To the new communications and transportation capabilities that weve developed. Given the shifting culture and those expectations for speed and ontime delivery, im reluctant. You have to look at the economics of all of this and the trade offs and costs, but i hate to see the Postal Service give up one, two, three. Thank you. Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman two things. One, as i recollect, the rational for this change in Service Standards was developed after i left. I dont know the details of it. I hesitate to answer because without having time to analyze the data. Second, there is a trade off obviously. You cant do all things for all people. You have to make some choices here. Service standards should be an input into the question of plant and logistical rationalization it seems to me. I just dont have i dont have my hands on the information necessary i understand. Everything else equal. I think theres something nice about having as you characterize, a one, two, three kind of standard. You wou
Whos international mep ship is working to improve the security condition worldwide. We start by reviewing some successful bott net take downs in recent years. They may prove instructive as they are successes. In 2008, the conflict worm was discovered. I had competing commercials security companies. Members cooperated with each other to mitigate this global threat. Then in 2011, the u. S. Department of justice led operation ghost click, in which a criminal gang in estonia was arrested, charged with wire fraud and conspiracy. While shutting off the criminal infrastructure the victims depended on. My employer was the courtappointed receiver for the criminals Internet Connectivity and resources. I personally prepared, installed and operated the replacement servers necessary for that takedown. In each of these examples, we seed an ad hoc Public Private partnership in which trust was established and sensety information, including Strategic Planning was shared without any contractual framewor
Second, this is how criminals work with other criminals. We would not get far by trying to solve these fast evolving global problems with topdown control or through government directives and rules. As you yourself pointed out, a botnet is literally a network of robots, whereby robot we mean a computer thats been captured and made to run software neither provided by the maker or authorized or installed by its owner. It has conflict and so forth. The only hard and fast requirement for any of this software is interoperability, meaning it merely has to work. The cost of the internets spectacular growth d. Sorry the cost is much of the software we run was not adequately tested. The challenge for the internet is perhaps theres more assurance that an ul listed toaster will not burn our house, whereas some of our devices are insulated from becoming a tool of online criminals. These are Consumer Devices in a competitive and fastmoving market. Time to market is often the distance between success
The centers changed the standard of delivery and gone from one, two, three, days to modified one so au so if youre in the same met oe metropolitan area. Thats modified one. If were outside the area, you might get it. You may not. Modified one, two, three. I think the Postal Service would like to go to two, three. Two day even in the same metropolitan area. It would be one but two would be the expectation and three. In terms of whats appropriate for us, im not comfortable with the Postal Service saying this is how many Mail Processing centers we should have. Some people say the more appropriate thing for us to do maybe with the involvement of the Regulatory Commission is to consider whether or not modified one, two, three days of service is appropriate. One, two, three is better or two, three is just fine. I would welcome any comments that you all have in it regard. Ms. Kennedy. I picked on mr. Miller all afternoon. Maybe i should come to you. My first thought is if we have declining fi
I want to start by noting that the committee has been particularly supportive as the staff and the oversight investigation subcommittee for their work on this issue and their work with our agency we consider it to be a Real Partnership and we are very grateful for this committees support. We have received a number of referrals from this committee and we appreciate your confidence and ability to work with the employees that your office refers. So thats one thing. Its already happening. We are doing everything that we possibly can. Weve set up a priority system and we free allocated staff to handle the va employee claims. But as the numbers increase its a very hard to keep up. We were at capacity before. In the retaliation cases now it exceeds 130, and the number as i mentioned continues to increase pretty much daily. We are an agency that has 120 employees more or less. We have jurisdiction for the statute for the reemployment rights act and we are working now on a demonstration for the