Internal USPS planning documents obtained by CNN indicate nearly 95% of the mail sorting machines that had been set for removal during the last few months were already scheduled to be taken out ...

Photos obtained by CNN are beginning to show where some of the 671 mail sorting machines the United States Postal Service has planned to remove have ended up.

While some early mechanical mail sorting equipment was realized and tested in the 1920s, the first real sorting machine was the Transorma, named so for ‘TRANsport and SORting’ plus the last ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. ... The US Postal Service removed 711 mail-sorting machines this year, according to testimony and documents submitted to a New York federal court.

Mail-sorting machines process paper mail at distribution centers, speeding delivery and distribution. Each mail-sorting machine can sort 36,000 pieces of paper mail per hour.

The potential effectiveness of an order issued Sunday to stop the removal of United States Postal Service sorting machines is now in question. Internal USPS planning documents obtained by CNN ...