Volume 2 Number 3
Editorial
Ilze Sella
Thomas DeVaughan
Design
Rebecca Powell
John Potter
Postmaster General and
Chief Executive Officer
Anita Bizzotto
Chief Marketing Officer and
Executive Vice President
Steve Kearney
Vice President,
Pricing and Classification
Mitzi Betman
Acting Vice President,
Public Affairs and Communications
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LETTER SORTERS GET FASTER, SMARTER
USPS ALSO ENHANCING DATA SYSTEM
The Postal Service will postmark letters faster and sort them smarter with the purchase of new technology. The 550 Advanced Facer Canceler System (AFCS) 200 machines will not only process 15 percent more mail per hour than existing sorters, but also reduce the need for downstream processing with their greater number of sorting bins.
 The AFCS 200s are designed to apply barcodes, read the Intelligent Mail barcode and process broader-sized letters up to 5/16 of an inch. They will also be more energy-efficient than the 1980s technology that they will replace. The AFCS 200s will be deployed between May 2010 and July 2011.
The Postal Service also is enhancing its information infrastructure with the purchase of 400 computer systems to replace the existing National Directory Support System and the Integrated Data System. These nationally deployed systems provide critical data used to optimize performance of equipment and provide information to customers, such as mailpiece tracking and Address Change Service.
The Postal Service processes more than 212 billion letters, flats and packages annually. With a delivery network of more than 13,000 automated sorting machines that continues to become more “intelligent,” and a directory of 148 million addresses that continues to grow, the new data system will enable the Postal Service to expand its services and provide its customers with greater value. The computer systems will be deployed next year.
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