{"id":597,"date":"2009-11-25T16:12:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=597"},"modified":"2009-11-25T16:12:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T21:12:25","slug":"to-reduce-costs-postal-service-focuses-on-internal-management-of-mail-transport-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2009\/11\/25\/to-reduce-costs-postal-service-focuses-on-internal-management-of-mail-transport-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"To reduce costs: Postal Service focuses on internal management of mail transport equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-598\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/COO-PatrickDonahoe.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-598\" title=\"COO-PatrickDonahoe\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/COO-PatrickDonahoe-150x150.gif\" alt=\"USPS COO Patrick Donahoe\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USPS COO Patrick Donahoe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>November 25, 2009<\/p>\n<p>Changes to the internal management of mail transport equipment (MTE) \u2014 an initiative to reduce costs \u2014 is the subject of DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe\u2019s latest Field Updates segment.<\/p>\n<p>According to Donahoe, the Postal Service this fiscal year is changing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for MTE handling and distribution, and reducing from 23 to 15 the number of MTE service centers in its nationwide network.<\/p>\n<p>Donahoe says training videos and new SOPs will be developed to educate employees about this transition to improve the availability, handling and transportation of MTE. Information also will be available on the Network Operations Blue page, along with both a telephone and an e-mail MTE hotline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 25, 2009 Changes to the internal management of mail transport equipment (MTE) \u2014 an initiative to reduce costs \u2014 is the subject of DPMG and COO Pat Donahoe\u2019s latest Field Updates segment. According to Donahoe, the Postal Service this fiscal year is changing standard operating procedures (SOPs) for MTE handling and distribution, and reducing [&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-597","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\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}