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& other stormy assignments Elections, budgets ROAD SHOW FOR REPORTERS WORKSHOP Indiana The June 21 • Indianapolis Register now at Volume 77, Issue 11 • May 24, 2012 Publisher HSPAfoundation.org/ roadshow Published alternate Thursdays Don't miss early registration for training Send your reporters to the Road Show Registration continues at a reduced rate through May 30 for the Road Show for Reporters. After that date the fee increases for the annual training session. The workshop June 21 in Road Show for Reporters training What: "Elections, Budgets & Other Stormy Assignments," a daylong workshop for beginning reporters and those who want to brush up on the basics When: 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 21 Where: The Indianapolis Star's Indianapolis will emphasize the theme "Elections, Budgets and Other Stormy Assign ments." Indiana Associated Press Managing Editors and HSPA Foundation sponsor the semi- Pulliam Production Center, 8278 N. Georgetown Road, Indianapolis (not the downtown office) Cost: $30 by May 30; $40 after that date; includes breakfast, lunch and a 2012 AP Stylebook Registration: HSPAfoundation.org/ roadshow nar for beginning journalists and those who want to brush up on skills. place at The Indianapolis Star's Pulliam Production Center, 8278 N. Georgetown Road, Indianapolis. Please note: This location is not the newspaper's downtown Indianapolis office. The 2012 Road Show will include sessions featuring: • A panel discussion with journalists who covered the deadly tornadoes that struck the state this year This year's event will take • Covering government budgets • Public access to informa- tion • Tips on reporting and writing election stories • Avoiding editing errors, especially in election coverage • AP style and updates in the 2012 Stylebook. The cost is $30 per person by the early-bird deadline on May 30. After that, registration is See TRAINING, Page 3 Mail changes ahead I Haute will close during the months-long imple- mentation period. The nationwide plan is expect- ed to produce $1.2 billion in cost reductions. The Postal Service is moving ahead with a modified plan to consolidate its network of 461 mail processing locations in phases. The first phase of activities ndiana is losing three mail-processing sites as part of the U.S. Postal Service consolida- tion plan. Facilities in Columbus, Bloomington and Terre New rules on electronic editions ben- efit commu- nity papers. INSIDE Page 2 will result in up to 140 consolidations through February. Unless the circumstances of the Postal Service change in the interim, a second and final phase of 89 consolidations is currently scheduled to begin in February 2014. "We simply do not have the mail volumes to HSPA FOUNDATION GOLF OUTING More than a fundraiser North vs. South Challenge for the Freedom Cannon We're looking for a few brave recruits to join both sides of the skirmish for the Freedom Cannon on Thursday, June 7, at Southern Dunes Golf Course in Indianapolis. Leave the muskets at home. This battle begins with clubs. Join the Yankees as they try to quiet that Rebel Yell, or team up with the Southerners as they plot an ambush. A blind draw will determine which North and South foursomes face each other in match play scored after all teams finish the scramble. The side with the most victories wins the Cannon. justify the size and capacity of our current mail processing network," said Patrick R. Donahoe, Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the Postal Service. "To return to long-term profitability and financial stability while keeping mail affordable, we must match our network to the anticipated workload." Take note: Postal tips from NNA Mail might take longer to reach its destination after the U.S. See MAIL, Page 3 Max Heath, National Newspaper Association Postal Committee chairman, offers these tips for newspapers affected by the planned closure of three mail-pro- cessing facilities in Indiana: • Newspapers should use "Excep tional Dispatch" privileges in DMM 707.28.3 to drop as much carrier-route sorted mail into the offices where it is delivered inside the primary market area, usually a county. There is a discount for such drops. And the papers can be in unsacked bundles to Destination Delivery Units. • Newspapers should discuss with the manager of the plant Postal Service consolidates mail-handling facilities. to be closed whether any direct (5-digit/carrier-route) containers to post offices within the 3-digit ser- vice territory outside the primary market area can be handed off to the existing post-office network without moving that mail all the way to the more distant receiving plant. "We have pretty firm promises, strengthened by NNA's interven- tion in the service standards case accompanying these changes, that this will be the case," Heath said. "Vice President of Network Operations David Williams repeat- ed in a meeting with me recently that USPS doesn't want to incur excess transportation costs to run certain containers up and down the road without any processing need. Direct containers don't get opened and worked until they get to their destination ZIP." • Newspapers need to clean up any noncodable addresses (not showing 9-digit ZIP) remaining in the 3-digit-sorted "working" mail container to get as many of them as possible into direct containers. "While it won't be possible to eliminate all of them, at least you maximize delivery of all you can," Heath said. "Odds are, any working container for 3-digits will go 'upstream' and of course be delayed." INSIDE Fussbudgets: Keeping records secret from the public can be costly, writes Steve Key. Page 4 Electronic subscriptions: Read up on new regulations from the U.S. Postal Service. Page 2 Join in the fun for more surprises (of a friendly nature). The annual golf fundraiser supports programming of HSPA Foundation. The Mason-Dixie line will remain flexible until all teams and individuals register. or to register online, visit www.HSPAfoundation.org/golf-outing For more information

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