Letter mail got you zoned out?

Keeping up with the growth of nearly two million delivery points a year is a challenge. That’s why Engineering designed delivery bar­code sorters (DBCSs), which organize the mail according to letter carri­ers’ routes, to be easily expandable so they can accommodate more zones and delivery points.

Delivery barcode sorters have reduced manual sorting and operational costs, since carriers can take the delivery point sequenced mail directly to the street. When a DBCS reaches capacity, it can be expanded with a stacker mod­ule that holds 16 stackers. The more stackers on a DBCS, the more zones and delivery points can be sequenced in the same sort run.

Funding for 739 additional units was recently approved, and deployment will begin this May. But mail processing facilities won’t have to wait that long. The Postal Service has already begun deploying 394 stacker modules pur­chased last year.