Greater KCPCC: news

At the recent National PCC Day, the Postal Service recognized outstanding achievements through the Premier PCC Program. The program provides PCCs with a set of national standards that serve as benchmarks of PCC excellence and is intended to give every PCC an opportunity to become the best it can be, regardless of size.

Introducing MailPro
Beginning in January 2007 the Postal Service will replace Memo to Mailers and Mailers Companion
with a new publication titled MailPro. If you currently receive either publication, your name and address
will be placed on the list to receive this publication and duplicate addresses will be removed.

Greater KC PCC honored with Premier Recognition Program Award
Bronze Level Award

Vince Jackson, Lead plant Manager in Mid-America, presents the
Premier Recognition Program Award - Bronze Level Award to the Greater Kansas City
PCC Industry Chairperson Richard Wills of IKON Office solutions and to
Mark Mcdonald, Postmaster of Independence, MO. (Postal Co-Chair).

The Kansas City Postal Customer Council was awarded the 2006 Bronze Level Certification at a
National Broadcast on September 20. The Dallas, Texas based simulcast was to set direction for
nationwide PCC's participation for 2007 and recognize those that had met established criteria for
Bronze, Silver and Gold levels of performance in PCCs nationwide. Local customers viewed the
broadcast at the Kansas City BMC where they also toured the BMC, watched the APPS
(new processing equipment installed at the recent BMC renovation) work and had lunch.

The Bronze Recognition Program indicates that the Greater Kansas City PCC has met Bronze Level
standards for educational efforts, membership criteria and certification standards. According to
Richard Wills, Industry President "This is so exciting for us, this team has worked hard to reach this
level of professionalism and will attain even greater heights as we search for new and better ways to
align customers with the Greater Kansas City Postal customer Council.". (Wills is with IKON Office
Solutions, Inc in Lenexa KS)

PCC Directory of Mail Service Providers
Do you want national exposure for your company for next to nothing? Would you like your company
information listed on a website that gets more than 2.7 Million hits per day? Announcing the launch
of the PCC Directory of Mail Service Providers

What is the Directory of Mail Service Providers?
· It is a portion of www.usps.com that is dedicated to connecting new and existing customers to mail
related services that are provided by PCC members.

Who is in the Initial Launch Group?
· Los Angeles, Providence, Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Portland, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Miami, and
Baltimore PCC’s

There are six categories in which a PCC Mail Service Provider can be listed:
· Mail Preparation
· Mail List Provider
· Mail Printing
· Mailing Support
· Mailing Supplies
· Mailing Equipment

This is a great opportunity to get some highly targeted exposure on a website that has one of the
strongest brand identities in the WORLD, and for only $100 a year! That’s just $8.33 a month!
You can’t afford not to be involved!

Eligibility:
· You must be a participating member of the PCC
· No Postal Service Competitors!
· No non-mail service related businesses
· Directory Member must maintain a dedicated Directory of Mail Service Providers landing page
(see below for specifics).
· Your Postal Co-Chair is responsible for determining if a business provides mailing related services or not.
· Directory members pay a $100.00 annual fee to participate, of which 80-90 percent goes to your local
PCC group treasury to support future educational and outreach programs!

What YOU need to provide if you fit into one of the categories above:
· Name of Business
· Brief description of Mail Service provided (15 words or less)
· Contact Name
· Category in which you would like to be listed
· Web URL (dedicated landing page)

This last item, dedicated web URL is a page that the contact will land on from the USPS site.
It is required to be inclusive of the following:
· Information that states the user has reached a participating member of the PCC Directory of Mail
Service Providers
· Contact information and encouragement toward potentially new PCC members to attend future PCC
meetings and JOIN!
· You should then have a link that will lead the user to your main site.
Email or Call {insert your name here} at {insert your email here} or {insert your phone number here}
to join the PCC Directory of Mail Service Providers.

Greater KCPCC Member of the Year Award
The Greater KCPCC Member of the Year Award was awarded to Christine Shores on
National PCC Day at the Bulk Mail Center, Kansas City, KS.

(Pictured above from left to right): Mark A. McDonald, Greater KCPCC
Postal Co-Chair (and Postmaster, Independence, MO); Christine Shores,
former Greater KCPCC Treasurer (and Business Analyst-Mail Services at
Missouri Gas Energy, KCMO); and Bill Graham, Chairperson of Greater
KCPCC Special Events/Activities Committee (and representative of
Global Postal Service, Lee's Summit, MO).

Basic Addressing
Click here to download a PCC PowerPoint presentation that discusses the basic addressing, automation
letters and designing automation flats.

Leave a Forwarding Address for E-mail
As high school and college students soon leave home for college or graduate from college, many of those
students will be changing their email addresses. In this electronic age, most students aren't writing letters;
they're sending emails.

With Return Path at www.returnpath.net (the official Email Change Of Address, ECOA, service of the
U. S. Postal Service), recent graduates can:
1) Send an ecard and easily notify anyone in their electronic address book of their new email address.
2) Forward email from their old email address to their new one and automatically notify the sender of their
new email address.
3) Set up an automatic response so that anyone who emails the graduate's old email address will receive a
note alerting them to the graduate's new email address.

To date, 15 million consumers have registered for Return Path's ECOA service.

Easy Access to Delivery Status Info Enhances Certified and Registered Mail
(taken from a newsletter titled "Grow! Information & Outreach from Marketing")

Many businesses and organizations have legal needs to confirm and document the delivery of mail.
And retailers and consumers often want increased levels of security when mailing items with a high
dollar or sentimental value. With Certified Mail and Registered Mail, customers have the perfect mailing
solutions to meet these needs.

Last year both products were enhanced with a feature aimed at adding convenience for today's Internet
savvy customers: online verification of the date and time of delivery. Available via the Track and Confirm
section of www.usps.com, this online verification feature provides the quickest way for customers to
obtain delivery status information for Certified mail and Registered Mail and also provides a channel for
the Postal Service to supply the information.

Realizing that some customers don't have Internet access, as of May 20th, delivery date and time
information for Certified Mail and Registered Mail also can be obtained by calling 1-800-222-1811.

Both products make good business sense and add the peace of mind of knowing when an item was delivered.

Per amemorandum from Anita J. Bizzotto (Chief Marketing Officer) &
Kenneth C. Weaver (Chief Postal Inspector), both Postal Service Headquarters
employees in Washington, DC:
The Inspection Service is utilizing the usps.com web site to extensively communicate current information
on all topics dealing with mail center security. Bookmark the web pages and refer to them on a regular
basis to stay informed about the latest developments in mail center security. We are fortunate to have
valuable business communications resources like the PCCs available to us at times like this.