The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has approved the Flats Sequencing System, a program that will automatically sort flats: catalogs, magazines and large envelope mailing pieces and circulars.
Letter carriers must currently sort and sequence those pieces by hand at post offices before going on their rounds.
The FSS equipment is designed to sequence flat mail at a rate of approximately 16,500 pieces per hour. Scheduled to operate 17 hours per day, each machine will be able to sequence 280,500 pieces per day to more than 125,000 delivery addresses.
The USPS will launch the first phase of this with 100 FSS machines at 33 postal facilities in the summer of 2008.
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