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We appreciate your interest in the Postal Service and are interested to consider your ideas, suggestions, and any related materials (herein “Ideas”). Please note, however, that we receive many ideas gratuitously, some of which are duplicative, some of which we have already considered, and some of which we have already developed on our own. Thus, there is a fair chance that your Ideas are not new to us.
Though we encourage you to submit Ideas for our consideration, we must abide by some requirements to accept your Ideas for consideration. For legal reasons for the security of the organization, we must require you to be bound by the Terms discussed below before we can review your Ideas. In particular, please note that, for the security of the Postal Service and other legal reasons, we cannot receive your Ideas in confidence and cannot agree to keep your Ideas confidential.
If you do NOT WANT to agree to be bound to these Terms, DO NOT SUBMIT an “Innovations@USPS Form” or proposal describing your Ideas.
If you SUBMIT an Innovations@USPS® Form or proposal describing your Ideas to the Postal Service, then YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THESE TERMS.
- By submitting an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal describing your Ideas to the Postal Service, you are representing that your Ideas are provided on a non-confidential basis. You are agreeing that the Postal Service has not and is not promising to keep your Ideas confidential and has no obligation to do so.
- You are agreeing that your Ideas are protected only to the extent that your Ideas are now or later protected under copyright and patent laws applicable to the Postal Service.
- By submitting an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal, you are representing and agreeing that doing so does not violate any agreement or understanding you may have with another party, including other organizations, and former and current employers, or their policies and procedures or the like that govern you. Please do not submit an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal describing your Ideas unless you are certain that you are correct in making this representation.
- By submitting an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal, you are representing and agreeing that you have the full right to disclose this Idea to the Postal Service and that the Ideas are not owned by any third party and that you are not subject to an obligation of confidentiality concerning these Ideas.
- By submitting an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal, you are representing and agreeing that you are not in violation of any law rule, or regulation of any governmental entity. Please do not submit an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal describing your Ideas unless you are certain that you are correct in making this representation.
- By submitting an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal, you are representing and agreeing that you waive any claims of any nature and including any claim of compensation, whatsoever arising out of your submission of the Innovations@USPS Form or proposal or other disclosure by you to the Postal Service.
- By submitting an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal, you are agreeing that the Postal Service has no obligation to return to you any material you submit.
- By submitting an Innovations@USPS Form or proposal, you are agreeing that these Terms apply to any disclosure whatsoever that you make to the Postal Service.
- TO EMPLOYEES: If you are a Postal employee, submitting your idea or suggestion at this site will not be considered an employee idea/suggestion submission. Postal employees must follow the employee idea/suggestion rules and procedures to be eligible for any incentive awards under that program.
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