MTAC Workgroup 129 Eliminating Obstacles to Mail Growth February 17-18, 2010

Issue Statement Facilitate mail volume growth by identifying regulations or requirements that add no postal and/or customer value, hence hindering mail growth, and proposing modifications or elimination of those barriers as practical.

Progress  Workgroup formed March 24, 2009  72 workgroup members  21 Bi-weekly conference calls, two face to face meetings  Generated 91 issues list from mailers, focused first on HIGH Impact items, then others  Four task groups formed  16 Recommendations  Posted to MITS and entered into RITS

Currently Being Considered by USPS Functional Area Also submitted in other MTAC Growth workgroups  Secured destruction/recycling process for FCM – Underway by VP, Sustainability  Price incentive for Courtesy Reply Mail, over ounce weight allotment - referred to Manager, Transaction mail

Under Consideration by USPS  Business Reply Mail Design markings  Manager, Transaction Mail  “Saturation CMM”  Manager, Direct Mail  Mailpieces with non-paper surfaces  Manager, Direct Mail  Electronic requests for requester Periodicals publications  Manager, Mailing Standards  Manual affixing of RPNs for destination-entered local mail  Manager, Mailing Standards

Task Groups  Relaxing the requirements for a return address on certain types of mail  Relaxing requirements for decorative designs with Permit Imprints  Attachments to mailpieces (Dry-release cards)  Additional DMM revisions under development  Customer friendly tool for ancillary endorsements  Draft of EXCEL tool, with recommendations for DMM/QSG revisions

Other Recommendations  DMM section for Courtesy Reply Mail  DMM edit suggestions  Linking CSRs to DMM, graphs, charts, illustrations to enhance and add clarity  Return address placement in relation to delivery address  Would require Federal Register Notice and process  Offer a Tyvek envelope as Flat Rate Priority Mail option  Relax requirements for Simplified addresses on city routes  Not a unanimous recommendation from the workgroup – strong opposition voiced

Next Steps  Enter recommendations into RITS  Completed workgroup efforts

Thanks to our workgroup members! NameCompany David AsanoPitney Bowes Frank AuerUSPS Sales/Strategic Service Maynard Benjamin Envelope Manufacturers Association Bob BokorUSPS PCSC Lisa Bowesintilisent Steve BurkatUSPS PCSC Norine ButteNASML Chuck CairattiMcQuiddy Classic John CallanUrsa Major Associates William ChatfieldUSPS Linda ClaytonUSPS Steve ColellaCalmark, Inc. Adam CollinsonPitney Bowes Judy CostelloQuadriga Art Inc Debbie CumboUSPS BMA NameCompany Greg DawsonUSPS Pricing Strategy Vincent DeAngelis Distribution Solutions & Intelligent Mail Pitney Bowes Gene A. Del Polito Association for Postal Commerce Rod DevarUSPS Manager Direct Mail Becky DobbinsUSPS Rich DomagaliaMystic Logistics Krista FinazzoUSPS Operations Paul FinnUSPS Rose FlanaganData Mail Tom Foti USPS Manager Marketing Mail Joy FranckowiakValpak Paul GiampoloValassis Yvonne GiffordUSPS

NameCompany Jay GillottePresort Services Gregory A. Hall USPS Manager PCSC & Workgroup Postal Co-Chair Don Harle Diamond Marketing Solutions Sharon HarrisonAT&T Max Heath Publishing Group of America, Landmark Community Newspapers George HeinrichThe Postal Professor Lisa HenrichOles Envelope Corporation Leanne HermanTimes Printing Company Inc. Michelle Hilston Consolidated Graphics Group Charley HowardHarte-Hanks Keith Judkins National Association of Advertising Distributors Karen KaczmarekMSP Dennis KaylorOur Sunday Visitor Terry KnuppUSPS Sales/Strategic Service Don LandisArandell Jerry LeaseUSPS Mailing Standards NameCompany Elizabeth LombardPitney Bowes Ken MaleUSPS David MastervichUSPS Eddie Mayhew Eddie Mayhew’s Classification Station LLC Dave MeyersPCH Tim McGinleyUSPS Dale MillerRR Donnelley Steve Monteith USPS Mailing & Shipping Services Jennifer NachukAccess Worldwide EC NixDST Mailing Services Dan O’BrienFirst Data Mike O’HoraUSPS BMA Sharon Owens USPS Mailing & Shipping Services Gregory ParsonsPSA Jeff PeoplesWindowBook Debbie Pfeiffer Pitney Bowes Presort Services

NameCompany Anita PursleyWorldcolor Laine RopsonRopson & Associates Kurt RuppelIWCO Direct Cher Rupp-RuggeriUSPS BMA Tonda RushAmerican Press Works Wanda Senne World Marketing, Workgroup Industry Co- Chair John Sexton Pitney Bowes Presort Services Kathleen Siviter Postal Consulting Services, Inc. Jeff StanglePitney Bowes Elizabeth Stewart- Murray USPS PCSC NameCompany Paula Stoskopf BCC Software, A BÖWE BELL + HOWELL Company Randy StumboMeredith Ty TaylorJC Penney Raj ThayalanEpsilon Sue ThomasUSPS Chuck TricamoUSPS PCSC Karen TuckerUSPS Craig VanceUSPS Operations Mike WinnGreylock Associates LLC Carrie WittUSPS

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