{"id":10974,"date":"2015-05-19T07:43:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=10974"},"modified":"2015-05-19T07:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T12:43:05","slug":"usps-using-technology-to-spur-growth-pmg-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2015\/05\/19\/usps-using-technology-to-spur-growth-pmg-says\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS using technology to spur growth, PMG says"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Innovative investments<\/h1>\n<h2>USPS using technology to spur growth, PMG says<\/h2>\n<p><time class=\"pubdate\" datetime=\"2015-05-18T19:51:00.000Z\">USPS News Link &#8211;\u00a05\/18\/15<\/time><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2015\/05may\/images\/news19s1.jpg\" alt=\"PMG NPF speech\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<h6>PMG Megan Brennan speaks at the<br \/>\nNational Postal Forum May 18.<\/h6>\n<p>The Postal Service is making strategic investments in technology, PMG Megan Brennan told mailing industry leaders May 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re especially committed to investing in innovation to spur growth and profitability,\u201d Brennan said at the National Postal Forum, the industry\u2019s largest annual conference.<\/p>\n<p>One example: USPS is developing a daily digital notification service that will allow customers to see what\u2019s arriving in their physical mailbox, the PMG said.<\/p>\n<p>The project, known as real mail notification, is being tested in Northern Virginia and will expand to New York City this year. Initial results are encouraging: Ninety percent of participants use the service daily to check what\u2019s arriving in their mail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re building this platform to bring physical content onto the same screen as the user\u2019s digital content. The potential is enormous for this industry,\u201d Brennan said.<\/p>\n<p>The PMG also discussed opportunities for the industry to leverage the rapid adoption of digital and mobile technology by consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur industry has a big role to play in that digital future,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><em><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/national-releases\/2015\/NPF-PMG-NPF-Keynote-5-18-15.pdf\">transcript<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>of the PMG\u2019s speech is available online. A video will be posted when it\u2019s available on the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/about.usps.com\/news\/\">Newsroom<\/a><\/em><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovative investments USPS using technology to spur growth, PMG says USPS News Link &#8211;\u00a05\/18\/15 PMG Megan Brennan speaks at the National Postal Forum May 18. The Postal Service is making strategic investments in technology, PMG Megan Brennan told mailing industry leaders May 18. \u201cWe\u2019re especially committed to investing in innovation to spur growth and profitability,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974","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=10974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10976,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10974\/revisions\/10976"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}