USPS Awards Siemens Contract to Expand Automated Mail Redirection Program to All Facilities.ARLINGTON, Texas Arlington is a city in Tarrant County, Texas (USA) within the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. According to a U.S Census Bureau release, as of July 1, 2006 Arlington has an estimated population of 367,197. -- The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval has awarded Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems Inc.'s Postal Automation division a $560 million contract to provide additional software, equipment and services to expand the Postal Automated Redirection System (PARS) to all mail sorting centers across the country over the next 28 months. The PARS software and special mail processing equipment will be installed at 233 additional processing centers. The contract also includes logistics support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . The contract follows the PARS Phase 1 contract awarded in 2002. During the first phase, the complex program was deployed and proven at 50 mail processing centers, 180 forwarding centers and 16 remote mail encoding centers. "The PARS solution is already helping the USPS (1) (Uninterruptible Switching Power Supply) A power supply for a computer that contains its own battery and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) circuitry. See power supply and UPS. in their mission to improve service and reduce operating cost at 50 processing centers. In this second phase, Siemens will further improve the system's performance and deploy the system nationwide, so the USPS can achieve the full benefit of the program," commented Heribert Stumpf, Executive Vice President of Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems in Arlington, Texas. The USPS forwards over four billion letters each year. PARS contributes to improved USPS operations by automating change-of-address forms processing, recognizing mail that needs to be forwarded the first time it runs on USPS mail processing equipment, and then sending that mail through a special redirection process. The advantage to consumers is that mail forwarded by PARS arrives at their new address days faster than before. "PARS is one of the most sophisticated postal system postal system System that allows persons to send letters, parcels, or packages to addressees in the same country or abroad. Postal systems are usually government-run and paid for by a combination of user charges and government subsidies. solutions in the world. We are very proud that the Postal Service has partnered with Siemens again to continue the USPS leadership in mail processing technology implementation," said Gert Seidel sei·del n. A beer mug. [German, from Middle High German s  del, from Latin situla, bucket.]Noun 1. , Siemens' Vice President leading the PARS effort. The PARS program consists of seven major projects and requires modification of almost every letter mail processing machine in the USPS fleet. Phase 2 alone represents the largest single contract ever awarded to Siemens' Postal Automation division. About Siemens Siemens Logistics and Assembly Systems Inc. (Siemens L&A) is one of Siemens' operating companies in the United States. With its headquarters in Grand Rapids Grand Rapids, city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, , Mich., Siemens L&A is a leading supplier of logistics and factory automation systems. As a systems integrator, Siemens L&A supplies a full range of products and services, from individual products and systems to complete turnkey facilities as a general contractor. It consists of four business units: Distribution and Industry, Postal Automation, Airport Logistics and Electronics Assembly. The Siemens L&A Group worldwide has approximately 10,000 employees and a business volume of around $2.8 billion. For more information: www.usa.siemens.com/logisticsassembly. Siemens AG (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SI) is one of the largest global electronics and engineering companies with reported worldwide sales of $91.3 billion in fiscal 2004. Founded more than 150 years ago, the company is a leader in the areas of Automation and Control, Information and Communications, Lighting, Medical, Power and Transportation. With its U.S. corporate headquarters in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Siemens in the USA has sales of $16.6 billion and employs 70,000 people throughout all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Eleven of Siemens' worldwide businesses are based in the United States. With its global headquarters in Munich, Siemens AG and its subsidiaries employ 430,000 people in 192 countries. For more information on Siemens in the United States: www.usa.siemens.com |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion