{"id":28396,"date":"2020-03-23T11:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=28396"},"modified":"2020-03-23T11:13:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T16:13:43","slug":"covid-19-command-new-group-to-lead-usps-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2020\/03\/23\/covid-19-command-new-group-to-lead-usps-response\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 command &#8211; New group to lead USPS response"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-thumbnail\">\n<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-28397\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Kristin-Seaver.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Kristin-Seaver.jpg 331w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Kristin-Seaver-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/h6>\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\"><em>Kristin Seaver has stepped away from her regular duties as chief information officer to serve as the COVID-19 Response Command incident commander.<\/em><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 3\/23\/20 &#8211; Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan has established COVID-19 Response Command, a group within the Postal Service that will help ensure the organization takes a comprehensive approach to its response to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The group is led by Kristin Seaver, who has stepped away from her regular duties as chief information officer to serve as incident commander.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 Response Command covers four key areas, each led by a USPS officer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Employee response:<\/strong>\u00a0Simon Storey, employee resource management vice president<\/li>\n<li><strong>Operational continuity:<\/strong>\u00a0Joshua Colin, acting processing and maintenance operations vice president<\/li>\n<li><strong>Business continuity:<\/strong>\u00a0Mark Guilfoil, supply management vice president<\/li>\n<li><strong>Customer continuity:\u00a0<\/strong>Steve Monteith, marketing vice president<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Janice Walker, corporate communications vice president, coordinates all communications related to COVID-19 Response Command, while David Ellis, managing counsel, coordinates all legal concerns on behalf of the general counsel\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>While COVID-19 Response Command is active, other executives and managers will handle the duties of the officers involved with the group.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Bombaugh, engineering systems vice president, will serve as acting chief information officer; Jeffrey Becker, international operations executive director; will serve as acting processing and maintenance operations vice president; Linda DeCarlo, safety manager, will serve as acting employee resource management vice president; and Karen Pompanella, commercial products and services manager, will serve as acting supply management vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristin Seaver has stepped away from her regular duties as chief information officer to serve as the COVID-19 Response Command incident commander. USPS News Link &#8211; 3\/23\/20 &#8211; Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan has established COVID-19 Response Command, a group within the Postal Service that will help ensure the organization takes a comprehensive approach to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396","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=28396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28398,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28396\/revisions\/28398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}