Pros And Cons Of The US Government Printing Office

According to a Case Study-United States Postal Service (Jan 06, 2010), retrieved from: http://www.slideshare.net/bakeursilly/usps; since 1175 when Benjamin Franklin was appointed as the first postmaster general of the United States, the agency known as the United States Postal Service (USPS) has grown to become an institution that delivers about half of the world’s mail in snow, rain, and the dark of the night. Employing about 656,000 workers and 218,684 vehicles, 36,496 total retail and delivery facilities nationwide, 599 processing facilities, 584 million pieces is the average volume per day, and a total work hour of 1,258,025 per year delivering over 200 billion items per year via air and highway.

The fact that technology is evolving every second means that the way we design, create and even advertise it is changed. Designer can go a long way, in many different directions. Even though the innovations introduced have a major positive impact, they do have a negative one as well.

Elimination of paper documents except as backup for downtime events will provide cost savings to the organization. Savings will come from decreased printing cost as well as decreased cost of storage of paper charts, decreased cost of scanning paper documents into the EHR, decreased printing and decrease cost of document destruction.

printers and copiers to bulk create documents in the least expensive way possible. Hole punches to allow paperwork to be placed in binders or small folders easily.

Document collaboration capability allowing the retrieval, editing, and updating of documents and information in near real time, provide some form of version control, and eliminate the need to email documents between

Finally, around 2012 the Army acquired the technology that included the digital signature that would allow them to truly go paperless. The technology had existed for five years, but the Army’s slow procurement and distribution process was one of the many lessons learned: in the digital age, the Army had to move faster and be more flexible to change. This paperless platform would allow the Army to overhaul all administrative systems. The Publication Directorate stopped printing paper copies of manuals and regulations, and posted the digital copies to an online library, where changes could easily be updated. Evaluations could be completed online, signed online, and submitted online. Leave forms and award recommendations could go from one user to approver with the click of a button across the world if needed. And promotion boards no longer needed to flip through endless reams of paper to select candidates-just click through digital copies of a file for a potential promotion candidate.

Jobs such as bowling alley pinsetters, lamplighters, iceman, and telegraph operator have become obsolete; in twenty years mailman will join this list. The United States Postal Service, in the eyes of the state, is no longer recognized as a government agency causing the postmanpostal man to pay their own health care. The mail companies now are becoming behind on payment, because of the little cost of stamps, packages, and letters. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports an estimate of a total twenty-eight percent decline from the year two thousand twelve to two thousand twenty-two;, The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reports a total number of one hundred and thirty-nine thousand and one hundred layoffs of the same years previously mentioned

I think that some federal government offices should be privatized because there are no competitors. So, their services and attitudes tend to become worse. For example, DMV is a really good example. When I searched on the Internet to find some reviews about DMV, I could find lots of reviews of complaints. A writer says that “Today, uneducated lady informed me that my early renewal of DL will require retaking written test – later on that day it occurred that it is not true, however they could not process my paper work – due to be late. I do not even want to mention that I had an appointment. I am pretty sure 3rd world country embassies work better.” from February 2017.” Even though Japanese DMV is not privatized and we have to wait a long time,

Would you be better off allowing officials/FBI’s prying into your phone to check for suspicious activities or not? For such case like this, it is very difficult to decide immediately, but still yet others might argue that it is not safe for officials to inquire too closely into someone’s private affairs. After the San Bernardino terrorist attack that left fourteen people dead, the FBI is currently negotiating with Apple CEO Tim Cook to help decrypt data including passcode stored on Syed Rizwan Farook (terrorist) iPhone 5c. Without the passcode, it’s extremely difficult for feds to investigate more on the San Bernardino terrorist attack.

Mail has been around since the beginning of the United States and was once the number one way to communicate with others far away. Now in modern days, the United States Postal Service(USPS) is outdated and considered inferior to other communication tools like email or text messaging. The people of today fancy the fast and artless rout of communication, but the “old fashioned, hand written letter” can be resurrected if vital changes are made to the United States Postal Service (source F). The USPS should modernize itself to catch up with today’s world and remain as a source of jobs and services to the people of the United States.

While in Florida I researched tablets that were able to convert handwriting to text and found one that contained the features I thought would be necessary to eliminate the hardcopy documentation and complete the gap assessment electronically. The transition to the electronic documentation cut the time of completion significantly from 20 to 24 hours to around 10 to 16. By converting the hardcopy form to electronic, Operational Security saved 350 administrative hours throughout the remaining footprint of Duke Energy. Those 350 hours equates to about 8.5 weeks and $13,476 dollars saved in administrative work. A savings of 36%, when compared to our original projections. Since the conclusion of the project, every region received a tablet and I have trained everyone on the inspection and documentation process. The method has been adopted throughout our footprint and adapted to be used on a very similar project where all NERC CIP sites have to be inspected bi-annually, that is currently underway which I am

There are many delays in processing documents, which effect the reliability, security and efficiency of the company and documents. Failed and missing transmission reports make it difficult to track the location of a document, and puts the delivery of the document into question. This increases the time and expense involved in completing the task. By implementing training for Right Fax 10 we will improve upon the productivity of the company, by minimizing the time needed to process tasks, and the related expenses. Supervisors, as well as employees of KPM Car Dealership have recognized the need to upgrade to a more beneficial system. Avoiding the need for supervisory overrides and exceptions for clients, protects the company from breaches in security. This efficiency will optimize the skills of the staff and the service they provide to their customers. So as a lean savings plan we are introducing right fax 10.0.

earned $ 1 billion in profits” (p.31). This is a candid illustration of an organization that was cognizant of a product that was demand by customers; and thus subsequently, erected a product of quality that met the satisfaction of those customers. Henceforth, since the Xerox 914 was the first plain paper copier with patented rights to the Xerox, Inc. the organization enjoyed great competitive advantage to other innovative organizations in its industry. However, organizations have to be careful in implementing radical steps that will inhibit competitors from manufacturing products of similar quality. Mulcaster (2009) states that, “firms that are considering expanding their market share through means of strategy implementation, product improvement, and aggressive marketing in order increase sales and benefit from profits will be challenged by competitors to gain market share” (para. 1). Consequently, other innovative competitors that occupied the same industry as Xerox, Inc. challenged the Xerox, Inc. for monopolizing the market.

Up to second half year of 2009, Canon has reduced the use of new resources by 150,000 tons and CO2 emission by 370,000 tons. Likewise, CHK from 2008 has established Ink Cartridge Collection boxes placed in voluntary schools, shopping malls, computer centres and commercial buildings. All used cartridges collected will be delivered to factory for decomposition and recycling as materials of other products.

They said that design is moving closer to the social innovation linking its characteristics at different levels. For example, service and relationships to social needs or improving life conditions and social situations.