Supplier Diversity
Corporate Plan

The Postal Service™ is the world’s most efficient post. Its universal
service obligation ensures that every citizen can send and receive mail
at affordable prices. This entails maintaining a delivery network that
reaches all addressees and providing customers with ready access to
postal services, a range of products, uniform prices, and mail. To do
this, we must maintain an optimal supply chain that consists of engaging
suppliers who offer value-added solutions to keep our business on
the path to long-term sustainability.

The Postal Service is committed to providing contracting opportunities
to small, minority-owned and women-owned businesses. We strive
to incorporate ‘agility’, which includes flexibility, balance, and adaptability,
throughout our supply chain. Historically, these suppliers have
demonstrated business agility by maintaining and adapting goods and
services to meet customer demands, while adjusting to changes in the
business environment.

Within the Postal Service, all employees who generate a requirement,
approve a purchase, commit postal funds, identify or select suppliers,
or manage a supplier relationship are responsible for establishing and
maintaining a strong, competitive supply base.

The Supplier Diversity Corporate Plan is developed to ensure a continued
focus on improving supplier relationships with small, minority-owned
and women-owned businesses. The plan is a comprehensive
overview of activities designed to position the Postal Service to
reinforce its foundation for a sustainable future.

Patrick R. Donahoe
Chief Executive Officer and
Postmaster General

Susan M. Brownell
Vice President
Supply Management