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Postal Service: Automation Is Taking Longer and Producing Less Than Expected

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Feb. 22, 1995
Report No. GGD-95-89BR
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Summary:

The U.S. Postal Service must overcome difficult, if not insurmountable, obstacles if it is to successfully introduce optical scanning into its operations by 1998. Barcoding of letter mail and automatic sorting of letters to homes and businesses, known as "delivery point sequencing," has proven more difficult than the Postal Service expected and lags behind schedule. The savings from automation continue to be small compared to overall labor costs and more difficult to achieve than the Postal Service anticipated.

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