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		<title>Postal Service Launches Green Newsroom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from www.usps.com) WASHINGTON — On the eve of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the U.S. Postal Service unveiled its green newsroom, a one-stop shop for all its environmental information. Replete with photos of its energy-saving vehicles and facilities, green products and services, and a time-lapse video of the construction of New York’s largest green roof, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Postal Service to Test Direct-Mail Product Sampling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from www.usps.com) WASHINGTON — Eighty-one percent of consumers will buy a product after they receive a free sample, and most prefer to sample products at home, according to the Opinion Research Corp. This is the idea behind the marketing strategy of a samples co-op box that the U.S. Postal Service plans to market test early [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRC approves USPS&#8217;s Standard Mail Pricing Initiative (Summer Sale)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Postal Regulatory Commission has approved the U.S. Postal Service’s plan to conduct a Standard Mail Pricing Initiative (also known as the “Summer Sale”) this summer. This is a followup to last summer’s inaugural program. Here’s what the program looks like: Incentive period: July 1 to Sept. 30, 2010. Products: All Standard Mail letters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PS Form 8125 — Plant-Verified Drop Shipment (PVDS) Verification and Clearance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 13:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have realigned our business mail acceptance processes to be more consistent throughout our vast network. A significant effort was centered on the correct completion of PS Form 8125, Plant-Verified Drop Shipment (PVDS) Verification and Clearance. PS Form 8125 assures that the contents presented at a destination entry office match what was accepted at an origin entry office. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>April DMM Update</title>
		<link>http://lvpcc.org/2010/04/05/april-dmm-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Postal Explorer (pe.usps.com) is your source for up-to-date mailing standards. The Domestic Mail Manual is fully searchable on Postal Explorer and features fly-out menus, cross-reference links, and an extensive subject index. Today we updated our mailing standards to capture the following changes: New Optional Designs for Letter-Sized Booklets We revised 201.3.0 to provide 10 new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Step Towards Delivering The Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, we took another step in our efforts to move toward five-day delivery by filing a request for an advisory opinion from the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). Our proposal calls for eliminating Saturday delivery, which will result in a net savings of $3.1 billion annually for the Postal Service. We thank our stakeholders for their [...]]]></description>
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