The final post in a series of technologies which help a modern day book author. The USPS has been a big friend when it comes to shipping hard copies of books.
Media mail rates for cross-country shipment of boxes of books is unbelievable value as low as 75c a copy. For single copies, the Priority mail package at $ 5 with 2 day delivery with tracking works well.
The USPS has an impressive range of technologies. It is the world leader in optical character recognition technology with machines reading nearly 98 percent of all hand-addressed letter mail and 99.5 percent of machine-printed mail. It has the largest gantry robotic fleet in the world using 174 robotics systems to move 314,000 mail trays per day. See more technology in the video below.
More on the retail side, the self-service kiosks they have bought from Wincor-Nixdorf are fairly versatile. On demand stamps, shipping labels, scale to weigh packages, renewal of PO Boxes – plenty of transactions you do not need to stand in line for.
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