{"id":9240,"date":"2014-12-01T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=9240"},"modified":"2014-12-01T17:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T22:26:15","slug":"new-service-helps-businesses-avoid-undeliverable-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/12\/01\/new-service-helps-businesses-avoid-undeliverable-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"New service helps businesses avoid undeliverable mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Capture and destroy<\/h1>\n<h2>New service helps businesses avoid undeliverable mail<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/news\/link\/2014\/12dec\/images\/news02s2.jpg\" alt=\"USPS Blue Earth\" width=\"220\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>USPS &#8211; 12.01.14 &#8211; USPS recently introduced a service to help reduce the more than 1.4 billion pieces of undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) mail returned each year.<\/p>\n<p>Secure Destruction, a USPS Blue Earth sustainability initiative, allows mailers to have letter-sized return-to-sender First-Class Mail captured and securely destroyed at postal facilities for no additional charge.<\/p>\n<p>Using the Intelligent Mail barcode, mail that must be destroyed for privacy reasons can be securely shredded and recycled at a USPS mail processing plant, rather than being shipped back to the sender.<\/p>\n<p>The program benefits both USPS and mailers, Chief Sustainability Officer Tom Day said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Postal Service is able to reduce its operating costs and carbon emissions associated with returning this mail, and mailers are able to reduce the in-house costs of handling and destroying return to sender mail,\u201d Day said.<\/p>\n<p>The program ensures the security of the destroyed mail by following industry standards for confidential information.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, mailers benefit from increased reporting capabilities. Specific data for all of the mail processed for destruction is entered in the mailer\u2019s database daily to provide updated information for future mailings.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the process, visit the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ribbs.usps.gov\/index.cfm?page=securedestruction\" target=\"_blank\">program website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capture and destroy New service helps businesses avoid undeliverable mail USPS &#8211; 12.01.14 &#8211; USPS recently introduced a service to help reduce the more than 1.4 billion pieces of undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) mail returned each year. Secure Destruction, a USPS Blue Earth sustainability initiative, allows mailers to have letter-sized return-to-sender First-Class Mail captured and securely destroyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9240","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\/9240","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=9240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9242,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9240\/revisions\/9242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}