Recently Miami-Dade County PCC members toured FSS operations at the South Florida L&DC in Opa-locka. Miami Plant Manager Rick Suarez, FSS Coordinator Orlando De La Osa, and Logistics and Distribution Specialist Eddy Ares provided information on FSS processing to an attentive audience. Photo: Rose M. CastroAutomation revolutionized the way the Postal Service processed letter mail. Delivery Point Sequencing took it one step further — placing letter mail in the order of delivery. That same kind of technology is being applied to processing flats — large envelopes, magazines, catalogs and circulars.
Recently, Miami-Dade County PCC members toured FSS operations at the South Florida L&DC in Opa-locka.
The FSS Program allows the Postal Service to utilize sophisticated equipment to sort flat mail for letter carriers, who currently must manually sequence this mail before leaving the office on their routes. Using technology to sort flat mail into the order of delivery for letter carriers increases efficiency in the office and allow carriers to begin delivering to their customers earlier in the day.
The FSS is a self-contained, integrated system comprised of several components, including automatic high-speed feeders, a dolly induction system, carousel sorter tray stating, integrated tray converters, and a stand-alone mail prep subsystem. At the end of the first sortation, an automatic sweep occurs where all trays are returned to the feed area in correct order for the second sortation. At the end of the processing run, mail automatically is swept, placed into street trays and onto mail transport equipment for dispatch.
It takes a team of eight mail handlers and two clerks to operate one FSS machine. Two clerks feed the machine, one mail handler “grooms” the mail from first to second pass, another mail handler loads and unloads dollies of prepped flats into FSS, and six mail handlers prep flats into dollies for induction into FSS.
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