The Postal Service has deployed almost 2,500 new package processing units at facilities across the nation, part of an ongoing effort to boost the organization’s shipping business.
The Passive Adaptive Scanning System (PASS) improves tracking at high-volume facilities. An additional 1,600 PASS units are slated to be deployed by mid-October, bringing the total number of units to more than 4,100.
The equipment is receiving strong reviews at facilities such as the West Caldwell, NJ, Post Office. “I’ve been here for 38 years and I never expected this type of technology,” said Mail Processing Clerk Henry Singleton.
When packages arrive at the West Caldwell Post Office, employees use PASS to scan them; customers who are tracking the package at usps.com see the message “Arrival at Unit.” Once the package leaves the facility, customers see “Out for Delivery.”
“I realize that people are relying on me to be accurate,” Singleton said.
The Postal Service’s package volume increases have boosted overall revenues by 11.2 percent this year. USPS plans to adjust some shipping prices to attract more business customers and streamline its mail processing operations, which will allow the organization to invest in new package sorting equipment and other upgrades.
Got similar scanners at our plant. They work IF you hold the package at eye level and move it back and forth until finally it beeps. Do that for 8 hours and you’ll see why they switched to hand scanners while these collect paper dust overhead.
Want to improve package processing???????
And at no cost!!!!!!
Make the print size of the address LARGER.
Carriers are out in the glaring sun or out after dark and spend worthless wasteful time trying to read itty-bitty tiny addresses on packages.
Duh.
We carriers still get 10. % or so misdirected parcels. What a effing joke. Must of been a sweet pay off to whatever management/ procurement hack sold this idea. O where, o where are the pig on these institutional scale scams/payback deals?????
New technology! So what? PO still losing money, why expense big money to buy this new crap? for kick back?
we have one in our station, but only one of the four zip codes that work in our building use it why? it still does not help me put a letter or package in someone’s mailbox. what corporation got all of this gravy and who is related to someone in the post office, it will last until the next smartphone comes out.
I’m glad about the technology, happy for the post offices themselves, individually and the postal employees! This just improves postal customers’s service, like mine. I still use the United States Postal service for important mail. I may use the internet and internet-based webmail, however, I have never in all the period I’ve used these options and to the present, compromised the privacy and security of my mail when using the US Postal service was a better option.
Works just as good as the FSS boondoggle.
Remember that one, you lying USPS mgmt ?