United States Postal Service

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United StatesPostal Service

• Gainesville General Mail Facility
• 4600 SW 34th STGainesville, FL 32608

Contact Irvin Cheng [phone]
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Key Facts about USPS

• USPS delivers to every household and business in
  the United States. Every American has access to
  their products and services and pays the same
  postage rate for First-Class Mail service
  regardless of geographic location.
• USPS
• Delivers 212 billion pieces of mail to over 144
  million homes, businesses and Post Office boxes
  in virtually every state, city, and town in the
  country, including Puerto Rico, Guam, the
  American Virgin Islands and American Samoa.
• Handles more than 44 of the world's card and
  letter mail volume delivering more mail to more
  addresses and to a larger geographic area than
  any other postal service in the world.

All Key Facts Information is from
http//www.usps.com/communications/organization/po
stalfacts.htm
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Key Facts (continued)

• Serves over 7.5 million customers daily at more
  than 37,000 Post Offices. And 1,450 of their
  Post Offices now stay open later.
• Provide stamps at
• More than 27,800 vending machines
• Nearly 25,400 commercial retail outlets
• Nearly 15,300 banking and credit union ATMs
• 2,500 Automated Postal Centers
• Have an annual operating revenue of nearly 70
  billion.
• Employ more than 700,000 career employees, who
  communicate with each other on the world's
  largest intranet.
• Pay more than 2 billion in salaries and benefits
  every 2 weeks.

All Key Facts Information is from
http//www.usps.com/communications/organization/po
stalfacts.htm
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Gainesville General Mail Facility

• Receives all incoming and outgoing mail for
  Gainesville and many of the surrounding areas
• Cancels stamps, sorts, verifies correct postage

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Problem Flat MailCanceling Stamps

• Flat mail mixed with regular envelopes comes up
  conveyor belt
• Inefficiency
• Worker picks-up flat mail and sorts into metered
  or stamped mail
• Some stamped mail gets cancelled by hand
• Other mail get cancelled by machine

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Problem Flat MailCanceling Stamps

• Ergonomics
• Worker twists around to place stamped mail and
  metered mail onto shelf
• Worker twists back and forth to place stamped
  mail onto canceling machine
• Worker bends over to get ink to brush onto stamp
  canceler
• Worker bends over to retrieve bucket of mail to
  place onto cart

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Project Members
Billy McCall
Alykhan Gulamali
Colleen Myers
Ashley Williams
Kelly Pearlson