[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 40 (Thursday, April 14, 1994)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
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[Congressional Record: April 14, 1994]
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        BRIGHT IDEA NETS ST. LOUIS POSTAL EMPLOYEE $35,000 AWARD

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                        HON. WILLIAM (BILL) CLAY

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 14, 1994

  Mr. CLAY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to offer 
my congratulations to Georgia Stribling, an account technician at the 
Postal Service's St. Louis, MO, Accounting Service Center. Ms. 
Stribling recently became the first female to earn $35,000, the Postal 
Service's highest monetary award, for a suggestion implemented through 
the employee suggestion program.
  Her idea involved a process to eliminate duplicate payments on 
replacement money orders. The use of the plan has saved the government 
more than $2 million and the savings will continue to mount on a year-
to-year basis.
  Ms. Stribling also had made many previous suggestions for improving 
service and saving money. Nineteen of her ideas have been implemented. 
She received bonus money for 16 of these, but had never received more 
than $800. Some of these suggestions resulted in the elimination of 
duplicate work in the data entry of the Treasury check information and 
simplifying the process to find out when international money orders 
were issued simply by suggesting the date be printed on the money 
orders.
  Ms. Stribling's 21 years of dedicated service with the Postal Service 
speak well for many loyal Postal workers who often go unheralded and 
Ms. Stribling most certainly deserves the acclaim of all of us.

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