Daily printout: Sept. 2

To help mark National Preparedness Month in September, the Postal Service is reminding employees that small steps can make a big difference in being prepared.

Here are some tips:

• Know your risks. Identify potential challenges such as natural disasters, power outages or health emergencies — and plan accordingly.

• Decide how you will respond to an emergency. Where will you go if you need to evacuate? How will you shelter in place? How will you contact your family and reconnect if separated? Begin to answer these questions with your family, friends and household.

• Stay informed. Sign up to receive emergency alerts.

• Create a family emergency plan. Use this plan to prepare for evacuation or sheltering in place. Practice your plan with your household.

• Make sure you can stay in touch. Confirm mobile phone numbers and plan for charging capabilities.

• Build an emergency supply kit. Your kit should include all the essentials you and your family might need in the event of immediate evacuation. Make sure you have enough food, water and medicine to stay safe and comfortable until help arrives. Don’t forget to plan for your pets.

• Be ready to move. Keep your gas tanks filled and cash available. Safeguard important documents and medical information in a waterproof, portable container.

The Postal Service’s Personal Preparedness Blue page and the Ready.gov website have more information.

The Postal Service is providing enrollment services at six Atlantic Area Post Offices for the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA PreCheck, the expedited screening program for airport travelers.

The organization is partnering with Telos Identity Management Solutions to offer the service.

The six Post Offices are:

• Fort Hamilton, Brooklyn, NY;

• Newark Sorting and Delivery Center, Newark, NJ;

• Lenox Hill, New York City;

• Providence Main Office Walk-Up, Providence, RI;

• Boston JFK, Boston, MA; and

• Church Street, New York City.

The Postal Service also distributed poster kits to 5,156 Post Offices nationwide for display in lobbies to remind customers to enroll in TSA PreCheck or renew their membership.

These Post Offices were selected based on proximity to Telos locations to make it easier for customers to visit Telos sites to complete enrollment or renewal.

The posters display QR codes directing customers to Telos’s enrollment and renewal website. This pilot is part of the organization’s expansion of government services offerings for revenue. USPS will be paid for each enrollment or renewal that originates from a customer’s use of the QR code.

Postal Service employees can also use this link to enroll in TSA PreCheck or renew their status.

Employees with questions can email the Government Services team.

Email us your feedback. Your comments could be included in our “Mail” column.