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Last week the Postal Service responded to an information request by the Postal Regulatory Commission concerning the new Optimized Collections initiative. The response sheds a bit more light on the OC plan, but not much, and not much more than was discussed in this post from a couple of weeks ago.
Under the current system, mail is transported early each morning from processing centers to 31,000 post offices, where it’s distributed to PO Boxes and sent out for delivery by letter carriers. In the evening, the process is reversed — the outgoing mail is collected from post offices and transported back to the processing centers.