{"id":4789,"date":"2012-07-19T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T02:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=4789"},"modified":"2012-07-19T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-20T02:46:00","slug":"battle-for-excellence-continues-as-districts-and-areas-swap-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2012\/07\/19\/battle-for-excellence-continues-as-districts-and-areas-swap-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle for Excellence Continues as Districts and Areas Swap Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<strong>Race to the top<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Battle for excellence continues as districts and areas swap rankings<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/district-scores.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-4790\" title=\"district-scores\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/district-scores-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National end-to-end scanning results remained strong during the week ending July 13, with a performance score of almost 94 percent.<\/p>\n<p>At the area level, Southern maintained its first-place spot with a score of 94.7 percent. Capital Metro jumped from fourth to second with a score of 94.4 percent. Great Lakes, Western and Eastern rounded out the top five, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In the nation\u2019s districts, Central Plains climbed from second to first place with a score of 96.8 percent. Arkansas leaped from fifth to second place, posting a score of 96.5 percent. Alabama charged up the rankings from tenth place to fourth with a score of 96 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Standings in the ZIP-3 areas underwent significant changes. Aberdeen, SD (574) continued its hold on first place with a performance rating of 99.4 percent. Salina, KS (669), moved from tenth to second place with a score of 98.5 percent. In third place, Culpeper, VA (227), soared from a rank of 82 in the previous week with a performance rating of 98.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Performance scores and standings change regularly. Readers with EDW eAccess approval can go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/blue\/operations\/welcome.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Operations home page<\/a>\u00a0to view a dashboard with the latest performance scores. Note: the website is available only to readers using postal computers or BlackBerries)<\/p>\n<p>Scanning improvement activities fall under the corporate \u201cProduct Visibility\u201d initiative \u2014 one of more than 30 that make up the Delivering Results, Innovation, Value and Efficiency (DRIVE) program. For more information, go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blue.usps.gov\/blue\/finance\/drive\/\" target=\"_blank\">DRIVE<\/a> website on Blue. (Note: the website is available only to readers using postal computers or BlackBerries).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Race to the top Battle for excellence continues as districts and areas swap rankings National end-to-end scanning results remained strong during the week ending July 13, with a performance score of almost 94 percent. At the area level, Southern maintained its first-place spot with a score of 94.7 percent. Capital Metro jumped from fourth to [&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-4789","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\/4789","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=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}