Blue and Brown Make Green Public-Private Partnership Helps
Customers, Environment, Bottom Line
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WASHINGTON ,
Dec. 6, 2012
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a video address to a global
audience, U.S. Postal Service Postmaster General and Chief
Executive Officer Patrick Donahoe,
and UPS Chairman and CEO Scott Davis
announced a unique partnership designed to offer better service to
customers, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and optimize operational
efficiencies.
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"We've named our partnership 'Blue and Brown Make Green,'"
said Donahoe. "By working together, the Postal Service and UPS are
able to reduce costs, serve our customers better and achieve
sustainability goals, such as reducing our carbon
footprints."
"It certainly describes what the Postal Service and UPS
have been working on together," said Davis. "The world is changing
dramatically as we become a more global economy. And, it takes big
ideas and bold moves to keep up. This collaboration to reduce the
carbon footprint of our respective supply chains is the
sustainability wave of the future," Davis added.
The Postal Service is the world's largest mail service,
delivering nearly 40 percent of the world's mail to more than 151
million addresses in America. UPS is the world's largest package
delivery company, and is one of the leading global providers of
specialized transportation and logistics services. In 2011, UPS
delivered more than four billion packages and documents to more
than 220 countries and territories.
In the USPS/UPS partnership video Donahoe and Davis
discuss their efforts to improve service to their customers, reduce
costs and improve the environment. While USPS and UPS are keen
competitors, they also are each other's customers.
USPS delivers many of UPS's packages through its "last
mile" network which is leveraged to provide services including
Parcel Select* and Parcel Return, the latter, a convenient service
for UPS customers to drop returnable merchandise at Post Offices
for UPS retrieval and return to retailers. Last year, UPS carried
millions of pounds of USPS letter and package mail across the
country and around the world on its extensive air and ground
transportation networks.
"Our working relationship with UPS supports the Postal
Service's goal to deliver mail at the lowest cost with minimal
impact on the environment," added Donahoe. "It's a great template
for how posts and private enterprises can work together to better
serve customers, the planet and the bottom line. We hope our
partnership can serve as a model for others to work together in new
ways, whether they are competitors, collaborators, customers or all
the above."
Donahoe and Davis concurred that by seeking opportunities
to be cost effective and create a cleaner, more sustainable
environment together, USPS and UPS can deliver a better and greener
future for generations to come.
The Postal Service participates in the International
Post Corporation's Environmental Measurement and Monitoring
System (EMMS), the global postal industry's program to
reduce its carbon footprint 20 percent by 2020 compared to 2008.
UPS is providing sustainability data to USPS for that program. The
USPS/UPS partnership video and EMMS report also can be found
at
http://sustainability.ipc.be/en/best-practice-cases/USPS.aspx.
About USPS
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, Oxford Strategic
Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall
service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations
in the world. 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.
The Postal Service has won numerous environmental honors,
including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
WasteWise Partner of the Year award in 2010 and 2011, the EPA's
National Partnership for Environmental Priorities award in 2011,
The Climate Registry Gold award in 2011 and the 2012 GreenGov
Presidential Award. For more information about going green with
USPS, visit usps.com/green.
Follow the Postal Service on twitter.com/USPS and
at facebook.com/USPS.
For broadcast quality video
and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS
Newsroom at about.usps.com/news/welcome.htm.
About UPS
UPS was awarded the top
score of 99 on the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index by the Carbon
Disclosure Project. UPS also earned the number two ranking in the
world for environmental leadership by Climate Counts. Corporate
Responsibility magazine rated UPS number seven out of the 40
"Best of the Best" federal contractors, number one on climate
change and number seven on the environment.
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering
a broad range of solutions including the transportation of packages
and freight; the facilitation of international trade, and the
deployment of advanced technology to more efficiently manage the
world of business. Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more than 220 countries
and territories worldwide. The company can be found on the Web at
UPS.com and its corporate blog can be found at
blog.ups.com. To get UPS news direct, visit
pressroom.ups.com/RSS.
About International Post
Corporation
International Post Corporation is a
cooperative association of 24 member postal operators in
Asia Pacific, Europe and North
America. Over the past two decades IPC has provided industry
leadership by driving service quality and interoperability,
supporting its members to ensure the high performance of
international mail services and developing the IT infrastructure
required to achieve this. IPC engages in industry research, creates
business-critical intelligence, provides a range of platforms for
member post CEOs and senior management to exchange best practices
and discuss strategy, and gives its members an authoritative,
independent and collective voice. IPC also manages the system for
incentive-based payments between postal operators. With members
delivering some 80 percent of global postal mail, IPC represents
the majority of the world's mail volume. For more information
please visit our website.
*Parcel Select service provides commercial
customers with an economical means of shipping packages. By taking
advantage of the "first mile and last mile" strengths of the Postal
Service, Parcel Select saves customers money by entering packages
into the postal network closer to their ultimate destination.
Parcel Return Service provides a service to commercial customers
allowing them to easily and economically retrieve packages returned
by their customers. Parcel Select and Parcel Return Services allow
USPS to partner with privately owned delivery services to serve our
respective customers' needs.
SOURCE U.S. Postal Service