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The Postal Service has proposed a new rule requiring sender identification of discount-rate mail, which is considered the first step toward removing the anonymity of all mailings. Covered under the new proposal would be first-class mail, periodicals, standard mail or package-services mailing eligible for any discounted postage rate. The new proposed regulations were prompted by the anthrax mailings two years ago this month that killed five people and sickened 13 others. The sender was never caught.

Azure Dynamics Corporation, a leading developer of hybrid electric powertrains for commercial vehicles and United States Postal Service, the world’s leading provider of mailing and delivery services, are pleased to announce the signing of an agreement whereby Azure will test and retrofit two USPS vehicles with Azure’s “Smart Energy Management” hybrid technology.

Azure will develop a prototype gas hybrid electric powertrain for USPS’s carrier route vehicle (CRV) as well as a prototype diesel hybrid electric powertrain for the USPS two-ton step van. USPS operates approximately 140,000 CRV’s and 10,000 step vans.