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2000 Highlights
Letter from
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2000 Year
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Delivering
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2000 Annual Report
- page 8 of 70
Expanding our Information
Platform
We're on the cutting
edge of technology.
Our growing Information Platform is linking the
systems we use to process and deliver the mail, spurring on the
electronic exchange of information with our customers, among postal
facilities and within postal operations.
State-of-the-art automation is allowing us to sort large envelopes,
catalogs, newspapers and magazines with breakthrough efficiency.
The results are increased productivity and reduced labor costs that
are helping keep the mail affordable by lowering the cost of doing
business. in July 2001, we'll deploy new speed-reading flat sorters
that are expected to increase productivity by at least 12 percent
and throughput by at least 20 percent and reduce staff needed to
support the equipment by about 22 percent.
A cornerstone initiative currently underway will extend the Information
Platform to local post offices, too. Already our delivery unit computers
are being upgraded with new Delivery Operations Information
System (DOIS) software that will enable us to improve delivery performance
(specifically time-of-day delivery). In the end, we'll do an even
better job of meeting our customer's needs and expectations with
improved consistency and timeliness of delivery, increased productivity
and decreased costs that help keep the mail affordable. It's happening
now.
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