Snail mail. You may not think much of it these days, but the mail doesn’t stop and it never has. Every type of mail from postcards and letters to large envelopes and packages of all sizes mov… ...

Mail-sorting machines process paper mail at distribution centers, speeding delivery and distribution. Each mail-sorting machine can sort 36,000 pieces of paper mail per hour.

Big Number. 711. That’s the number of mail sorting machines that have recently been removed nationwide, USPS reported in a previous court filing, marking the highest number of machines that have ...

Photos obtained by CNN are beginning to show where some of the 671 mail sorting machines the United States Postal Service has planned to remove have ended up.

At least six sorting machines at the Portland facility alone have already been taken offline in the past month, according to Joe Cogan, the head of Portland's postal union. Their fate remains unclear.

The U.S. Postal Service has found initial success as it consolidates mail and package sorting operations into centralized facilities, though it is failing to deliver on workplace improvements that ...

One of the ongoing challenges of the Post Office Department over the course of the twentieth century was sorting an ever-increasing mail volume. The Department took a step towards solving this problem ...