® 1 Network Rationalization APWU Article 12.4.B Meeting February 13, 2012

2 Volume Price Labor Costs Universal Service Obligation  Capped by inflation  Price elasticities are in flux due to growing alternatives Postal network driven by:  Delivery points  Retail locations  Sortation facilities  Six-day delivery  ~80% of total costs  COLA increases  Benefits: pensions, retiree health, health insurance  Limited flexibility  Retiree prefunding obligation, rising workman's compensation costs These trends will continue to put pressure on USPS’s ability to provide affordable universal service Decliningsteadily  Transactional volume declining due to e-diversion  Advertising mail is subject to more substitution options  Mail volume highly sensitive to economic changes  Mail mix changes – lost profit contributions Fixed Cost Base Rising but capped capped Rising Cost per hour Situation Assessment: Mail

3 Mail Volume Shifting to Less Profitable Mix Volume in Billions of Pieces

4 Realigning Our Network Reducing annual operating costs by $2.6 billion

5 Mail Processing Facility Footprint 461 Facilities Today Current Mail Processing Sites

6 Mail Processing Facility Footprint Potential Network

7 Our Employees 559, ,000 35,000 Total Career Employees Total Mail Processing Employees Fewer Mail Processing Positions

8 Deactivation Site Complement - APWU Potentially Impacted Employees

9  Service Standards for: -Priority Mail -Express Mail -Standard Mail -Packages  BMEU locations, in the near term What is not Changing?

10 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day Today’s Delivery Distribution 1 Day First-Class Mail Standards *Dependent upon market adaptation 2 Day 3 Day Likely Future Distribution* What is Changing?

11 24:00 06:00 12:00 18:00 04:00 08:00 OutgoingOperations (5:00PM – 12:30 AM) ContinuousDPS/SecondaryOperations(12:00PM-0400AM) IncomingPrimaryOperations( ) BMEU (8:00AM –7:00PM) 11 Proposed 24-Hour Plant Operations

12 Hub ProcessingPlant For Illustrative Purposes Only 12 Hub Hub Hub Hub Proposed Area Hubs

13 Service Standard Change -Final RuleMid-April -ImplementationAfter May 15 Network Realignment -AMP DecisionsEnd of February -Overall Realignment begins after May 15 -No major changes during Fall mailing/peak season Timeline

14 Our Commitment  Robust site-specific project plans  Deliberate timing of operational moves  Critical activities include: -Employee moves -Equipment moves -Transportation contracts -Facility modifications  Ongoing communications Planning for Implementation

15  Maintain the long-term affordability of mail and high level of service  Network changes imperceptible to 150 million residential customers and seamless for business customers  Create giant efficiency improvements throughout our network Concluding Thoughts