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.

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 ...

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