[FedCom] Re: USPS

[J Doe]

Ken, thank you for the detailed information. You ID'd some new
frequencies for me.
Happy listening,
JD

On 10/6/06, Ken <rfinder1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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