USPS: New robotic system helps boost plant’s productivity

April 21, 2023 While the Postal Service uses robots in plants across the country, the system recently installed at the Topeka, KS, Material Distribution Center might be the most advanced yet. The busy center — often called the Postal Service’s warehouse — stores approximately 33,000 different items, including repair parts, supplies, stamps and more that…

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USPS: New tray recycling guidelines

March 22, 2021 The Postal Service wants facilities to change the way unusable plastic trays and buckets are shipped to the Topeka, KS, Material Distribution Center (MDC) for recycling. The MDC recycles trays and buckets previously used on automated flat sorting machines and flats sequencing systems. Under new guidelines, plants are required to stack blue…

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USPS: Hand sanitizer, disposable face masks available

The Postal Service has surplus quantities of hand sanitizer — widely used to prevent transmission of the coronavirus — available to ship to facilities for employees’ use. Supply Management has temporarily removed internal catalog quantity limitations and streamlined the ordering of this product. Facilities can order cases of 8-ounce Purell Gel Instant Pump or 16-ounce…

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USPS: Order pandemic supplies now for peak delivery season

The Postal Service wants to ensure facilities have sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment and other coronavirus pandemic-related material as the organization gears up for the peak delivery season in the fall. In a memo last week, USPS encouraged facility managers to use August and September to build their inventories for the end of the…

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USPS has millions of surgical masks on hand — Order them!

From: Dean, Rickey R – Washington, DC <rickey.r.dean@usps.gov> Sent: Thursday, April 2, 2020 10:31 AM To: Vance Zimmerman <vzimmerman@apwu.org> Cc: Mills, David E – Washington, DC <david.e.mills@usps.gov> Subject: RE: masks Topeka now has millions of surgical masks on hand. They just need to order them. Rickey Rickey R Dean Manager Contract Administration (APWU) U. S….

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USPS bumps up collection times at hundreds of points across Kansas

By Justin Wingerter – November 28, 2015 The U.S. Postal Service has changed its collection times at hundreds of points across Kansas since August, an adjustment critics say is causing a slow degradation of postal quality in the state. Brian Sperry, a regional spokesman for the Postal Service, said 340 collection points west of Topeka…

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USPS OIG: Topeka, KS, Material Distribution Center – Information Technology General Controls

Audit Report – IT-AR-14-006 – 06/11/2014 BACKGROUND: In June 2013, the U.S. Postal Service completed consolidation of all print operations into the National Print Center in the administrative building at the Topeka, KS, Material Distribution Center. As a result of this cost-cutting measure, the National Print Center now processes about 192,000 payroll checks and 107,000…

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Postal Service finalizes decision to sell downtown building

Officials deliver ruling on appeal of Feb. 5 relocation decision The U.S. Postal Service has finalized its decision to close and sell its main post office building at 424 S. Kansas Ave. in downtown Topeka. Tom Samra, the postal service’s vice president for facilities, this week sent Mayor Larry Wolgast a letter informing him the…

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