1. ® Flats Symposium 2008 USPS Engineering - Future Technology National Postal Forum ® Walt O’Tormey Vice President, Engineering USPS National Postal Forum 2008

2. Engineering Solutions  Bulk Flats Processing  Flats Postal Address Redirection System

3. Bulk Flats Processing (BFP) BULK FLATS PROCESSING & EQUIPMENT HAVE EVOLVED TOGETHER ManualMechanized

4. THE MAILING COMMUNITY & USPS ARE EXPLORING FUTURE BULK FLATS PROCESSING Bulk Flats Processing  MTAC formed two subcommittees to review flat mail preparation MTAC 96 – Adopt “Auto-Ready” Pallets MTAC 115 – In Process “Auto-Ready” Pallet

5. AUTOMATED BFP - Low Footprint Auto-Ready: 1 BFP and 1 SAMP Serves 2 FSS SAMP: 1410 sq ft BFP 1125 sq ft MANUAL MECHANIZED

6. MULTI-ZONE BFP IN DEVELOPMENT De-palletize bundles Bundle Buffer/Sort Cut Straps Load ACTs Stack ACTs Make Dollies

7. FLATS PARS Flats Postal Address Redirection System

8. PARS for Flats Postal Address Redirection System for Flat Shaped Mail  Corrects Addresses Not Current  Corrects to the Finest Depth of Sort AFSM Machines Will  Intercept  Process Return to Sender  Label and Print Current Address FSS Will Intercept

9.  17% of population moves  Resulting in 45 million change of address requests  5-6 billion undeliverable-as-addressed mailpieces Undeliverable-as-addressed (UAA) mail processing. Every year… Undelivered-As-Addressed

10. Forwarding Prior to FPARS NY LA MIAMI Recipient moved!

11. NY LA MIAMI Recipient moved, intercept & label FPARS Interception Solution

12. FPARS Schedule  Prototype Test Boston – February 08  FPARS Contract Award – Tentative, Fall 08  Field Test – Next Year

13. United States Postal Service - Engineering  Engineering Focus –  Provide Customer Benefits  Reduce Cycle Time – Service  Control Total Process Costs  Increase the Value of the Mail