**FPI and Ready-Built Keep U.S. Postal Service on the Move**

**in America's Neighborhoods**

Many months ago, Ready-Built Inc., a major provider of rebuilt engines
and transmissions, confronted the challenge of how to handle business
growth while maintaining customer service and keeping costs in line.
Specifically, this Montgomery, Ala., company was looking for an
innovative way to expand its work with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS),
but not go through the expense and difficulties associated with new
production and warehouse facilities.

Ready-Built found an outstanding solution through a unique
source---Federal Prison Industries (FPI) and its nationwide network of
leading-edge production and distribution facilities. FPI's Fleet
Management & Vehicular Components Business Group is the U.S.
government's number-one remanufacturer of vehicle and vehicular
components.

**FPI Chosen for Long-Term Partnership**

Early this year, Ready-Built entered into a long-term partnership with
FPI to remanufacture (industry terminology for "rebuild") and distribute
transmissions and engines for U.S. Postal Service Long-Life Vehicles.
These vehicles, or LLVs, are the small white vans that have plied
America's neighborhoods for decades, picking up and delivering mail.

In February, Ready-Built installed its LLV transmission remanufacturing
line in FPI's Beaumont, Texas, factory, an ISO 9000:2001 production
facility. When running at full capacity, this production line, and the
highly trained, dedicated inmate workers at Beaumont, can turn out
thousands of rebuilt, like-new, transmissions a month. Beginning in late
spring, Ready-Built will begin to transition its engine remanufacting
line to Beaumont.

While labor-intense, remanufacturing transmissions and engines is far
more cost-effective and environmentally sound than buying new vehicle
components. All parts are either retooled to original manufacturer
specifications or replaced, and components are completely reassembled
and tested to function as if they just rolled off the production line.

Another FPI facility in Victorville, Calif., is already distributing
rebuilt LLV components to USPS parts depots in the western U.S. As the
year progresses, FPI facilities in other areas of the country will
become distribution warehouses for these remanufactured components.

**A "Win-Win" Solution**

"This is a win-win solution all around," comments Robert Jones,
President of Ready-Built. Jones says that through his company's
partnership with FPI, Ready-Built can greatly expand its business with
the USPS and other customers while avoiding the cost and time commitment
of establishing a new plant and warehouses. Very importantly, all
Ready-Built employees who worked on LLV engine and transmission lines
have been reassigned to new product lines.

Through FPI's nationwide production and distribution network, the USPS
receives the same high-quality rebuilt engine components at the same
cost, but in 48 hours rather than the previous 72. "From an output,
logistics and distribution point of view, this partnership is making us
a more efficient company," Jones adds.

The benefits for FPI and inmate workers are equally important. FPI can
offer advanced skill-building and productive employment to more inmate
workers, who are being trained by Ready-Built in its production,
inspection and quality assurance methods. With training received through
FPI and Ready-Built, inmate workers are being ASE (Automotive Service
Excellence) certified, making them highly employable after completion of
their sentences.

**Shared Focus on Quality, Cost, Service, Innovation**

Due to a shared focus on quality, cost, service and innovation,
Ready-Built and FPI have highly compatible business philosophies. With
its highly trained technicians, FPI is noted for the quality and
reliability of its work, cost-effectiveness and surge capacity to meet
demanding production and delivery schedules for its government and
private-sector customers.

Ready-Built is one of only three certified suppliers of remanufactured
transmissions and engines for U.S. Postal Service LLVs. The company has
forged a reputation for innovation, developing methods to rebuild
engines that reduce fuel costs and emissions, and transmissions with
much longer life spans.

Jones says that his vehicle parts contacts in the USPS have been
"gratified" to hear that Ready-Built's partnership with FPI is providing
more inmates with valuable work experience, which will give them the
opportunity for productive futures on leaving the federal prison system.

Through this innovative partnership agreement, Ready-Built and FPI's
Fleet Business Group are keeping LLVs, the workhorses of the USPS, on
the move through America's neighborhoods.

# Fleet Management & Vehicular Components Business Group

# *"Your Partner in Mission Readiness"*

FPI's Fleet Management & Vehicular Components Business Group also has
been providing the highest quality service to the Department of Defense,
earning the trust of the American defense establishment. Today, American
military tactical vehicles and remanufactured vehicular components are
performing missions around the world. FPI remanufactured generator sets
are on air bases, and rebuilt forklifts are loading weapons and
equipment onto our nation\'s naval fleets. FPI also rebuilds most common
starters, alternators, and regulators used on military trucks, tanks and
other military vehicles.

Highly trained technical specialists at FPI's nationwide facilities can
take vehicles and vehicular components, engines, electrical equipment,
forklifts, complete vehicle platforms or any other equipment that can be
rebuilt or remanufactured, and return them in like-new condition at a
fraction of the replacement cost.

FPI operates facilities throughout the country, comprising just under a
million square feet of factory and warehouse space. The size of our
operations, combined with over 3,000 skilled workers means that no job
is too big or too small.

# FPI's Fleet Management & Vehicular Components Business Group has developed the logistics to receive and distribute equipment at sites around the world, enabling military groups and the Department of Defense to drop off damaged vehicle components and pick up like-new items. Unserviceable equipment is sent to FPI facilities for remanufacture and returned to a distribution pool at each site, creating a steady stream of components ready for immediate operation. FPI\'s web-based tracking system enables military groups to monitor equipment status, including warranty dates and claim information.

Most FPI facilities are ISO 9000:2001 certified, employing a workforce
with a large number of ASE certified technicians and highly trained
mechanics. All work is fully guaranteed and warranted and all parts meet
OEM standards.