...Information: This United States Postal Service is a current company that I work for. I choose to write about them in particular because of I’ve gain a great deal of experience in a real work place from being at this company. With delivering more than 200 billion pieces of mail per year and connecting to every U.S. home and business. We are said to be integral to our nation and its economy and seek the best leadership available to continue our excellence in operational performance. The Postal Service had a tradition of on time delivery and customer satisfaction, but due to budget cuts there has been a decline. In the station I work out of there are approximately 75 employees and 5 managers. This company has been around for over 200 years with the same Vision, Purpose, and Direction. Current culture: The primary skill expressed based off of the OCI is the need for power. No matter what position you play in the company everyone needs their voice to be heard. In the service and delivery department the two most important powerful ones were of course the Postmasters, who hired, fired and who had control over all the aspects of service and delivery decision making and a say so in some parts of the overall company progress. Then in my department of delivery I have a few supervisors who didn’t really care how the employees felt, it was what upper management wanted no matter if it was right or wrong. Then you have the managers who demand power but really don’t deserve it...
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...more than ever needed with a lagging economy of more than three years. At the same time, consumers are striving to save money, time, and gas as all three of these conditions effect the movie rental industry. This research paper will address a brief history of Netflix, the competitive industry in which they compete, potential breakdowns, and finally an offer of speculation for how to address forecasted future breakdowns in a way that will turn them into positive possibilities. Netflix The vision of Netflix is simplistic: “Our vision is to change the way people access and view the movies that they love.” (Netflix.com, Hastings Reed, 2011). With more than 15 million current members, Netflix is the world’s largest subscription service for the streaming of television and movie picks and sending movies in the mail. New entrants are always a threat to existing companies like Netflix in the industry; however, Netflix continues to innovate at a level which creates a new standard of satisfaction that competitors...
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...The manufacturing company, I used to work for Auth-Florence, located in Manhattan, Kansas is a manufacturing company that makes the United States mailboxes for the postal service and for the residential places. Working for the company was a major change for me since it was my first civilian job. Transitioning into the civilian work force was my first step in ensuring that I prove myself and to the company that I am capable to lead. I was hired as a Machinist Operator for the fabrication department. My responsibilities were very limited since I was just a machinist operator. I would be assigned my task for the day and I would just make the parts on that specific machine. My goal with the company was to learn as much as I can and prove to them that I am a quick learner, have the ability to lead. I was promoted to Team Leader after three months of employment with the company. My responsibilities changed with the promotion. My responsibilities consisted of training employees on the proper procedures on various machines, assigned jobs to the employees, enter end of day activities. Moving up the ladder within the company was not an easy task for me; it was a lot of hard work, overtime, proving that I really want to learn the inside and outside of the company. After a year I was giving the chance to prove myself again and I was placed in charge of the weld cell department. My goal was to make sure that the employees learn from my skills, and motivate them,...
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...11-12 4. Conclusion 13-14 5. References 15 COMPANY BACKGROUND Generally, Pos Malaysia is a post services company in which it was restructured in 1992 as it switches from Malaysian Postal Services Department or Jabatan Perkhidmatan Pos Malaysia into a business corporation. Since there is some change in the structure and system of the company, Pos Malaysia Bhd tends to continues its services as providing mail services, logistics transportation, letter services, postal services, venture into parcel delivery, registrations, insurance service, transaction of money (postal order and money order) and investment of funds (Post Office Saving Bank). (Wikipedia) Basically, one of the services offered by Pos Malaysia is the postal service. It began to take over numerous services on behalf of the Government machineries such as collecting payment of electricity bill, sale of dog license, payment of pensions, sale of television license and others. In early 1800s, Pos Malaysia has traced back with the establishment of postal services which was firstly introduced in the Straits Settlement (Penang, Malacca and Singapore). In early 20th century, it has successfully covered the whole Malaya [ (Pos Malaysia) ] Besides providing...
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...paper will address a brief history of Netflix, the competitive industry in which they compete, potential breakdowns, and finally an offer of speculation for how to address forecasted future breakdowns in a way that will turn them into positive possibilities. The vision of Netflix is simplistic: “Our vision is to change the way people access and view the movies that they love.” (Netflix.com, Hastings Reed, 2011). With more than 15 million current members, Netflix is the world’s largest subscription service for the streaming of television and movie picks and sending movies in the mail. New entrants are always a threat to existing companies like Netflix in the industry; however, Netflix continues to innovate at a level which creates a new standard of satisfaction that competitors and new entrants mimic in order to continue existence in the market – and Netflix must continue in this posture in order to stay ahead of them. Though Netflix is an innovator of the online rental service other major competitors like Blockbuster Video offer competitive monthly pricing and additionally have...
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...certain market sectors (eg. such as airlines, taxis, postal services, utilities, etc.) should be tightly controlled by the government. Finding the right balance between free market and regulation has been a matter of political debate since the dawn of capitalism. However, in tough times such as economic crises, lawmakers tend to opt for the extremities: either taking total control or letting go entirely. In my opinion, moderate control over certain sectors is the path that is most likely to lead to prosperity for both customers and businesses. Any business school student will tell you that the free market always does better than the goverment. And while that is definitely true for profitability, customer satisfaction may not always benefit from the lack of regulation. Taxis are a great example of this. Without some regulation, the locally oligopolistic companies have little to no incentives to improve their services. Just a few years ago, a smoking taxi driver was more common than credit card payment or air conditioning in a cab. The Taxi Act of Budapest (with some, and not total regulation) quickly changed all that. On the other end of the spectrum are government-owned, monopolistic giants, such as the Post. Sluggish service provided by unmotivated employees at a high price make waiting in line at the Post office one of the most dreadful errands. A national corporation in many European countries, the postal sector is crying out for deregulation. Just the...
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...Be Reconstructed Should the United States Postal Service be reconstructed? The answer is yes because people are emailing rather than buying a stamp and envelope to send hand-written documents. The two main issues that I am going to set forth in this prompt are the mail agency facing staggering catastrophe and people emailing to meet their needs. The only way out of this hole is to reconstruct the antiquated United States Postal Service, it’s time for a change. First to begin with let’s start with the mail agency facing staggering catastrophe. Each day people in all corners of the country count on timely delivery of letters, bills, medicine, and election ballots. Now that everyone is starting to email for cheaper cost the postal service has experienced a thirteen percent drop in mail volume this past year. More than double of any previous decline, with a loss of $3.8 billion. Saturday delivery times for letters and packages, higher postage stamp prices that exceed the rate of inflation is a potential for future layoffs and an even bigger drop in mail volume. Taking away Saturday mail would save $40 billion...
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...USPS Deficit: Problems Plaguing America’s Postal Service By Deborah Alicea Lauryn Famiano Enrique Gonzalez Minyi Huang MGT 231 Organizational Behavior Professor Linval Frazer September 2, 2014 Table of Contents Problems of USPS 1 Related Concepts 2 Recommendations 4 1. Innovating Technology System 4 2. Cutting Costs 4 3. Changing Business Model 6 4. Improving communication 7 Conclusion 8 Work Cites 9 Deborah Alicea, Lauryn Famiano, Enrique Gonzalez, Minyi Huang MGT 231 Professor Linval Frazer September 2, 2014 USPS Deficit: Problems Plaguing America’s Postal Service Problems of USPS The first problem is based on technology. In today’s society the technology of smartphones, tablets, and the easy access to social media...
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...Until today, United States Postal Services Inc. is the largest package delivery company in the world in terms of delivery scale. The company delivered more than 10 million packages to millions of destinations in 200 countries. The company has been around exactly a decade in 2007. It was established in Seattle in 1907 by the 19 year old Jim Casey. It was not until 1919 that Jim Casey and his partners Evert McCabe and Charles W. Soderstorm decided to establish the name United States Postal Services because the business has been expanding outside its home city (Friedman, 2006). The company is created with the basic perspective that the best services combined with lowest rates will win the market’s attention. Since the beginning, leaders of the company managed its staff by stressing the value and importance of reliability, low rates, customer courtesy and round the clock services. The business culture remains at the core of UPS activities until today. Today, the company is the one of the most recognized symbols American capitalism with $42.6 billion worth of assets and more than 400,000 employees (Friedman, 2006). I chose to use the United States Postal Service, because I was employed with them for five years. I made a change by leaving the company, but I often regret my decision. The Postal Service was a really good company to work for and diversity was a huge conception, in the area I worked and lived. In reviewing diversity management of a company, it is important to have both...
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...S Postal Service Workers have the greatest impact on the daily life of an average citizen because the delivery of mail is the oil that keeps America running. Without the postal workers, without exception American’s everyday life would be altered greatly. The unofficial motto of the US Postal Service is, “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of the appointed rounds.” In essence, it means nothing will detain the postal service from providing your mail to anyone, since your mail correspondence remains essential. If the US Postal Service did not deliver our mail, or even experienced a delay our correspondence, the consequence for all of us would often become costly financially, health wise, and travel wise. Financial Risks...
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...States Postal Service Yvonne Shaw HRM/531 May 27, 2013 Gabriela Zeigler * Company Background The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent agency of the United States federal government and legally responsible for providing postal service to every American in any location within the United States. The USPS is one of only a few organizations who are authorized by the United States Constitution. The USPS can be dated back to 1775. In 1971 the Postal Reorganization Act made it what it is today. Today the USPS has roughly 570,000 employees, operates roughly 260,000 vehicles, and delivers approximately 660 billion pieces of mail a year (Wikipedia, 2013). In 1971 after a postal strike, the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) was established to help protect worker’s rights and gave them collective bargaining rights, a process of negotiations aimed at reaching agreements to help regulate working conditions. At the postal service this is a three step phase; negotiations, mediations, and interest arbitration. Currently, due to decrease in standard mail delivery, mostly due to ease of the internet, the postal service is facing dire times and being forced to look at alternative ways of doing business without failing to meet their legal obligations. One such option is to close sites. The APWU is currently fighting to stop the closure of postal offices. Due to federal laws, the postal service...
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...Every day more people are moving into the 21st century and using the new technology that is available to them. People are leading busy lives and looking to get more done and if they can find ways to help them make it easier then they will try it. Taking college courses online is a very convenient option people have and more people sign up for the classes every year. An article written by Zephry Teachout Will the Web Kill Colleges? questions the online learning and looks into the future it. “This year may be part of the last generation for which going to college means packing up, getting a dorm room and listening to tenured professors.” Teachout (2009) More of the brick and mortar schools may be affected more than the Ivy League schools because they do not have the funding and image to compete with such schools as Harvard. The small colleges rely on tuition and if more students are attending online classes their enrollment will be down and their funding will not be there. This alone could be very detrimental to them. This would cause many colleges to either close, or join with other universities that are growing quickly in the online community. Another argument that Teachout has is that with the online classes becoming more popular the market will become saturated with classes popping up all over internet. Having to pay tenured professors a particular salary is something they consider when they review the budget. If the online classes continue to grow at the rate they are...
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...both FedEx and Caliber were different as differed in customer bases and service offerings. Caliber was expertise in providing an elaborate logistics operation focusing mainly on high priced goods industries such as moving raw materials, managing work-in-progress, manufacturing of cars and fork-lift trucks etc. Federal Logistics and Electronic Commerce (FLEC) before the acquisition was not able to provide complete supply chain solution because they just focused on finished goods and reverse logistics. But, the acquisition led FLEC to put there hands into areas like warehousing and transportation apart from the basic logistics functions. Later, Caliber became apart of FDX Logistics and FLEC continued as a division under Federal Express. The burden which this acquisition brought along with it to the company was that, the company has to loose its image of just being an express delivery company. The challenge was that all the critics including the customer related the FedEx brand just with transportation. One solution to this challenge was the renaming of the company. In this context, the acquisition gave the name to the holding company as ‘FDX Corporation' but they did very less to promote the name. Therefore, the transportation subsidiary FedEx Express still lived on as a brand image and the corporate name was still under cover. Unlike other companies such as UPS which ran only under one name for all its services, FedEx was...
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...Rationale and Analysis for Agency Selected, Part 1 Dr. Goliday Pad 530: Public Personnel Management July 14, 2013 Introduction The goal of The United States Postal Service is to create “a free flow of information between citizens and their government as a cornerstone of freedom, often spoke of a nation bound together by a system of postal roads and post offices.” (Longley 2013) Postal offices are forbidden to open any letters unless it is undeliverable The United States Postal Service (USPS) is responsible for providing postal services for the United States to all Americans no matter the geographical location. The United States Postal Service is an independent agency of the United States federal government that was formed Washington DC in July 1971. Benjamin Franklin was the first Postmaster General. In 1775 The United States Postal Service started to move the mail. In the 19th century the postal system helped to expand the West by providing a convenient inexpensive form of communication. The cost of stamps ranged from $0.05 to $0.10 depending on the distance the mail was traveling to and from. The post office used steamboats and railroads to deliver mail. On an annual basis the postal system carried roughly 2900 letters and newspapers. The postal services grew rapidly in the 20th Century, taking over air mail services, hiring roughly 40 pilots and delivering over 49 million letters to different places. Now the Post Office delivers over 170 billion pieces of mail each year and...
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...Nov. 16, 2012, 8:01 a.m. EST Stamps.com beats up the U.S. Postal By Barry Randall When Stamps.com /quotes/zigman/92950/quotes/nls/stmp STMP +3.68% announced earnings on Oct. 25, the company didn't just deliver a great performance. It delivered a rebuke to a lot of people who think the company is a left-over dot-com dinosaur. Some of these detractors are short-sellers who have sold short nearly 6% of Stamps.com's outstanding shares. But like another of our holdings in the Crabtree Technology portfolio on Covestor, Shutterfly /quotes/zigman/101900/quotes/nls/sfly SFLY -0.21% , Stamps.com has used this misperception to its advantage. It has carved out a dominant niche in a huge and profitable segment: electronic postage. The bulk (93%) of Stamps.com's business is its core Internet-based PC Postage offering. This enables businesses both large and small to print U.S. Postal Service-approved postage with just a PC, printer and Internet connection. Although similar services are offered by both the USPS itself, as well as competitors like Pitney Bowes /quotes/zigman/238474/quotes/nls/pbi PBI -0.29% , Stamps.com customers seem willing to pay about $21 per month for a better user experience. This might include, for example, its unique ability to natively integrate with Microsoft Word in order to use that program's automated mail merge and envelope printing functionality. We'll discuss Stamps.com's specific quarterly performance in a moment, but right now, let's place the...
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