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Sylvester Black was named Vice President, Area Operations, for the Western Area in July 2002. In this role, Black is the senior postal official in an area that encompasses the states of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, the western and southern portions of Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, western Wisconsin, and Wyoming. He is based in Denver and is responsible for all postal operations including mail processing and distribution, customer service, and administrative operations for these areas.
The Western Area serves a population of 46 million postal customers. It is the largest geographical postal area in the country. It covers 2 million square miles 60 percent of the total United States land mass.
Black previously served as Capital Metro operations manager, responsible for all postal operations in the Baltimore, Capital, Richmond, and Northern Virginia districts.
Black also served as vice president, Networks Operations Management, where he was responsible for logistics, aviation mail security, international operations and Priority Mail functions. Earlier, Black served as manager and postmaster of the New York, NY, district, where he was responsible for managing a workforce of 18,000 and an annual operation budget of nearly $1 billion, while serving some 3 million customers and 1.3 million addresses in the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.
Black began his postal career in 1974 as an accounting assistant at the Des Moines, IA, Bulk Mail Center. He held several other positions in the Midwest and in 1986, was named controller of the St. Paul, MN, division. He was appointed controller of the New York division in 1989 and subsequently was promoted to New York senior director of operations, prior to becoming district manager/postmaster.
Black holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa. He also has studied at Columbia University, Duke University and the University of Virginia.
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