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Date	Description
October 2008	New USPS Move Update Requirements Helpful Move Update Links
September 2008	Hurricane Ike Hurricane Gustav
June, 2008	Iowa Flooding Wisconsin Flooding
May. 2008	Postal Forum
January, 2008	UPS MI new Southeast Processing Center
October, 2007	Wildfires in Southern California

October 2008
New USPS Move Update Requirements
	Effective Nov. 23, 2008 the United States Postal Service is extending its efforts to improve the percentage of deliverable mail by revising their Move Update standards. The changes include: Extending the revised Move Update requirements to include all Standard Mail (letters, flats, parcels and not flat-machinables) Increasing the minimum frequency of Move Update processing from 185 days to 95 days prior to the date of mailing. The Move Update standards for mailers is to reduce the number of mailpieces that require forwarding or return, requiring the periodic matching of a mailer’s address records with customer filed change-of-address (COA) orders, through one of four pre-approved methods: 1) ACS 2) NCOA 3) Ancillary Endorsements 4) Fast Forward If you have additional questions, we are here to assist. Please contact Mail Innovations customer care staff at 800-500-2224, option 2, or visit us at www.upsmailinnovations.com Back to Top
Helpful Move Update Links:
	Form 6014 http://www.usps.com/forms/_pdf/ps6014.pdf USPS Move Update Guide http://www.usps.com/cpim/ftp/pubs/pub363.pdf Move Update Options http://www.usps.com/ncsc/addressservices/moveupdate/moveupdatemenu.htm Additional Move Update Information http://www.usps.com/mailpro/2008/mayjune/page5.htm Back to Top
September 2008
Hurricane Ike
Service update for Texas and Louisiana Tuesday, Sept. 30, 9 a.m. ET
Texas
Hidden Space	Mail Processing Facilities Houston P&DC, North Houston P&DC, Beaumont P&DC and Bryan P&DF are accepting drop shipments. Stations and Branches Houston Post Offices have reopened, including Oak Forest Station (77018, 77092) In Beaumont, the Main Post Office (77707), South End Station (77701, 77702, and 77705) and Tobe Hahn Station (77703, 77706, 77708, and 77713) are providing limited retail and delivery service, while Lumberton Station (77657) is operating normally. The following offices are closed: Gilchrist (77617), Port Bolivar/Crystal Beach (77650), High Island (77623), Sabine Pass (77655), Port Arthur (77640-43), Bobs Lyons Station (77551) and Wallisville (77597). Note: Customers from Gilchrist, Port Bolivar/Crystal Beach, High Island, Sabine Pass and Wallisville are being served with alternate delivery at the Winnie, TX, and Post Office (77655). Galveston, TX Mail delivery resumes today for business and residential customers in the city of Galveston. Mail collection boxes that are accessible will follow regular mail collection schedules, unless posted as temporarily out of service. The Galveston Main Post Office at 601 Rosenberg (77550) is closed. Post Offices located outside the city encompassing the greater Houston, Beaumont and Galveston areas (ZIP Code areas 773, 774, 775, 776 and 777) have reopened, except where noted above. All Post Offices in ZIP Code areas 779, 783, and 784 have resumed full operations. Back to Top
Louisiana
	Barataria (70036) and Lafitte (70067) Post Offices are operating normally. The following Post Offices in Zip codes 703 - 704 are closed: Montegut Post Office is closed and residents can pick their mail up from the Houma Post Office during regular hours of operations. Dulac Post Office is closed due to flooding. Dulac residents can pick their mail up at the Bourg Post Office. Grand Isle Post Office also remains closed due to accessibility via LA Highway 1. Grand Isle residents can pick up their mail from the Lockport Post Office. All Post Offices in Zip Codes 705 and 706 have resumed operations except for the following: Delcambre Post Office remains closed due to flooding. Residents of Delcambre may pick their mail up at the Abbeville Post Office. Cameron Post Office will remain closed until a temporary facility can be opened. Residents of Cameron, Grand Chenier and Creole can pick their mail up at the Lake Charles Drew Station. Hackberry Post Office remains closed and residents can pick up their mail at the Sulphur Post Office. Note: In areas where delivery is curtailed due to flooding, residents can retrieve their mail at their local Post Office. Back to Top
Ohio
	Columbus The following Post Offices have resumed operations: Linden (43211), Northland (43229), Clintonville (43202) and Hilltop (43204). Cincinnati Cincinnati Airport Mail Facility has resumed operations. Back to Top
Hurricane Custav
Alabama and Mississippi 8:00 PM EDT Sep. 1, 2008
	All Post Offices All Post Offices and postal facilities in Alabama and Mississippi will be open for business Tuesday, Sept. 2. There is minimal impact to the collection and delivery of mail. Service update for Harrison County, MS Harrison County, MS, zones A & B are under mandatory evacuation orders. Facilities located in these zones are the Gulfport P&DF, MS, 39503, Gulfport Downtown Post Office (39503), Biloxi Main Post Office (39530), Biloxi North Bay (39532) and Pass Christian (39571). Precautions are being taken to secure the mail and these buildings. Any mail destined for dropshipment at the Gulfport P&DF, 10285 Corporate Dr, Gulfport, MS, 39503-9998, should be diverted to the Mobile, AL, P&DC, 4538 Shipyard Rd, Mobile, AL, 36675-9998. Back to Top
LOUISIANA 2:00 PM EDT Sep. 1, 2008
	The following mandatory evacuations have curtailed mail delivery until after Hurricane Gustav passes through and weather and road conditions permit resumption of deliveries: Assumption, Calcasieu, Cameron, Iberia, Jefferson, Lafourche, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. John, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, Terrebonne, Vermillion and Washington. Service updates for SCF New Orleans The Southwest Area is taking proactive steps to prepare for Hurricane Gustav making landfall. All customer transported mail bound for SCF New Orleans should be rerouted to Port Allen Processing Center, 1844 Commercial Dr., Port Allen, LA 70767-6105, until further notice Back to Top
TEXAS 2:00 PM EDT Sep. 1, 2008
	Houston In response to the mandatory evacuation order currently in place within Jefferson, Hardin and Orange counties, the Postal Service has suspended all mail collection services and delivery of Express Mail for Monday, Sept. 1 within all 776 and 777 ZIP Codes areas. The Beaumont Processing and Distribution Center and Beaumont Main Post Office at 5815 Walden Road in Beaumont are closed. All Post Office lobbies offering Post Office Box service within the 776 and 777 ZIP Code areas are temporarily closed due to the evacuation order. All other Houston ZIP Code areas (770, 773, 774, 775, 776, 777 and 778) are operating normally at this time. Rio Grande Valley - At the present time no offices are impacted. Service update for SCF Beaumont TX (777-778) All customer transported mail and dropshipments for SCF Beaumont TX should be rerouted to the North Houston P&DC, 4600 Aldine Bender Rd, North Houston, TX 77315-9998, until further notice. Back to Top
June, 2008
Iowa Flooding
Waterloo, IA, and Cedar Rapids, IA
	Waterloo, IA, 50701 The Waterloo, IA, 50701, facility was evacuated at 8 p.m. June 9 due to flooding. All operations at the Main Post Office have been suspended. A temporary facility has been secured at 306 Thorson Avenue in Waterloo. The Waterloo Post Office also has suspended the acceptance of business mail at the office's Business Mail Entry Unit (BMEU) until further notice. Cedar Rapids, IA, 52401 Numerous evacuations have been ordered in the city and Interstate 380 has been closed down through much of the city. All operations at the Cedar Rapids, IA, 52401, facility have been suspended. The office will not be accepting drop shipments. All drop shipments destined for Cedar Rapids 52401 must be redirected to the Quad Cities Processing & Distribution Facility, 7700 68th St, Milan, IL, 61264-9997. The Finance Unit located at 311 3rd Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, 52401, has been evacuated and will have no retail services until further notice. The Main Post Office, West Station and Southeast Station are all without power. Back to Top
Wisconsin Flooding
Fond du Lac, Gays Mills and Viola, WI
	Fond du Lac, WI, 54935 The office will not be accepting drop shipments. All drop shipments destined for Fond du Lac, WI, 54935, must be redirected to the Oshkosh, WI, Post Office at 1025 West 20th Ave, Oshkosh, WI, 54902. Gays Mills, WI, 54631 Due to flooding, all operations, including distribution, rural and PO Box service for the Gays Mills, WI, Post Office have been relocated to the Soldiers Grove, WI, 54655 Post Office on June 9, and will remain there indefinitely. Viola, WI, 54664 Due to flooding, all operations, including distribution, rural and PO Box service for the Viola, WI, Post Office have been relocated to the Readstown, WI, 54652 Post Office on June 9, and will remain there indefinitely. Back to Top
May, 2008
Postal Forum
	UPS Mail Innovations attends the 2008 Postal Forum in Anaheim, California
January, 2008
UPS MI new Southeast Processing Center
	UPS Mail Innovations launches new Southeast Processing Center in Raleigh, North Carolina
October, 2007
Wildfires in Southern California
	Wildfires continue to wreak havoc in southern California, forcing the evacuation and closure of Post Offices throughout the area. As a result, retail service and mail delivery was cancelled or curtailed in a number of locations. This mail is being staged and will be delivered as soon as evacuation orders are rescinded and employees and residents can return. Over the next two days, the Postal Service will consider alternate mail pick-up locations. Back to Top

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