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Systems at Work

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Each day the United States Postal Service processes hundreds of millions of pieces of mail and delivers to over 150 million addresses. At the center of this bustling postal network are more than a hundred Processing and Distribution Centers spread across the United States. Follow these letters, catalogs, magazines, and parcels as they make their way through the Postal delivery network. See the giant screen exhibit in person at the National Postal Museum in Washington DC! Visit the entire Smithsonian online exhibit: http://npm.si.edu/systemsatwork ...more
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hundreds of millions of mail pieces every day

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The Postal Service delivers almost half the world's mail

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through a network of thousands of post offices.

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Processing and Distribution Centers around the nation.

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The Postal Service separates mail into three categories

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letters, flats, and packages.

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Processing letters begins with culling

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Letters then enter the Advanced Facer-Canceller System.

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The letters are then transferred

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Postal workers feed the letters

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This machine sorts letters into "delivery point sequence,"

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After letters are sorted

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Large bundles of flats must be weighed and verified

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The flats travel along a conveyor system to a feeder

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A high-speed camera captures images of flats

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A computer interprets the scanned addresses

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Sorted flats are then transferred to trays

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The Automated Package Processing System

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As the packages enter the scanning and imaging tunnel

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It determines the package dimensions...

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updating the package's tracking information.

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drivers deliver the sorted mail

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postal workers separate it for pickup.

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Carriers gather the sorted letters, flats, and packages

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Mail delivery connects people and businesses

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Systems at Work
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2014Jun 5
Each day the United States Postal Service processes hundreds of millions of pieces of mail and delivers to over 150 million addresses. At the center of this bustling postal network are more than a hundred Processing and Distribution Centers spread across the United States. Follow these letters, catalogs, magazines, and parcels as they make their way through the Postal delivery network. See the giant screen exhibit in person at the National Postal Museum in Washington DC! Visit the entire Smithsonian online exhibit: http://npm.si.edu/systemsatwork

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