{"id":1747,"date":"2010-12-06T12:46:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=1747"},"modified":"2010-12-06T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:47:46","slug":"open-letter-from-pmg-pat-donahoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/12\/06\/open-letter-from-pmg-pat-donahoe\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEN LETTER FROM PMG PAT DONAHOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PatDonahoe2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1748\" title=\"PatDonahoe\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PatDonahoe2-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>December 06, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>OPEN LETTER FROM PMG PAT DONAHOE<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>CORE BUSINESS STRATEGIES DEFINED<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In an open letter to all employees on his first official day in office, PMG Pat Donahoe defines core business strategies that will guide the organization to become \u201ca profitable, nimble Postal Service that competes for customers and has a well-defined and valued role in an increasingly digital world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donahoe says the strategies will drive significant change in the organization in the coming days, weeks and months. \u201cWe are not going to stray from our core business function \u2014 mail and package delivery \u2014 but we are going to revitalize the way we approach the marketplace,\u201d he states in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>The core strategies, which will be more fully detailed as specific initiatives are announced, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Strengthening the business to consumer channel<\/li>\n<li>Improving the customer experience<\/li>\n<li>Competing for package business; and<\/li>\n<li>Becoming a leaner, faster and smarter organization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be more than an available, low-cost delivery resource,\u201d Donahoe explains. \u201cWe have to win customers and find ways of complementing and adding value to the evolving nature of the way people communicate and conduct business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanking employees for \u201cthe great job you do every day,\u201d Donahoe says he is \u201cincredibly honored and humbled\u201d to be the 73rd PMG and that he will maintain his commitment to frequent, open communications throughout the Postal Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at the beginning of a new chapter in the history of our organization, and we will all help write it,\u201d says Donahoe. \u201cYour good ideas, your engagement, and relentless dedication ensure we will make great strides as we create tomorrow\u2019s Postal Service together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2010\/PMG_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the PMG\u2019s full letter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 06, 2010 OPEN LETTER FROM PMG PAT DONAHOE CORE BUSINESS STRATEGIES DEFINED In an open letter to all employees on his first official day in office, PMG Pat Donahoe defines core business strategies that will guide the organization to become \u201ca profitable, nimble Postal Service that competes for customers and has a well-defined and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747","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=1747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1747\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}