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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 3, 2008

Media Contact: David Partenheimer
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Release No. 08-115

Board of Governors to Meet Nov. 12-13, 2008 in Washington, DC

WASHINGTON, DC —The Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service will meet in Washington, DC, at Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L’Enfant Plaza, SW, on Nov. 12-13, 2008. The public is welcome to observe the Board’s open session, scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. on Nov. 13 in the Ben Franklin Room on the 11th floor. The Board is expected to discuss the following items:

Thursday, Nov. 13 at 8:30 a.m.

  1. Minutes of the previous meetings, Sept. 23-24, and Oct. 20-21, 2008.
  2. Remarks of the Chairman of the Board (Alan Kessler).
  3. Remarks of the Postmaster General and CEO (John Potter).
  4. Committee reports.
  5. Quarterly report on service performance (Delores Killette, Consumer Advocate and Vice President).
  6. Consideration of Fiscal Year 2008 audited financial statements and Postal Service Annual Report (Governor Katherine Tobin, H. Glen Walker, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, and Chairman Kessler).
  7. Tentative agenda for the Dec. 2-3, 2008, meeting in Washington, DC.

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An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the nation, 146 million homes and businesses, six days a week. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products, and services to pay for operating expenses, not tax dollars. The Postal Service has annual revenues of $75 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail.