NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- UM, a division of IPG Mediabrands, announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Postal Service as its media agency.  UM will handle media strategy, planning and buying services. 

The account will be managed out of UM's New York office, which also serves as the agency's worldwide headquarters.

Yin Rani, North American President of UM said – "We are excited and privileged to work with the United States Postal Service – an essential part of American society and a critical component of American commerce."

ABOUT UM

UM (www.umww.com), a division of IPG Mediabrands, is a global marketing communications agency that represents some of the world's leading marketers and strategic thinkers. Our clients include Chrysler, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oreal, Microsoft and Sony. As part of the Interpublic Group of Companies, UM has 151 offices in 127 countries and employs 3,600 creative thinkers and doers. UM has set out to prove that "Curiosity Works". A performance driven agency with avid curiosity, enthusiastic collaboration and resolute accountability at its core, UM breeds a culture of curious collaborative thinkers. Yes&, for this reason, UM holds itself to a higher standard where the opportunity to take an idea further is a mandate. UM is consistently ranked as a top-ten global media network. A leader in advanced analytics, UM was named the 2011 "Media Analytics Agency of the Year" by Media Magazine. At the Malaysia Media Awards UM was named Agency of the Year for the second consecutive year. UM was also named Network of the Year at the inaugural Festival of Media Asia.

ABOUT THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE

A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation — 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office™ Boxes. The Postal Service™ receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com®, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world's mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, Oxford Strategic Consulting ranked the U.S. Postal Service number one in overall service performance of the posts in the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.

SOURCE UM