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 ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The blue lights are flashing, and that means the sort is going to start late. The blue lights don't go on often. They flash only when lightning is detected within three miles of the ...

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 ...

Every night, United Parcel Service Inc. processes an average of 600,000 packages through its massive Worldport hub in Louisville, Ky. One hundred aircraft fly in and out of the 4 million-square-foot ...

A package exploded at a FedEx distribution center northeast of San Antonio shortly after midnight Tuesday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the package, which was sent from Austin to be sorted ...

Admit it. As soon as you click “complete order” for that online purchase, you want that item delivered sooner than now. How it gets there has become more complicated as shoppers shunned malls and ...

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 ...

Engineers at Intralox L.C.C, Harahan, La., used electric actuators to improve the speed and precision of a palletizing unit that takes variously sized products from a conveyor, and lines them up and ...