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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When the letter arrives at the local distribution-and-processing center, it gets put into machines that sort mail now—not by city or by zip code but by actual carrier route within the city.

The idea was to sort large, flat envelopes and packages from regular letters and then pass them on to other machinery. At some point, a study was done on culling machines which found that they ...

The letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy ... DeJoy vehemently refused to restore decommissioned mail-sorting machines and blue collection boxes, saying they are not needed.

Specifically, the documents show that "the United States Postal Service proposed removing 20% of letter sorting machines it uses around the country before revising the plan weeks later to closer ...

The postal workers say the letter sorting machines were taken offline and disconnected electrically in the last two weeks, and that more are scheduled to be decommissioned. I’ve received photos ...

Delivery Barcode Sorter (DBCS) machines at USPS facilities read the barcodes on each letter and sort them. Each machine can sort around 36,000 pieces of mail in an hour. The machine normally takes ...

More than 20 mail-sorting machines have recently been taken offline across the state, according to the union. We requested and are awaiting confirmation on those numbers from USPS's Swanson.