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What is the purpose of the Military Postal Service (MPS)?
Provides postal service to the DOD components in support of DOD missions.
What is Periodical mail?
This class consists of newspapers, magazines, journals, digests, briefs, bulletins, summaries, and periodical publications issued regularly and on a recurring basis.
What is the military post office?
is a branch of a designated USPS civilian post office, which falls under the jurisdiction of the postmaster of either New York or San Francisco. It is operated by the DOD to serve military personnel overseas or aboard ships where the USPS does not operate and where a military situation requires the service.
What is the purpose of the mail control activity or agent?
Performs duties at commercial and/or military airports.
What is the purpose of JMPAs?
Provide information to the USPS and postal activities to allow proper distribution, dispatch, and transportation of military mail.
What is MPSA responsibilities?
Rsponsibilities include recommending policy, monitoring all overseas mail transportation costs, and making recommendations to ADUSD AT&L as required, to ensure the proper administration of the MPS
What is the postal service center?
is where incoming mail trucks and shipping containers are unloaded and personal mail is separated from official correspondence.
What do you do when there is incoming mail?
Verify, Inspect, and process
What is Express Mail?
A mail class that provides expedited USPS delivery service for mailable matter (up to 70 pounds)
What are official mail managers responsible for?
They are responsible for interpreting and carrying out Private Express Statutes within their organization; the acquisition, use, or disposition of supplies and property; and the budgeting of expenditures for appropriated funds for postage and fees.
The highest level of classification you will deal with in most cases will be?
Secret (Mail classified as Secret must be mailed as Registered mail.) expected to cause serious damage to national security.
What do you do when there is outgoing mail?
Prepare, inspect, process
What is Registered mail?
It is the most secure service the USPS offers. It incorporates a system of receipts to monitor mail movement from the point of acceptance to delivery.
What do you do when there are damaged articles in closed bags?
endorse them "Received in damaged condition." Include the date of receipt and identify the unit repairing the article in the endorsement.
If you are suspicious of a mailing and you are unable to verify the contents with the addressee or sender, you should protect yourself, your office, and your mailroom. To identify a suspicious letter or package, look for any peculiarities including the following items:
Return address.
• Restrictive markings.
• Sealed with tape.
• Misspelled words or badly typed or written.
• Unknown powder or suspicious substance.
• Possibly mailed from a foreign country or excessive postage?
• Oily stains, discolorations, crystallization or wrapper.
• Strange odor.
• Incorrect title or addressed to title only.
• Rigid or bulky.
• Lopsided or uneven.
• Protruding wires
What do you do when you see a suspicious letter or package?
• Isolate the article and evacuate the immediate area.
• Do not put the article in water or a confined space such as a desk drawer or a filing cabinet.
• If possible, open windows in the immediate area to assist in venting potentially explosive gases. If a situation turns out to be a fake bomb scare, postal personnel will not be held liable for the package.
• Do not take any chances or worry about possible embarrassment if the item turns out to be innocent. If there is any reason to believe a letter or parcel is dangerous, contact the local military law enforcement officials for assistance.
• Post the USPS Poster 84, Suspicious Mail or Package, in the work area.