Holiday Packages - Military Mailing Tips

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Delores Killette
Vice President and Consumer Advocate, U.S. Postal Service
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(202) 268-7236

Delores J. Killette was named Consumer Advocate and vice president of Consumer Affairs in November 2005. In this role, she is responsible for representing the interests of the individual postal customer in all postal decision-making processes. She reports to the senior vice president of Customer Relations.

Killette’s organization analyzes all Postal Service performance systems and develops and manages external, independent measures of service performance and customer satisfaction. The Consumer Advocate also directs the Corporate Contact Center Program, a network of customer-facing call centers; the Corporate Privacy Program; and the Mail Recovery Centers. She also oversees a Field Support function providing information, guidance and training for district consumer affairs managers to assist in their customer relations responsibilities.

Killette, a 37-year Postal Service employee, served as the 39th postmaster of Washington, D.C. since 1999 — the city’s first postmaster of the 21st century. In this role, she led her service team to new heights in service performance and customer satisfaction. She was responsible for approximately 2,300 employees in 62 postal units, serving residents, businesses and local and federal government agencies throughout Washington D.C. Killette was an ardent member of the Washington Metro Postal Customer Council and co-chair of a very active Customer Advisory Committee. Additionally, she was instrumental in the restoration of the Government Mailers Advisory Council where she also served as postal co-chair for several years.

Earlier, Killette served as manager, operations programs support in the Baltimore district. She began her Postal Service career in 1968 as a distribution clerk in Baltimore, Maryland.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Killette has devoted many years to community and human service activities in the Baltimore metropolitan area, including serving as a court appointed special advocate for foster and special needs children, as well as leading a central Maryland Girl Scout troop for ten years.

Killette completed undergraduate studies in psychology and business administration at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Holiday Packages - Military Mailing Tips

In this video, Delores Killette from the United States Postal Service will demonstrate how to pack and ship holiday gifts.

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Dolores Killette: Hi, I am Dolores Killette from the United States Postal Service and I am showing you how to properly pack and ship holiday gifts. Right now, I want to share some military mailing tips with you.

Our troops look forward to receiving letters and packages from home. So it's very important that their packages arrive to the right person at the right place. The postal service will process more than 20 million pounds of mail to military installations around the world including war zones, Iraq and Afghanistan. The postal service has created a Special Mailing and Shipping Kit designed specially for military families. Each care kit contains Priority Mail boxes, labels, and tape. You can call 1800-610-8734 and ask about the care kit. Use the service member's full name and rank, mail must be addressed to someone specifically, include the unit, and the APO, or FPO address with the nine digit zip code, include a return address. Print on only one side with the recipient's name in the lower right portion. The postal service now offers a larger Priority Mail Flat Rate Box and offers a $2 discount, if it's going to a military destination. At nearly 800 cubic inches, this box is almost 50% larger than any of the flat rate box. Our new figure box gives customers more room to send more cheer to troops overseas.

So that's how you address your items on to troops overseas. Next, I would like to share with the different options you have with shipping packages.

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