Benjamin Franklin began the history of our Postal Service today. This opened up a lot of jobs and still help us now. Why take something that has built our whole world‚ away? Keeping the Postal Service around is a good idea because we can’t always rely on the other forms of mailing systems. UPS‚ Fedex‚ect they are not reliable systems like our postal service‚ one reason because those particular mailing systems mail out packages not letters when our postal service does that too. So in all actuality we should
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March 2012 Religious Culture of the United States According to recent surveys‚ an estimated 83 percent of adult Americans identify with a religious denomination‚ 40 percent admit to attending a religious service once or more each week‚ and 58 percent claim to pray at least weekly (Putnam Ch. 1‚ p. 5). Furthermore‚ a 2008 “American Religious Identification Survey” identified that there currently exist a total of 313 different religious sects and denominations in the United States (Kosmin 3). These statistical
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MN 4125 Management of Change Final Project: United States Postal Service Case Study Steve Mays Frank Sierra Joshua Kapp PART I History and Background Introduction The United States Postal Service (USPS) is an independent government organization that generates income through mail services. It is currently the second largest civilian employer in the United States. Its primary task is to deliver mail around the country‚ at a standard price‚ regardless of geographic location. Over the last
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Political Culture of the United States American National Character and Daniel Elazar’s Regions Political culture refers to what people believe and feel about government‚ and how they think people should act towards it. To understand the relationship of a government to its people‚ and how those people are going to act toward that government and others‚ it is necessary to study what those people believe about themselves and government. Daniel Elazar‚ from whom much of the information below has
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played by the same person; but in all likelihood‚ they are portrayed by two totally different individuals; especially if within a large organization such as the United States Postal Service (Postal Service). The Postal Service™ delivers hundreds of millions of messages each day to more than 141 million homes and businesses. The Postal Service has been operating for over two centuries and to give a prospective of how long that is; Benjamin Franklin was its first leader as postmaster general. The district
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own ethnic culture. The concept of ethnocentrism has proven significant in the social sciences‚ both with respect to the issue of whether the ethnocentric bias of researchers colors the data they obtain‚ and the findings from research in anthropology and sociology. Such research has revealed ethnocentrism in every culture around the world‚ based on a number reasons‚ including religion‚ language‚ customs‚ culture‚ and shared history. It seems natural that people feel pride in the culture in which they
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The USPS Problem The USPS Problem It has come as no surprise that the United States Postal Service lost money in the first two quarters of 2010. $8.5 billion to be exact. Next year they‚ plan to lose even more. Somewhere in between $9 billion to $10 billion dollars. The problem will not be as simple to fix‚ but it is a problem that can be resolved with a few simple implementations and cost cutting options. Overspending and undercharging has led to needing to cut cost and raise prices. The USPS
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The United States Postal Service is to create “a free flow of information between citizens and their governemnt 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 undelieverbale. The United States Postal Service (USPS) is resposible for providing postal services for the United States to all Americans no matter the geographical location. The United States Postal
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crisis is inherently a reactive situation and thus often filled with uncertainties and unknowns‚ proper planning can provide a more proactive response that leads to the successful handling of the crisis. Newsom‚ Turk and Kruckenberg (2010‚ p. 341) state the following outcomes as necessary for successful handling of a crisis: 1) early detection‚ 2) incident containment‚ 3) business resumption‚ 4) lessons learned and policies updated‚ 5) improved reputation as a result of appropriate response‚ 6) stakeholders
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to more of what the world has to offer; more products and services‚ more information and ideas‚ more people and places. Today a number of companies‚ FedEx Express‚ FedEx Ground‚ FedEx Freight‚ FedEx Kinko’s Office and Print Services‚ FedEx Custom Critical‚ FedEx Trade Networks and FedEx Services‚ compete collectively under the FedEx umbrella. FedEx offers a vast array of transportation‚ e-commerce‚ business and related information services. For FedEx to stay up to date‚ it is important to feed the
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