The Postal Service is rolling out thousands of new touch-screen mobile delivery devices (MDDs) to letter carriers across the nation. Approximately 15,000 Post Offices will receive 200,000 new devices during the rollout, which began in late March and will continue through September. By then, every letter carrier will have one of the new scanners. This…
Objective Our objective was to assess the Postal Service’s management of Highway Contract Route (HCR) compliance with the Global Positioning System (GPS) program. In June 2016, the Postal Service developed the Enterprise Transportation Analytics (ETA) system which uses GPS technology to provide near real-time visualizations and reports of HCR vehicles and thus enabling management to…
(KGO) – The United States Postal Service is looking to secure legislative funding for new mail trucks. Gus Ruiz with the San Jose Postal Service branch says that the trucks the service uses now are outdated. He said, “on any given day we have 214,000 vehicles on the road at one time delivering mail. Those…
