USPS awards $93 million contract for construction of mail processing, maintenance facilities in Portland Oregon (Sept. Work is progressing on schedule and will be complete March 2018. USPS awarded the project 9/19/16 and The Korte Company started construction 9/26/16 to accommodate the aggressive 18-month completion schedule. If the address is incorrect or incomplete, then it will cause problems with delivery.
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Each facility routes the package to the next facility based on the address and ZIP code on the package. As your package moves, it must go through several sorting facilities. The building consists of a Workroom, which houses fixed mechanization equipment and postal automation equipment and a Mail Platform with a total of 92 dock positions.Īlso included in the overall scope of work is a 29,000 square foot Vehicle Maintenance Facility (VMF) with 15 service bays, 2 body shops and a full-service wash bay. An incorrect or incomplete address can cause your package to get stuck in transit. The distribution facility features areas specified for a BMEU (Business Mail Entry Unit) and USPIS (United States Postal Inspection Services). The 818,000 square foot project is situated on a 47-acre site with three entrances onto the property and includes a 788,845 square foot Processing and Distribution Center with Administration, Maintenance and Employee Support areas. Work on schedule for $93 Million USPS Distribution Center, VMF in Portland, Oregon It should be able to process 30,000 packages an hour compared to compared to 5,000 packages an hour by other machines, according to a project engineer. It is called the Enhanced Package Processing System (EPPS). What will make this new facility noteworthy of national attention is a massive package-sorting machine that Cogan says will take eight months to install. It is unbelievably large, said Joseph Cogan, president of American Postal Workers Union Local 128. Only the New Jersey International Mail Processing Facility has a larger work room, according to the engineer who oversaw the Portland facility. The new plant, near Portland International Airport, has the second largest work room of any USPS plant - big enough, the engineers say, to hold two Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, 12 soccer fields or 48 Boeing 737-800s. What she will be formally opening will be one of the largest mail-processing plants the United States Postal Service has created in an era of declining letter volume. Brennan is likely to head to Oregon for an unusual dedication. Sometime later this year, Postmaster General Megan J.
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