(November 14, 2014) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors today announced the appointment of Megan J. Brennan, the current chief operating officer of the Postal Service, as the 74th Postmaster General and CEO.
Speaking at a public meeting of the Board this morning, Mickey D. Barnett, chairman of the Postal Service Board of Governors, praised Brennan – who will become the first woman to be Postmaster General – as the ideal choice to replace the current Postmaster General, Patrick R. Donahoe, who will be retiring in early 2015.
“Megan has demonstrated outstanding vision, leadership and executive ability in her role as chief operating officer, and has been extraordinarily successful in managing the operations of the Postal Service,” said Barnett.” She is highly regarded throughout the Postal Service and among the broader community of our major customers and business partners – and rightly so.”
As chief operating officer, Brennan is responsible for the day-to-day activities of 491,000 career employees working in more than 31,000 facilities supported by a fleet of more than 200,000 vehicles. She is responsible for all Postal Service operations, including mail processing, transportation, delivery and retail operations.
“As the head of operations, Megan has led important initiatives to provide Sunday delivery services, improved tracking, and greater predictability and reliability,” said Barnett. “She has also been highly successful in rationalizing our mail processing, delivery and retail operations.”
Barnett also commended Brennan’s role in maintaining high delivery performances in the face of a significant and continued reduction in workforce and resources. “Megan has managed some very large, complex organizational changes and the Postal Service never missed a beat in terms of meeting customer expectations,” said Barnett. “She instills great confidence in the ability of the organization to succeed and achieve its business goals.”
“I am deeply honored and humbled to take on this role at such an exciting time for the organization,” said Brennan. “The Postal Service plays a vital role in America’s society and economy and I’m looking forward to strengthening that role and meeting the demands of a rapidly evolving marketplace in the years ahead.”
Megan J. Brennan was named Chief Operating Officer and executive vice president in December 2010. Reporting directly to the Postmaster General, Brennan has led the continuous improvement of the postal network operation as well as the allocations of people and resources.
Previously she was vice president of Eastern Area Operations. As the senior postal official she oversaw an area that encompassed Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Central and South Jersey, Western New York and parts of Virginia and Indiana. A 28-year veteran of the Postal Service, Brennan served as vice president of Northeast Area Operations from May 2005 until being named vice president of Eastern Area Operations.
#Brennan joined the Postal Service in 1986 as a letter carrier in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and began her management career as a delivery and collection supervisor. Brennan is a graduate of Immaculata College in Pennsylvania. She is a Sloan Fellow and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Immaculata is an intellectually unheard of school. In other words, it is a crap college. That speaks to her intelligence. Every year the USPS sends some of its promising idiots to MIT for a year to get a credential to move up. USPS pays big dollars for this arrangement, and there is no competitive admissions process. She holds no real MIT MBA in actuality. Have you noticed that the selections for PMG seem to magically have an MIT MBA, but you will never find one that went to Harvard, U Chicago, Wharton (UPenn), Stanford, Cornell, Northwestern, etc.?
I love free speech and I am glad to see a change. I am now scared of thus new leader after reading a post comment from the person from Lanchester. I will now pray. We need to all !!!
An MBA doesn’t mean jack shit when a person doesn’t have any REAL world business experience outside the USPS.. I worked with Megan in Lancaster, Pa… She was a lazy, bitchy PTF letter carrier. She got hurt and was on permanent light duty.. Donahue was the Lancaster postmaster back in the day. Megan was a 204b and she latched on to Donahue. As Donahue worked his way to Harrisburg, Pa and then to D.C. he brought Megan with.. So Donahue and Megan never worked outside of the Post Office.. It will always be this revolving door of incompetence, no accountability and destruction.. So I don’t expect anything to change. Megan is part of the Potter and Donahue regime.. I wish the Predident would hire someone from the outside and not allow us to keep promoting from within.. I still don’t know why we have a Board of Governors??? They have no powers but still get paid between 40,000 and 50,000 per year on a part- time basis. Nice gig!! Can I be considered on the Board? There’s 2 openings. I’ll send my resume overnight through UPS… Lmao!!!!!
Clueless Donahue wont be missed. Brennan has opportunity to reestablish better relations with the unions. We need 7 day delivery, not 5 day delivery. Any MBA can understand we need to grow business, not shrink it. Hope she gets it.
What is the difference?
Megan. Brennan is a excellent choice.
The BOG should have given it to an outsider like Stroman,the Deputy PMG with a mandate to cut the bloated EAS ranks by the same percentage the craft ranks went down under Donawhore.
Megan Brennan is a excellent choice . She will make great. Decisions for the usps in the future. Good Luck always , randy 42 yrs of service .ps. Processing Mail on day work is the way to go.Seeing carriers deliver mail after5pm ,must stop .
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My experience in the USPS taught me that focusing on service performance and customer satisfaction led us to surplusses and praise from the community. Congress’ ridiculous financial burden not withstanding, the USPS lost its way. In other sectors of the economy, companies also lost their focus but are returning to fcustomer satisfaction as the foundation of business. Imagine that.
HURRAH! Donahoe is leaving! Yes, one skunk usually follows another, but in this situation I doubt anybody could be as worthless and destructive as Donahoe is. One wonders if he planned to leave when his handler Issa was due to leave his chairmanship, or if the fat bastard knew he would never survive the disaster with the compromised personal data of all postal employees, knowing his ass would be on the line maybe resulting in his being fired and not getting his golden parachute.
We’ll never know for sure, but I wouldn’t doubt that scenario. As for Brennan, good luck, and maybe you’ll be a little more reasonable and responsive toward the customer. Time will tell. In the meantime, good riddance to Donahoe and don’t let the door smack your fat ass on the way out.
I’m hoping Miss Brennan shows more “compassion” toward the customers & workforce than Donahoe who is a cancer to both!
I would sincerely like to believe that this new PMG would be better than the last few. With a MBA she “should” be able to avoid some of the stupid decisions of her predecessors….. but alas she is part of the team that has made these bad decisions for the past 4 years, so I have little hope that this change will be beneficial. Please, somebody, help us save the postal service and the decent jobs that it provides.
another inbred loser……sos titanic hit iceberg…..is taking on water…..does anyone hear us!