Fiscal Year 2020 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the Postal Service™ due to anticipated high mail volumes that will include Election Mail, Political Mail, and Census mail. The Postal Service would like to remind employees that highly visible tags and labels are attached to trays, sacks, and containers to assist with…
Removing MTE Labels Makes a Big Difference The U.S. Postal ServiceÂŽ collects, processes, transports, and delivers mail across the nation. Mail moves through the network in sacks, trays, and tubs. A âlittleâ label identifies the destination for each container, which means a misplaced label can send the mail to the wrong destination. Postal Service™ employees…
Itâs time to make a change in sack storage. For decades, Post Offices⢠and processing plants have âbummedâ canvas and nylon sacks. The term âbumâ is a carryover from the days when mail moved by rail. Sacks rode the rails without âworking,â which they would do if they were carrying mail. Nineteen sacks were stuffed…
Mail Transport Equipment (MTE) comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors, but serves one common purpose: to move the mail. MTE is used: In plants to support machine and manual separations; In delivery units to present mail to carriers, hold mail in sequence for delivery, and collect mail from the public; In acceptance offices to…
