named labor law managing counsel at headquarters. He previously served as employment law chief counsel.

    • Angela R. Dyer was named commerce and marketing technology services director. She previously served as business acceptance solutions director.

    • Heather L. Dyer was named retail operations director at headquarters. She previously served as identity and access management director, a role now held by Lynne Mitchell, who previously served as cybersecurity operations director.

    • Roderick D. Eves was named Merit Systems Protection Board unit lead in St. Louis. He previously served as deputy managing counsel.

    • Eric Faber was named Atlantic Area’s finance and budget executive manager. He previously served as Eastern Area’s controller.

    • Ric Gaudet was named New England Division’s logistics operations director. He previously served as Northeast Area’s network operations manager.

    • Carmen C. Gil was named endpoint technology innovation director at headquarters. She previously served as technical integration programs manager.

    • Donna D. Gill was named safety and health field operations executive manager in North Reading, MA. She previously served as Northeast Area’s safety manager.

    • William P. Gilbert was named maintenance implementation west executive manager in Denver. He previously served as Western Area’s maintenance operations manager.

    • Justin Glass was named fleet management director at headquarters. He previously served as operations industrial engineering executive manager.

    • Shelaine Grese was named surface transportation center manager at headquarters. She previously served as Indianapolis Surface Transportation Center manager.

    • Erich H. Henegar was named a maintenance implementation executive manager in St. Petersburg, FL. He previously served as maintenance operations manager for Coastal Southeast and Mid-Atlantic divisions.

    • Fharon Hicks was named retail and delivery analytics and insights director at headquarters. He previously served as operations performance diagnostics and visualization executive manager.

    • Garrett Hoyt was named the chief information officer organization’s services executive director at headquarters. He previously served as the organization’s client services manager.

    • Patrick Ibbetson, Pacific Area network operations manager, was named acting Lakeshores Division logistics operations director.

    • Frederick L. Jackson III was named asset maintenance planning, performance and support executive manager in Norman, OK. He previously served as Oklahoma City Maintenance Technical Support Center manager.

    • Leonetta J. Jackson was named human resources technology services director in San Mateo, CA. She previously served as the San Mateo Information Technology Solutions Center’s manager.

    • Lisa M. Jackson was named Western Processing and Logistics Region’s finance and budget executive manager. She previously served as Pacific Area controller.

    • Christina A. Johnson was named safety and health programs and policy executive manager at headquarters. She previously served as safety awareness program manager.

    • Leslie E. Johnson-Frick was named Post Office operations director at headquarters. She previously served as Mid-Carolinas district manager.

    • William A. Jones IV was named cybersecurity engineering director at headquarters. He previously served as cybersecurity risk director.

    • Cindy Kaspriskie was named the chief information officer organization’s client services director in Wilkes-Barre, PA. She previously served as the Wilkes-Barre Solution Center senior manager.

    • Peter Klausner was named emerging business technology director at headquarters. He previously served as digital media manager.

The List

  • Heroes on two fronts

    6 facts about new WWII stamp

    June 8

    Heroes on two fronts

    6 facts about new WWII stamp
    June 8 at 9:05 a.m.

    Here are six facts about the Postal Service’s new Go for Broke: Japanese American Soldiers of WWII stamps.

    1. The stamp was a long time coming. Go for Broke is the result of 16 years of persistent effort by the Stamp Our Story Coalition, made up largely of the family and friends of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. While the stamp is meant to honor all the 33,000 Japanese American men and women who served during World War II, Go for Broke was the motto of the 442nd, the most decorated unit of its size and length of duty in the history of the U.S. military.

    2. The soldiers fought under a cloud of suspicion. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were not permitted to enlist in the military. Some draft-age ROTC students in Hawaii — many of whom had been first responders at Pearl Harbor — did not let that stop them: They formed Varsity Victory Volunteers, working as a noncombat unit with Army engineers. The volunteers became an integral part of the 442nd when the Army changed its discriminatory policy in 1943.

    3. The stamp image is of a “typical” Go for Broke soldier. Like so many of his comrades in the 442nd, Shiroku “Whitey” Yamamoto, a native of Hawaii, was a nisei, or child of Japanese immigrants. Nisei from Hawaii represented a disproportionately large number of Japanese Americans who fought in the war. The image is based on a photo of the private first class at a train station in the French village of Touet de L’Escarene. Before his death in 2018, Yamamoto was a decades-long volunteer at the U.S. Army Museum of Hawaii in Honolulu.

    4. The 442nd was covered in glory. Honors bestowed on the unit include 21 Medals of Honor, more than 4,000 Purple Hearts, 29 Distinguished Service Crosses, 588 Silver Stars and more than 4,000 Bronze Stars. “You fought not only the enemy, but you fought prejudice,” President Harry S. Truman said on the 442nd’s return to the United States. “And you have won. Keep up that fight, and we will continue to win.”

    5. The stamp got bipartisan — and even foreign — support. Democrats and Republicans haven’t agreed on much since the stamp campaign began, but they did agree on the stamp’s importance, and the project enjoyed support from both sides of the aisle. The support for a tribute wasn’t only on these shores, either: French citizens in the areas freed by the 442nd also encouraged the honor.

    6. There’s so much more to know. Further information about the 442nd can be found in books such as “The Go for Broke Spirit, Vols. 1 and 2”; movies, including the 2006 documentary “Going for Broke,” narrated by George Takei, and the 1951 drama “Go for Broke”; and several websites, including the site for the Go for Broke National Education Center in Los Angeles as well as military and veterans’ sites.

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