DoD may outsource mail delivery
Source: By KAREN JOWERS, STEPHEN LOSEY and DAN DAVIDSON, Federal Times, January 30, 2006
The Defense Department is starting to move forward on a plan to outsource its billion-dollar-plus mail operation, which would be one of the government’s biggest privatization projects in recent years. An influential advisory group concluded doing so would save money, improve mail service and free up troops badly needed for war-fighting. Senior Pentagon leaders appear to favor outsourcing the work, which is performed by 352 civilian employees, 4,470 military personnel and 363 contractors who now handle the military’s mail.