By day's end, the center expected to have handled more than 8.7 million cards, letters and packages Watch video
HAMILTON -- The United State Postal Service's Hamilton processing and distribution center braced for an onslaught of mail Monday, the agency's busiest day of the year.
By day's end, the center expected to have handled more than 8.7 million cards, letters and packages.
The busiest delivery day for cards and letters is Wednesday, followed by packages on Thursday.
Here's a look at some of the major equipment inside the 385,000-square-foot plant:
The Automated Parcel Bundle Sorter sorts bundles of letters, packages and parcels weighing up to 20 pounds:
- It sorts 6,200 pieces per hour
- Average number of pieces sorted per day is 60,000
- Peak holiday volume sorted per day is 108,000
The Advanced Facer Cancelling System is a high-speed machine capable of processing 25,000 pieces of mail per hour.
- Average night's volume is 300,000
- Peak holiday volume goes from 0.9 to 1.5 million pieces per day
The Delivery Barcode Sorter is a multi-level, high-speed barcode sorter that sorts mail.
- It sorts about 32,000 pieces per hour
- Average outgoing volumes per day is 500,000
- Holiday outgoing volumes per day is 1 million
- Average daily volume that is put in the delivery sequence of carriers is 2.2 million
- Holiday peak volume that is put in the delivery sequence of carriers is 4.3 million
The Flat Sequencing System automatically sorts flat-sized mail at high speeds:
- It sorts about 20,000 pieces per hour
- Average daily volume is 800,000
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