Shake-Up Continues : Postal Service Gets New Managers

The shake-up in top management at the U.S. Postal Service continued Friday with Postmaster General Albert V. Casey naming seven key executives and promoting Fletcher F. Acord to a new No. 3 job.

In the new position, called associate postmaster general, Acord will take charge of marketing, communications, facilities, supplies, employee and labor relations, management information and research technology.

Marketing Emphasized

The job elevates the marketing and information functions of postal management to a much higher level, in line with Casey’s insistance that the Postal Service put itself in a position to compete more effectively with other delivery services.

Acord has been central regional postmaster general in Chicago, overseeing mail operations in 13 states.

He will be replaced in that job by Jerry K. Lee, presently senior assistant postmaster general for management information and research technology.

That post will be taken over by Kenneth J. Hunter, now assistant postmaster general for information resource management.

Mitchell H. Gordon, senior assistant postmaster general for administration, will head the new marketing and communications group.

The group includes an expanded marketing department, the consumer advocate, the public and employee communications department and the international postal affairs department.

Another new post, senior assistant postmaster general for facilities and supplies, will be filled by Edward E. Horgan, Jr., now eastern regional postmaster general based in Philadelphia.

He will oversee real estate and buildings, procurement and supply operations as well as the postal service judicial officer.

New Controller

He will be replaced in the Philadelphia job, which supervises operations in the District of Columbia, five states and parts of two others, by Johnny F. Thomas, now regional director for customer services for the southern region based in Memphis.

Casey also appointed a new controller, Richard Porras, now northern New Jersey district manager. The controller’s job was left vacant when Stephen E. Miller was put in charge head the rates and classifications department.

Casey said he will appoint managers to the vacated field posts later this month.