[FedCom] Re: USPS

[Ken]

Chris & the group:

The mail route carriers have a portable computer type device that they scan 
certain mail pieces with when delivered & also have to scan each maildrop 
box when they pickup the mail (to make sure they haven't missed a box & have 
also complied with the time requirement of NOT picking the mail up earlier 
than the drop pickup time listed).  There's at least a time stamp as well as 
other specific data.  Generally when they get back to the post 
office/delivery office they have to download that information into another 
system.  My guess is that some of the postal areas may now be using real 
time/near real time upload of the information via radio to the post 
office/delivery office.    I'd guess that it's a commercial system they are 
using.

Locally the Springfield BMC still operates on VHF NFM:
164.3875 Repeater (110.9) -- operations net (e.g. machine mechanics 
dispatch).
165.05 Repeater (114.8) --  supervisors, safety, & security net
166.1625 Repeater (114.8) --  transportation net (shuffling trailer at yard 
to appropiate
unload/load doors). (they usually use a computerized dispatch system that is 
on a data display terminal in each of the the yard mules that move the 
trailers around)
172.30 Simplex (no tone) -- transportation net

Ken





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Parris" <chrisparris at monitoringtimes.com>
To: "Discussion of Federal Government Communications" 
<fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] Re: USPS


>I think it's more than likely that they have moved to Nextel. While I don't
> know that all of the USPS truck operations are moving that way (I still 
> hear
> a LOT of postal service operations on the VHF or UHF land mobile bands in
> other areas), the Postal Service truck operations in Portland have 
> definitly
> moved. We'll have to see if we can spot a yellow phone/radio kind of thing
> on one of the driver's belts. ;-)