Postal Service Board of Governors to Meet Feb. 9

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Jan 27, 2012, 09:53 ET

CFO Briefing Follows Open Session Board Meeting

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service will meet Feb. 9 in open session at Postal Service headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW. The public is welcome to observe the meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. in the Ben Franklin Room on the 11th floor. The Board is expected to discuss the following items:

Approval of minutes of previous meetings
Remarks of the Chairman of the Board
Remarks of the Postmaster General and CEO
2012 committee appointments and committee reports
Quarterly report on financial performance
Quarterly report on service performance
Tentative agenda for March 21 meeting in Washington, DC

Open session meetings of the Board of Governors are available on live audio webcasts at http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/bog/welcome.htm. Three hours after the conclusion of the open session meeting, a recorded audio file will be available for listening. In compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, the audio webcast will be open-captioned.

CFO Briefing

Following the Board's open meeting on Feb. 9, Chief Financial Officer Joe Corbett will host a telephone/web conference call to discuss the financial results in more detail. The call will begin at 1 p.m. ET and is open to the news media and all other interested parties.

To attend by phone with audio only, dial 866-567-8049 (Meeting ID: 8916670).

To attend the web conference and join with audio:

Browse to: http://meetingplace3.usps.gov/join.asp?8916670
After the MeetingPlace window is open, click the Phone icon (under the Participant List or in the upper right-hand corner).
Click Connect Me, validate or update your phone number and click Connect Me again.
When the system calls you press 1 to join.

The briefing will also be available on live audio webcast (listen only) at: http://about.usps.com/news/electronic-press-kits/cfo/welcome.htm

The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations.

A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world's mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service was ranked number one in overall service performance, out of the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world, Oxford Strategic Consulting. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.

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SOURCE U.S. Postal Service