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 ...

Every week 2 million packages enter and exit Amazon’s sorting facility in Otay Mesa. Within hours, they’re scanned, sorted by ZIP code, routed for delivery and loaded onto pallets where they’ll be ...

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 ...

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 ...