By D. Eadward Tree – January 11, 2017 More than seven years after it began rolling out, the billion-dollar system that was supposed to revolutionize how publications and other flat mail are handled is still making the U.S. Postal Service less, not more, efficient. In fact, the Flats Sequencing Systemâs performance, already well below plan,…
The most current FSS deployment information [XLS] including: FSS locations, deployment schedules, operational sites, and FSS zones. Source: RIBBS – USPS National Customer Support Center
Background The U.S. Postal Service initially deployed the Management Operating Data System (MODS) to collect data to evaluate plant efficiency. The Postal Service uses MODS data to assign labor costs to Postal Service products and to calculate productivities for plant operations. New employees are initially assigned a labor code that assigns workhours to a default…
Catalogs are being damaged so frequently in the mail that one company has turned the problem into a new business venture. âA recent project involving a national catalog brand showed that 23 percent of the catalogs received by our field agents arrived in poor condition,â a US Monitor press release said recently. The company is…
