It takes the input of many to create a successful PCC.  Here's a list of industry and postal partners recently honored for their contributions to the Utah PCC.

Legacy Award
●Richard Boudrero, Manager, Central Distribution, Utah State University. Richard has been an active member of the Utah PCC since 1984—close to 30 years.  Has previously been the industry co-chair, is a member of the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee -- a national group that provides input to the postal leaders -- has mentored other PCC members and his own employees, is currently our group’s vice president and will take over as president next year.

Award of Merit
●Rex Carlisle, Director of Distribution and Fulfillment, Deseret Book.  Rex served as the Industry Co-Chair during 2010.    Rex was the steady, thoughtful hand who got us going in the direction that has made us so successful of late.  Because of that success, Rex was invited to meet with top postal management and the Postal Service Board of Governors – the first time we’ve ever had a co-chair invited to do that.

●Lynda Cornia, Graphic Artist, SOS Staffing.   We’ve sent out more hard copy mailings this year than any other year in the history of our group.  Plus we’ve had wonderful printed materials for National PCC Day.  The design person behind every single one of those hard copy designs was Lynda Cornia.

●Kristi Patterson, Regional Sales manager, MSI Worldwide Mailing.  Kristi is currently serving as the secretary of our group for the second year in a row.  You might not know that our organization gets audited nearly every year – and Kristi’s accurate minutes are vitally important to that audit.  She’s been an enthusiastic supporter of the PCC and does many extra tasks to help out – from providing free pens for PCC Day to even offering to help set up events. Her enthusiasm is endless and we appreciate her.

Business Partners of the Year
●Salt Lake Mailing and Printing and its president, Gary McCarver.    Salt Lake Mailing in the top ten in mailing revenue in the Salt Lake District and is a growing company and Gary volunteered to help with our printing this year. 

●Skymail, International and Mike Jones and Jason Hermansen
Skymail is one of the top five revenue producers in the Salt Lake District.   They are a leader in presort mail and a leader in Intelligent Mail Barcode.  In addition, Mike is a “major player” in the Utah PCC golf tournament. 

●Presort Essentials and Gary Allen and Suzie Moss
Presort Essentials has been in business for approximately 8 years and is one of the top five revenue producers for the Postal Service in the district.   To achieve such rapid growth in such a short time is exceptional.

In Appreciation
●Brigham Young University and especially Thom Roylance, BYU’s Assistant Director, Copy Centers-Mail Services.  Thom arranged so his crew could print the mailing for our Package Services Lunch and Learn, which was one of our most successful events.

●Skymail – Founder and CEO Mike Jones and Sales Executive Jason Hermansen:  Mike and Jason volunteered to print one of our newsletters, printed the brochure for our Address Quality lunch and learn and prepared numerous brochures for mailing.

●Questar – Manager George Pace:   George arranged for last fall’s PCC newsletter to be printed.

●Carr Printing – Lloyd Carr, President, Carr Printing:   Lloyd printed the PCC day brochure and mailed Business Mail Lunch and Learn  brochure – plus wrote a great article on advertising mail and the environment for one of our newsletters.

● Manager of Claims Operations, Workers Compensation Fund Travis Merrill – Travis arranged for us to hold the majority of our Lunch and learns and Worker Compensation’s state of the art training facility.  If you’ve been there, you know how wonderful that it.

●DeVaughn Simper, Manager, Quality Assurance, Send Out Cards – DeVaughn hosted the Business Mail Lunch and Learn to a packed house.

● Gloria Rueckert, USPS secretary --   Not always seen, but always extremely important,  Gloria handles the vast majority of the behind the scenes details, from buying ice for the drinks at the Lunch and Learns to paying bills in the thousands of dollars.  She’s prepared every name tag and name tent you’ve ever seen at a PCC meeting; handles all the details of credit card, check and PayPal payments; is always the first person you see at a PCC event as she always runs the registration table; prepares just about every document every signed by the co chairs; and proofs newsletters and brochures and makes valuable suggestions.  She is so behind the scenes that you might not know she’s been the PCC treasurer since1992. As the treasurer, she balances our account to the penny after each event and treats PCC money as if it were her own.

Company Spotlight:  Express One

Editor's note:  If you'd like your company featured, call Beverly Burge at 801-974-2592.

Save more or sell more.

According to Marc Miller, Vice President of Sales at the Salt Lake City-based company Express One, those are the only real options most companies have to remain competitive.  And per Marc, “companies who take advantage of Express One’s partnership with the United States Postal Service can definitely save more when mailing parcels, which frees up resources to sell.”

Express One is a “reseller” of parcels and freight services and also offers advice on how to save on telecom services.  As for parcels, they’ve negotiated volume discounts on Priority and Express Mail with the Postal Service, which they offer to Express One franchisees and customers direct.  Their franchisees and sales reps then offer shipping solutions to small and midsized business customers at prices those businesses can’t qualify for on their own.

If you haven't already met the Express One team, here they are:  Front Row Left to right: Daryl Wilson (Director of Sales), Jim Bowers (CFO), Colby Clark (VP Business Development) and Scott Hardman (Director of Support). Back Row left to right:  Marc Miller (VP of Sales), Scott Bryce (VP of Operations), Curtis Mitchell (Director of Business Development) and Bret Miller (President and CEO).

Golf Tourney a Success

Thirty-two foursomes enjoyed the June 7^th Utah PCC Golf Tournament at Oakridge Country Club in Farmington. Winners of the shotgun, scramble format tournament were:

First place with a score of 56: Mountainland Business Systems foursome of , left to right below: Rob Andersen, Troy Van Fleet, Chad Goodell and Brad Parsons.

Second place with a score of 60, from left to right, below: Robbie Woods, Scott Hyland Brian Morris, and Travis Merrill of Workers Compensation Fund.

Third place with a 61, left to right below: Jared Hutchings, Shaun Rothwell, Jason Foster and Ryan Litke of iDrive Logistics.

In the specialty contests, Lisa Leishman and Joe Izatt -- both of Utah State University Parking and Transportation -- won longest drive to the hole. Jeff Scilley of ADP and retired postal clerk Londa Smith won closest to the hole; and Gerald McCarver of Salt Lake Mailing won longest hole putt.
 
Thanks to all players, plus everyone who donated prizes for making the tournament successful. And, a special thanks to the companies who sponsored the event: Skymail International; Utah State University; Pre Sort Essentials; Bowe, Bell and Howe;  Mountainland Business Systems; Marko Foam;  Advance Mail; Pro Star; North American Envelope; Express Postal Options International; Pitney Bowes; and the Salt Lake City Post Office.