Kenneth John is President of Postal Policy Associates, a consulting firm that focuses on postal policy and politics. He provides expert advice with particular emphasis on U.S. Postal Service (USPS) finances and postal reform, including options for USPS and postal retiree benefits.
Kenneth previously served with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), where he worked on postal issues for more than 20 years as a Senior Analyst on GAO’s Physical Infrastructure Team. He prepared testimonies and reports on the U.S. Postal Service’s financial condition and outlook, business model, postal reform, postal retiree health benefits, modes of delivery, USPS electronic commerce, and USPS’s mailbox monopoly. He served as lead analyst on many projects, with responsibilities including research design, data collection, analysis, and reporting. He began his GAO career in 1990 as a Social Science Analyst, working as a research methodologist and survey research specialist. He received numerous GAO awards, including the Meritorious Service Award and the Client Service Award, which are among the agency’s highest honors.
Prior to working at GAO, Kenneth was a Senior Analyst for the survey research firm Schulman, Ronca & Bucuvalas. He began his career as Polling Analyst for the Washington Post, where he helped design and conduct the Washington Post Poll, including pre-election polls and other public opinion surveys. He authored “Other Voices,” a weekly column on survey research findings for the National Weekly Edition of the Washington Post. He also designed readership surveys and oversaw data collection for telephone surveys. While at the Post, he served as President of the Washington, D.C. chapter of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and subsequently on the national AAPOR council as Chair of Publications and Information.
He graduated from the University of California at Davis (B.A. — Political Science) and from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (M.A. — Public Affairs).
