The United States postal development data use technology to save the cost

As the daily mail volume of more than 528000000 companies, at present, the United States Postal Service (USPS) is caused by super computing technology and data technology "storm", as a major opportunity, innovation and development "".
Early in 2006, USPS has been in the "data mining" dosomethinpreviouslyunreleased. The USPS program manager Scot Atkins introduction, USPS was a huge customer name and address of the IT information management system, in the "anti fraud (fraud detection)" in the field, it has a good performance.
USPS on a nationwide network of 6100 letters per second. When a letter is scanned at the post office, the relevant data of the letter, including location, delivery routes, weight, volume and other information, through the "postal route network (Postal Routed Network)" super database transfer to USPS, and the database of nearly 4 hundred number according to the comparison, the use of a the algorithm can identify "fraud", and the test results are returned to the processing center (delivery center).
"The series of letters required an average of 50 - 100 ms." Atkins said, if in the process of the "abnormal" - such as the insufficient postage stamps parcel or repeated use of the situation, once detected, the system will the mail interception, again by sorting personnel for their special treatment. These "abnormal response" process will also be real-time recording system. There are "mail fraud" mail, check the service department will be transferred to the USPS for further processing.
Atkins said, because the letter day processing huge amount to several billion dollars a year for USPS, fiscal revenue, brought by the large data management financial savings will reach at least $1 million level.
MYEX min Asia International Express
2013-04-18