U.S. Postal Service awards Siemens major contract

Siemens announced that it has been awarded a USD109.4 million contract modification from the United States Postal Service (USPS) for additional mail sorting equipment. The scope of the award encompasses an additional 211 Delivery Bar Code Sorter (DBCS 6) machines to expand USPS’ existing fleet of letter sorting equipment. The company will provide installation and associated integrated logistics support services for the new machines in addition to carts used to transport trays of sorted mail. Production and installation of the DBCS 6 order is expected to be completed by Dec.1, 2007.

The DBCS is the most widely deployed mail processing platform for letters within the Postal Service with more than 2000 machines operating nationwide. Almost every letter will pass through these machines several times as it makes its way through the postal network. Need for the additional equipment is driven by the 2 million delivery points, comprising U.S. households and businesses, which the Postal Service will be adding to its service over the next year.

“This was another successful proposal effort that has worked extremely well for the program,” said Lukas Loeffler, Vice President, Postal Automation of Siemens in the U.S. “We look forward to continuing the collaboration with the USPS that has made this program so successful for both organizations.”

Further information about Postal Automation from Siemens I&S under: www.siemens.com/postal-automation

Siemens Postal Automation, a division of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services (I&S) Group, is a global market leader in mail sorting, reading and coding as well as parcel and freight handling solutions. In the U.S., Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. represents the I&S Group within Siemens AG. I&S is the systems and solutions integrator for industrial and infrastructure facilities and global service provider for the plant and projects business covering planning, installation and operation across the entire life cycle. I&S uses its own products, systems and process technologies to enhance productivity and improve the competitiveness of companies in metallurgy, water treatment, pulp and paper, oil and gas, marine engineering, open-cast mining, airport logistics, postal automation, intelligent traffic systems and industrial services. In fiscal 2005, I&S employed a total of 31,700 people worldwide and achieved total sales of EUR 5.390 billion.