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ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR DELIVERING FACILITIES AT THE US POSTAL SERVICE
ALTERNATIVE METHODS FOR DELIVERING FACILITIES AT THE US POSTAL SERVICE
Pages 84-91
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Runyon understands the facilities business and the importance of our having a state-of-the-art infrastructure in place to create the proper work environment for our employees. His mandate to me when ~ joined the Postal Service in 1994 was to develop a facilities strategy that combined the best attributes of the private sector to ensure consistent building standards, improved delivery systems, and better utilization of our people to put the right facility in the right place at the right price at the right time.
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We have over 800,000 employees, which, ~ have been told, makes us the third largest employer in the world, after the Chinese Army and the Indian National Railroad. My job is to create the building infrastructure that allows our employees to work efficiently in a comfortable and environmentally safe place to best serve the performance objectives of the Postal Service.
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. the partnership involves architects, real estate specialists, environmental specialists, and support staff who become very knowledgeable about the market area, the service providers, and the needs of our customer (Operations)
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The goal is to develop strong project managers who assume ownership and are held accountable for their projects. We need to be moving further toward better serving our customers, the public, and a shared vision for the future of the Postal Service.
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We have begun giving people developmental assignments: taking them out of their positions and assigning them for six months as an acting manager, manager of design and construction, manager of real estate, team leader, or even acting manager of the Facilities Service Office. This strategy allows us to see how people perform.
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The total cost was in the $80,000 range, which may not represent a significant savings in building costs, but reduced our delivery time and overhead costs to manage an onsite building program. We are working with modular manufacturers who can produce four or five units per month and want to identify suppliers across the country to serve a significant percentage of our rural districts.
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It is using land banking, for example, in addition to advanced site acquisition programs. Both offer protection against rising land prices in places such as Las Vegas, where real estate prices are growing 14 percent annually.
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Notwithstanding our success, the Facilities Organization continues to face the challenges of being more competitive and reallocating our resources to meet customers' needs. However, the real challenge for the Postal Service is to hold rates at the same level through the year 2000, without degrading service.
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