SCRANTON – Gary Kausmeyer can’t wait to see what the latest addition to the U.S. Postal Service’s Scranton processing plant can do when push truly comes to shove. In 2020, the Postal Service endured a ...

An employee puts a parcel with the address side up on a conveyor belt so that it can be scanned and sorted. US Post Office just installed a new new state-of-the-art package sorting machine at the ...

PACKAGE TO YOU FASTER. INSIDE THE MANCHESTER POST OFFICE DISTRIBUTION AND PROCESSING CENTER, POSTAL CLERKS ARE LOADING UP TODAY’S PACKAGES TO GO OUT USING A NEW SORTING MACHINE. WELL, IT STARTS RIGHT ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The blue lights are flashing, and that means the sort is going to start late. The blue lights don't go on often. They flash only when lightning is detected within three miles of the ...

Ben Ames has spent 30 years as a journalist since starting out as a reporter for daily newspapers in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He has focused on business and technology reporting since 1999 for ...

They say the system was 100 percent accurate, which opens the door for companies to consider using RFID instead of bar codes for sorting cartons. Siemens Dematic, which has installed more than 10,000 ...

Every night, United Parcel Service Inc. processes an average of 600,000 packages through its massive Worldport hub in Louisville, Ky. One hundred aircraft fly in and out of the 4 million-square-foot ...

Admit it. As soon as you click “complete order” for that online purchase, you want that item delivered sooner than now. How it gets there has become more complicated as shoppers shunned malls and ...

To stand and watch the conveyor belts in FedEx’s sorting facility in Alexandria, Va., is to realize how hopelessly coddled our nation’s packages have become. “This side up!” “Top load only!” “No knife ...