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Wardak Prison: Inadequate Department of State Oversight and Contractor Non-Compliance Have Increased Safety and Health Risks and Resulted in Wasted U.S. Funds
Regional Agriculture Development Program: Additional Evaluations and Assessments Could Improve the Performance and Sustainability of USAID/Afghanistan's $301 Million Program
Our objective was to evaluate Flats Sequencing System (FSS) performance in the Capital Metro Area.In October 2008, the U.S. Postal Service began nationwide deployment of 100 FSS machines to sort flat-shaped mail (flats) such as large envelopes, newspapers, catalogs, and magazines into letter carrier delivery order.The Postal Service completed FSS deployment in August 2011, with a projected per machine throughput of 16,500 pieces per hour and 280,500 pieces per day. The Postal Service also established an average daily runtime goal of 17 hours per machine. Since the initial deployment of FSS machines began in 2008, flats mail volume has declined by almost 10.3 billion pieces, or about 46 percent.Because of the decline in flats mail volume, management in 2010 reduced the nationwide FSS projected per machine throughput goal to 11,500 pieces per hour and 195,500 pieces per day, for an overall reduction of about 30 percent per FSS machine.The Capital Metro Area has a total of 18 FSS machines at nine mail processing facilities. This is the first in a series of FSS area audit reports.
The objective was to assess the effectiveness of the Terminal Handling Services (THS) the U.S. Postal Service uses to sort and transport mail in the Southern Area. THS suppliers load mail into FedEx air containers and deliver them to FedEx for transportation across the nation. They also transport incoming FedEx air containers to THS facilities and load mail from the containers into mail transport equipment (MTE) containers for Postal Service pick-up and delivery to designated mail processing facilities.