The Postal Service’s new extended capacity vehicles are hitting the road. USPS held a ribbon cutting at headquarters last week to launch the rollout of more than 9,000 Ram ProMaster 2500 cargo vans, just in time for the peak holiday season. “This is the first large purchase we’ve made of new vehicles in several years,”…
The Postal Service helps make the holidays happen by connecting the right people, systems and technology, a new promotional video shows. “We have one of the nation’s largest workforces, and we’ve delivered the holidays longer than any other carrier,” the narrator says. “At the Heart of the Holidays,” which is available on the Postal Service’s…
Project Title: Package Delivery Scanning – Chicago District Start Date: Monday, August 24, 2015 Estimated Report Release Date: February 2016 Today the U.S. Postal Service uses several delivery status events to create a fully visible delivery system. It has increased its tracking from five to 13 possible scanning events, and uses both active and automated…
By Edward A. Sanchez – September 28, 2015 With an estimated nationwide fleet of more than 190,000 vehicles, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is a big customer. With the rise of online shopping, the once-embattled quasi-government agency is seeing a resurgence in the demand for its services. But as always, it still competes with…
September 28, 2015 Self-driving vehicles might seem like a plot device in a science fiction movie — think iRobot or Total Recall – but actually, they’re already here. Google and other companies have been testing driverless vehicles for several years, and some aspects of semi-autonomous vehicle technology, like automatic parallel parking, are available in some…
By Suzanne McCarroll – September 24, 2015 DENVER (CBS4)– The U.S. Post Office is hiring 900 people along the Front Range for the holiday season. More than half those jobs have the potential to become careers or full-time positions. UPS is also hiring more than 1,000 positions across the state. Fewer people are mailing letters…
It’s now the norm to see doorstep delivery of groceries, medication, dry cleaning, oversized patio furniture, and basically anything else you can think of. And we expect those deliveries on demand, sometimes even the same day we place the order. Technology has raised consumer expectations and, in turn, those expectations are spawning an avalanche of…
The Troy, MI, Post Office has made dramatic improvements in scanning, a crucial service that is helping USPS grow its package delivery business. The office is averaging about 99.7 percent after adopting a process called “scan, clear and deliver.” The new approach focuses on making sure parcels that arrive before 9 a.m. are delivered that…
