April 23, 2024 The USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City — the first such center in use and the last one still standing — celebrated 30 years of service last week. The center receives digital images of letters and packages with illegible addresses from other postal facilities around the country. More than 730…
Background Surface Transfer Centers are facilities where mail and packages are received in containers for consolidation and staging to be loaded and transported to other facilities. These transfer centers also serve as a concentration point to consolidate mail volume and reduce the number of trips needed to transport mail. They are strategically located in a…
August 8, 2022 At the Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City, keyers process 1.2 billion images of mail every year. Source: Tom Scott / YouTube Related: Salt Lake USPS facility the last in US to decode poorly penned mailing addresses (2018)
Background The U.S. Postal Service uses Area Mail Processing (AMP) guidelines to consolidate mail processing functions and increase productivity through more efficient use of equipment, facilities, staffing, and transportation. These consolidations are intended to reduce costs and maintain quality service. The Postal Service conducted an AMP feasibility study for the Rock Springs Customer Service Mail…
October 20, 2015 On Tuesday, local government officials took a tour of the United States Post Office processing center that closed down in April. The mayors of Pocatello and Chubbuck along with representatives from Senator Crapo’s office, postal officials from Pocatello and Salt Lake City and the executive director of Old Town Pocatello toured the…
Since the world has not yet invented a robot capable of reading crappy handwriting, a team of the finest postal workers in the United States toils day and night in an effort to deliver the most indecipherable of mail. Shifts last eight hours, and employees are trained to take ten seconds or less with each…
By Mike Headrick – April 28, 2015 A KSL investigation showed the United States Postal Service owes Salt Lake City thousands of dollars in unpaid parking tickets. After the story aired, both sides agreed to resolve the issue, but it appears postal workers are still breaking city laws. “How many (tickets) have you gotten?” KSL…
Web News Article #: 167-2014 09/11/2014 – If Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe thought his speech to a group of business mailers in Salt Lake City on Sept. 10 was going to be a quiet, uneventful affair, he was mistaken. A coalition of unions and postal customers showed up outside the Grand America Hotel, the site…
