{"id":1048,"date":"2010-06-14T07:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2010-06-14T07:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T12:51:46","slug":"usps-board-of-governors-chairman-stresses-need-for-flexibility-and-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/06\/14\/usps-board-of-governors-chairman-stresses-need-for-flexibility-and-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Board of Governors Chairman Stresses Need for Flexibility and Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ENSURING A VIABLE FUTURE<br \/>\nBOARD CHAIRMAN STRESSES NEED FOR FLEXIBILITY, SPEED<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>USPS Board of Governors Chairman Louis Giuliano last week discussed the Postal Service\u2019s 10-year action plan with major business mailers from across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpeaking for the Board of Governors, I fully support management\u2019s plan in its entirety,\u201d said Giuliano. \u201cIt\u2019s a balanced, comprehensive approach which includes many solutions rather than just one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giuliano said for the Postal Service to remain a viable organization in 2020 and beyond, it must become a flexible, agile agency able to respond to change. To that end, Giuliano said all of the plan\u2019s components are necessary, including Congressional action to restructure the retiree health benefits prefunding mandate to a pay-as-you-go system and a change to five day delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are going to self-fund like a business, we need to make decisions and take actions like a business, while maintaining our universal service obligation,\u201d said Giuliano. \u201cThat is what management\u2019s plan addresses, in all of its components \u2014 each of which is vital to our postal future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giuliano made his remarks at a meeting of the Association of Postal Commerce in Washington, DC. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/communications\/newsroom\/speeches\/2010\/pr10_lg_0609.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to read the speech. For more information about the Ensuring a Viable Postal Service for America action plan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usps.com\/communications\/newsroom\/deliveringfuture\/welcome.htm\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENSURING A VIABLE FUTURE BOARD CHAIRMAN STRESSES NEED FOR FLEXIBILITY, SPEED USPS Board of Governors Chairman Louis Giuliano last week discussed the Postal Service\u2019s 10-year action plan with major business mailers from across the country. \u201cSpeaking for the Board of Governors, I fully support management\u2019s plan in its entirety,\u201d said Giuliano. \u201cIt\u2019s a balanced, comprehensive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}