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Mail sorting. Mail sorting refers to the methods by which postal systems determine how and where to route mail for delivery. Once accomplished by hand, mail sorting is now largely automated through the aid of specialized machines. The first widely adopted mail sorting machine was the Transorma, first made operational in Rotterdam in 1930.
A sectional center facility ( SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes. A sectional center facility routes mail between local post offices, sorting and delivery centers (SDCs), to and from network ...
The Coding Accuracy Support System ( CASS) enables the United States Postal Service (USPS) to evaluate the accuracy of software that corrects and matches street addresses. CASS certification is offered to all mailers, service bureaus, and software vendors that would like the USPS to evaluate the quality of their address-matching software and ...
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Delivery Bar Code Sorter. A Delivery Bar Code Sorter ( DBCS) is a mail sorting machine used primarily by the United States Postal Service. Introduced in 1990, these machines sort letters at a rate of approximately 36,000 pieces per hour, [1] with a 99% accuracy rate. A computer scans the addresses of the mail, and sorts it to one of up to 286 ...
March 30, 2024 at 8:00 AM. The U.S. Post Office in Pasco is among the first in the nation to get a high tech update through the 10-year Delivering for America plan. It’s an update that officials ...
A sorting office or processing and distribution center (P&DC; name used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) [1]) is any location where postal operators bring mail after collection for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, [2] which may be a direct delivery or sent onwards to another regional or local sorting office, or to ...
After consolidating sorting work into the P&DCs, the USPS in August 2022 initiated a pilot program to consolidate delivery work into Sorting and Delivery Centers (S&DCs). As of 2022, the USPS was still running "delivery units" out of most of its post offices, meaning that most carrier routes were based at post offices and there were dozens of ...