The U.S. Postal Service has been dismantling letter sorting machines, and some say the lost capacity could hamper mail-in voting. But some workers say the machines are obsolete and won't be missed.

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (WMTW) - Postal workers have reassembled one of the two high-speed letter sorting machines that were ordered dismantled over the summer, according to our media partner, WMTW News 8.

Following a national uproar over the removal of postal equipment and reductions of retail service hours and worker overtime, the Trump Administration’s new postmaster general announced Tuesday that he ...

A short silent film showing the Multi-Position Letter Sorting Machine (MPLSM). MPLSM operators used 20-key keyboards to type in two or three numbers from the ZIP code, so the machine could then sort ...

This summer the American Postal Workers Union filed a grievance against the U.S. Postal Service over the agency’s plans to decommission 671 mail-sorting machines at facilities across the country.

Louis DeJoy testified that he would not return the now off-line letter sorting machines, but we found at least one is back online at the Tacoma Mail Processing and Distribution Center. A USPS ...

When we last left this subject, I told you all about Transorma, the first letter-sorting machine in semi-wide use. But before and since Transorma, machines have come about to perform various tasks on ...

TikTok is a great place to see how things work behind the scenes. One United States Postal Service (USPS) worker showed how the post office sorts through letters. He also shared a public service ...

It didn’t take too long for hand-canceling to get out of hand. The first cancelling machine, created in 1875, made fairly quick work of that. The thing was hand-fed, hand-cranked, and only worked on ...

Being a postal service annuitant, I feel I have legitimate input. Remembering back to orientation, I was informed the No. 1 rule to abide was "Do not delay the mail" punishable with immediate ...