Pallets

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Pallets

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Background

• Cost
• 38M FY08 (YTD)
• 900,000 plastic Additional 480,000 plastic
  Aug.1 400,000 pressed wood 1.3 M wood slatted
• 40M FY07
• 1.9 million pallets
• National MTESC Inventory on 8/1/08
• 48,000 plastic
• 11,000 pressed wood
• 17,000 wood slatted

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Group Participants

• Industry
• Phil Thompson - Leader
• Erv Drewek
• Don Harley
• Chris Lien
• Joyce McGarvey
• Anita Pursley
• Wendy Smith
• Ernie Rojas
• Kevin Vance
• Phillip Warren
• Mike Winn

• USPS
• Angie Burns - Leader
• Sara Abiusi
• Debbie Cataldi
• Krista Finazzo
• Jim Hardie
• Terry Knupp
• Cindy Mallonee
• Chris Oronzio
• Mary-Anne Penner

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Objectives

• Identify pallet requirements by site (completed)
• Communications awareness
• Minimize leakage report results
• MTE Inventory Control System
• Verification receipt of quantity MTE provided
• On Line status monitoring

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Results of GPS device

• Embedded GPS tracking devices in pallet test
  yields results
• newspaper printing plant and printing warehouse
  used USPS pallets to store supplies for their
  operations
• uncovered 1,500 more postal pallets stored at the
  printers Maryland facility

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Progress Report

• Workgroup meetings - 4
• MTE Inventory Control System
• Overview given 7/1/08
• Requirements for Phase I approved
• On schedule for development early 2009

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Current Status

• Round up
• 1st - 50,000 pallets
• 2nd Ongoing effort
• Alternative pallet types
• Testing of lower cost plastic pallets with
  tracking devices (GPS)
• Pallet approved
• 16 lb. pallet delivery begins August 1
• Supplier will continue to ramp-up production
  capability
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16 lb. nest able pallet
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Next Steps

• Continue development of Inventory Control System
• focus on industry practice of pallet usage not
  related to the induction of mail
• USPS is
• Purchasing 480,000 plastic pallets (8/4 end of
  year)
• meet DMM requirements
• nest able
• lower cost
• lighter weight (16 lb.)