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The Obama administration had them remove a massive amount of sorting machines too. Those are letter sorting machines. Letter volume is down to literally the lo
by shiftpgdn 5y ago
The Obama administration had them remove a massive amount of sorting machines too. Those are letter sorting machines. Letter volume is down to literally the lowest it had ever been. There is a reason they are getting ripped out.
- dsr_ 5y agoThe letter sorting machines are faster and cheaper than manually sorting the same letters... and they were already paid for. You are correct that there is a reason that they are being ripped out, but it's not because letter volume is down.
- shiftpgdn 5y agoLetter volume is down and the machines need to be replaced with machines that can handle parcels. How are they supposed to replace them!?
- makomk 5y agoManually sorting letters isn't actually the alternative here - what the US Postal Service was moving towards under DeJoy (and probably before him too) was sorting the same letters using the same kind of automatic machines, but a smaller number of them reconfigured to sort into a larger number of different piles using parts from the scrapped machines. This reduces overall capacity, but should be more efficient so long as they don't actually need the extra capacity.