UPS’s ESKEW BACKS ?FOCUSED? U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

UPSÆS ESKEW BACKS ôFOCUSEDö U.S. POSTAL SERVICE    United Parcel Service Chairman Mike Eskew said the express giant supports a U.S. Postal Service 'focused on its core letter mail mission,' of delivering 'letters, advertising and periodicals.'
   However, where USPS 'competes in the private sector, it must be on a level playing field with proper accounting, transparency, full disclosure and oversight, said Eskew in testimony Thursday in Washington before the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service.
   The commission's goal is to recommend legislative or administrative actions to maintain the nation's postal service. It is scheduled to submit a report to the president by July 31.
   Eskew noted that UPS is a healthy user of the USPS, and through its mail-related subsidiaries including Mail Boxes Etc., the company pays more than $220 million to the postal service each year, while 'benefiting from package volume generated by catalogs and advertising distributed through the mail.'