NEW AWARD PROGRAM. Chief Operating Officer Pat Donahoe and Chief Marketing Officer Anita Bizzotto have committed themselves to recognizing postmasters, managers and supervisors who contribute the most toward growing USPS business. That recognition will be Marketing's highest honor - the CMO's Growth Award. The award measures the abilities of employees in three major categories: revenue generation, marketing initiatives and marketing outreach.

In the coming weeks and months, the USPS Marketing department will be introducing a number of new programs aimed at generating revenue, promoting products and services, and keeping customers informed about USPS. Postmasters and other field supervisors are the Postal Service's link to the household market segment and the preferred market segment - 20 million small businesses nationwide. The efforts of postmasters, managers and supervisors are vital to success, and the new award program is designed to recognize outstanding results. Additional details about the program are in the Oct. 17 Postal Bulletin, which can be accessed through www.usps.com.

STAMP SHOW. One of the nation's largest annual stamp shows - the Fall Postage Stamp Mega Event - begins Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City. It continues through Sunday, Oct. 27. The USPS Hawaiian Missionaries souvenir sheet will be issued on opening day at a noontime ceremony. The souvenir sheet includes four 37-cent commemorative stamps reproducing the classic stamps of Hawaii known as the Missionaries, so called because they were used primarily by Christian missionaries on the islands in the early 1850s.

On Friday, Oct. 25, USPS will re-issue the single Happy Birthday and 50 Greetings from America stamps as 37-cent special issues. They were released earlier this year at the 34-cent rate. While the stamps will be re-issued in conjunction with the stamp show in New York City, no official ceremonies are planned. The Fall 2002 Postage Stamp Mega Event is sponsored by USPS, the American Stamp Dealers Association and the American Philatelic Society.

NONPROFIT MAILERS. USPS is issuing a new coil stamp for use by nonprofit mailers. It features a Seacoast scene, and is nondenominated, bearing the inscription "Nonprofit Org." The price per stamp is 5 cents. The stamp is being issued today in Washington, DC, and will be available nationwide tomorrow. There is no first-day ceremony.

The new coil is designed to supplement the inventory of Wetlands nonprofit coils already in circulation. The Seacoast design will be available initially only in large self-adhesive rolls of 10,000 stamps.