An order from U.S. Postal Service headquarters hasn’t stopped some mail-processing plants in Washington state from hooking up their high-speed letter-sorting machines again. Despite a national order ...
Louis DeJoy testified that he would not return the now off-line letter sorting machines, but we found at least one is back online at the Tacoma Mail Processing and Distribution Center. A USPS ...
When we last left this subject, I told you all about Transorma, the first letter-sorting machine in semi-wide use. But before and since Transorma, machines have come about to perform various tasks on ...
A short silent film showing the Multi-Position Letter Sorting Machine (MPLSM). MPLSM operators used 20-key keyboards to type in two or three numbers from the ZIP code, so the machine could then sort ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Seven mail sorting machines have been dismantled at the United States Postal Service's Portland processing and distribution facility, according to multiple USPS employees. The ...
Following a national uproar over the removal of postal equipment and reductions of retail service hours and worker overtime, the Trump Administration’s new postmaster general announced Tuesday that he ...
This summer the American Postal Workers Union filed a grievance against the U.S. Postal Service over the agency’s plans to decommission 671 mail-sorting machines at facilities across the country.
It didn’t take too long for hand-canceling to get out of hand. The first cancelling machine, created in 1875, made fairly quick work of that. The thing was hand-fed, hand-cranked, and only worked on ...
U.S. Postal Service facilities in Wisconsin are reportedly not complying with multiple court orders requiring them to reverse changes that caused widespread mail delays, Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) ...
SCARBOROUGH, Maine (WMTW) - Postal workers have reassembled one of the two high-speed letter sorting machines that were ordered dismantled over the summer, according to our media partner, WMTW News 8.