DOD Official Mail CONFERENCE 2004

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DOD Official Mail CONFERENCE 2004
Military Postal Service Agency
Linking Partners Together for a Common Goal
Mr. Tom Kelley Asst. Chief of Operations, MPSA
Website http//hqdainet.army.mil/mpsa/main/htm
Hotline [phone]
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VOTING
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Military Postal Service Agency
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ISSUE
ACTION

• Monitor deployment schedules mail ballots early
• First equipment issued 2002 (ships submarines)
  identify remote units for July 2004 distribution
• Mailing deadlines established by Federal Voting
  Assistance office
• New PDS Scanners/ Transit Time instructions
  (Tests Only)

• Problems linked to shipboard deployments
• Postmarking of ballots
• Timeliness of ballots
• Accurate transit time data

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Military Postal Service Agency(cont.)
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• MPSA guidance/action
• Proper postmarking all units have devices
• Weekly messages on proper handling of ballots
• Weekly and biweekly surveys of all MPOs to ensure
  no ballots are delayed
• Published recommended mailing dates
• Directives
• Require ballots to be postmarked
• Placed in front of letter trays
• Tops of mail bundles
• Unique placards for letter trays

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U.S. Postage Paid 39 USC 3406
PAR AVION
OFFICIAL ABSENTEE BALLOTING MATERIAL
FIRST-CLASS-MAIL
NO POSTAGE NECESSARY IN THE U.S. MAIL-DMM 080
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QUESTIONS ORCOMMENTS