FORT MILL, S.C., Nov. 16, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Honeywell (HON) today announced that the U.S. Postal Service has deployed more than 5,000 Honeywell handheld computers to postal workers as the organization expands its parcel tracking network.
The USPS has deployed Honeywell’s CN51 rugged handheld computers to expand its Surface Visibility program, which allows the organization to internally track packages throughout the parcel pickup, sorting and delivery process. The devices allow workers at processing locations as well as drivers to scan and capture data about incoming and outgoing parcels, providing the USPS with greater visibility into where parcels are in its system.
“As consumers continue to expect fast, accurate delivery, the Postal Service needs to know the exact location of all of its parcels throughout the entire mail process,” said Lisa London, president of Honeywell’s Productivity Products business. “By incorporating Honeywell’s mobile computing and scanning technology, the USPS gains better visibility into its operational performance and can use that data to make more informed decisions to improve customer service.”
The CN51 mobile device is designed for rugged, outdoor environments. It features a large, multi-touch screen with powerful motion tolerance and support for omnidirectional 1D and 2D barcode scanning. The mobile device can withstand multiple five-foot drops to concrete and has an IP64 seal rating against rain and dust.
The USPS is expanding its Surface Visibility program to 113 locations as well as 58 temporary facilities being used to accommodate increased holiday volume.
Honeywell has a strong legacy of supporting the USPS with mobile technology to help make drivers more productive and provide greater visibility into its transportation network. In 2014, the USPS deployed more than 270,000 Honeywell mobile computers to its postal delivery workers as part of a separate program designed to help customers track their mail and packages. The USPS honored Honeywell with a Supplier Excellence Award based on the collaboration and teamwork for the 2014 program.
Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions (www.honeywellaidc.com) provides comprehensive solutions that enhance workplace safety and incident response, improve enterprise performance and enable greater product design innovation. Customers rely on Honeywell’s connected solutions to provide real-time safety intelligence, increase worker productivity and enrich operational intelligence with data-driven insights. Honeywell serves customers in aerospace, automotive, commercial building, first responder, field service, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing, oil & gas, power and utilities, medical, retail, supply chain, test & measurement and transportation markets.
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And the batteries suck
Has nothing to do w tracking packages. Has all to do w tracking truck drivers. You people are stupid if you believe it’s anything else
can they track you in the bathroom
Just another device to enable management to discipline the hired scum. Sell the limos and eliminate bonuses to pay for the new toys! Demote some in management and make them carriers. Let them find out what it is like to really work like a trained circus animal. They can say good by to the life style of the privileged and lazy.
Well, Ms. London, you are correct that consumers expect fast accurate delivery. How about 1 out of 2? Because the USPS management wants its half paid newbies to run like hell, but tell them not to pay attention to names, even when they are in the mailbox. We have adhesive sleeves and tags to write the last names of residents that remind us career carriers of address changes, but most new carriers are told to just leave everything and “let the regular clean it up”. In my 32+ years of being a city letter carrier, I have never seen such deliberate indifference toward the customer.
Back many moons ago, we were drilled about the importance of handling the mail as properly and accurately as possible. That meant checking change of address cards if you were a part time flexible or T-6 (permanent sub), marking boxes to help those who might assist you on your route on heavy days or if you had to leave for a personal appointment, etc. Customers respected us, relied on us, and we enjoyed the same public image as paramedics, policemen and firemen.
Not so any more. Service is getting worse as carriers such as myself are retiring, myself in 10 working days. Management takes forever to fill a position, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see my position left open for months, or not filled period. It’s all about “savings” that management claims and then gives themselves “performance bonuses” at years’ end. It’s nothing more than skimming and embezzling as far as I’m concerned. Management plays with computers and idiotic numbers all day, and refuse to acknowledge that in a job that is labor centered, dependent on traffic, weather, vehicles breaking down, etc., that an accurate estimate of our running time is impossible. Sadly many offices have crooked or inept union representatives who do nothing to keep management from bullying and threatening carriers for not making the estimates. Give the union boss a cushy route, have him or her over for a cook out and beer, and otherwise kiss ass and management gets a free pass.
My branch doesn’t do that, but we had one past NALC president who was best personal friends with the maniacal supervisor, and as long as he had a short route and auxiliary assistance among other favors I don’t even want to think about, he was good. Why didn’t we boot his ass out? Simple. It’s very very hard to get anybody interested in being an NALC officer any more. I was steward and/or branch president 17 years of my career, and I fought like a wildcat for my people.
So don’t let this scanner bullshit fool you. It’s only a harassment tool, will do nothing to stop misdeliveries, and is just another waste of millions that need to put toward replacing the embarrassing crumbling LLV fleet, which I wouldn’t wish on a demolition derby. New toys? Fine. A safe fleet? Who cares about those worthless carriers? If management isn’t directly involved, it doesn’t give a shit, and that includes the customer.
To bad the battery doesn’t last long in them.