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
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
[applause] senator goldwaters acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National convention to move this weekend on american historys tv reel america. On cspan 3. National Governors Association in nashville, tennessee, a session on helping the nations veterans find employment. Speakers include officials from the labor and Defense Departments. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Losing the battle for talent will lead to diminished homelandair of the nga security and Public Safety committee. I now call this meeting to order. Im honored to serve this year with governor rick snyder. Rick snyder is unable to be with us today. I thank him very much for his work. I want to thank the governor of iowa who is stepping in today as the vice chair, a heartbeat away from the microphone here. Able leader, an will take over and get us to the finish line. I would like to begin with administrative issues. Books were sent ahead of this meeting. The proceedings of this committee are open to the press. Pl
You are providing a powerful example on how states can do with the disconnect. You are helping to show states how to improve the way jobseekers are matched to jobs based on skills and competencies, not just job descriptions and resumes. It is very leading edge. Governor hickenlooper, i would like to recognize colorado for doing a great job with the blueprint that ties together agencies, is mrs. , education, and workforce development. Businesses, education, and workforce development. That will be crucial to attacking the workforce challenges ahead. It is exciting to see the progress being made. Today i want to push you further on the topic of talent and workforce development. I strongly believe this is one of the top three issues each of you as ceos of your state will be forced to adjust in the next three to five years. Address in the next three to five years. I want to talk about how we have dealt with this issue and what we have learned in the process. I want to recognize the states m