On Thursday, May 18, nine employees from the home office attended a Cincinnati Postal Customer Council meeting, which included a tour of the Cincinnati Bulk Mail Center. The purpose of the tour was to help postal customers better understand why sortation and barcoding help keep the cost of postage down.

The Cincinnati Bulk Mail Center is a huge facility, covering 55 acres. It has 166 dock spaces and over 33 miles of conveyors in the 543,150-square foot building. Cincinnati is sixth in volume of mail processed in the 21 bulk mail centers in the United States.

Home office staff members who attended were Richard Kennebeck and Paul Wasilkoff from the Information Technology Department, and Connie Seelig, Doris Phelps, Emma Kennebeck, Carole Gholson, Janet Treadway, Lina Reid and Larry Perkins from the Mail Processing Department. The tour helped the staff understand the processes the U.S. Postal Service requires in order to receive reduced postage rates.