USPS expands Surface Visibility mobile scanner programme
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has expanded its Surface Visibility (SV) programme by rolling out 5,000 mobile cellular scanners to postal vehicle service drivers. The scanners use GPS and geo-fencing to track mail movement — including arrivals and departures — and to simplify drops and pickups at detached mail units, mailer sites and freight houses.
The cellular scanners are replacing the devices currently being used by postal vehicle service drivers, which include Intelligent Mail Devices (IMDs) and Mobile Delivery Devices (MDDs).
According to a notice posted yesterday (26 October) by USPS, the SV programme also has been expanded to an additional 113 sites with cellular and Wi-Fi scanners and to 58 peak season annexes to provide those locations with flexible scanning technology that uses the cellular network to close existing visibility gaps.
The scanners are from Honeywell.
USPS first announced that it was testing the new SV scanners in September.