# Presentation: 946590

## FSS – Northern VA Status

**FSS – Northern VA Status**
**Delivery Results**

**PCC Workshop-in-a-Box**
**Module 3**

**Notes:**
As I stated earlier—a pre-production FSS system has been operational in Northern VA since December 2007.  The FSS is located at the Dulles Processing and Distribution Center and supports 7 delivery units and 10 zones.

In the next few slides I will provide a status of the program and initial results of the pre-production FSS operations.

## Preproduction FSS – Dulles VA

**Notes:**

This photo is a top view of the FSS in Dulles.  It covers about 30,000 square feet that includes the machine, support and mail staging areas.  The FSS was installed in September 2007 and started live operations on December 6, 2007.  

The machine is currently starting operations about 1:00 pm daily and runs until 6:00 am.  This machine will remain operational until the 3rd machine in Dulles is installed and then it will be removed and the 4th production FSS for Dulles will be put in its place.

## Bellview Branch
Burke Branch
Culpepper Post Office
Engleside Branch
Fairfax Post Office
McLean Post Office
Reston Branch
Reston Annex
Sterling Post Office
Falls Church Post Office

**Burke Branch**
**Culpepper Post Office**
**Engleside Branch**
**Fairfax Post Office**
**McLean Post Office**
**Reston Branch**
**Reston Annex**
**Sterling Post Office**
**Falls Church Post Office**

**Northern VA Zones on FSS**

**Notes:**
This is the list of delivery units/zones that the Dulles FSS is sequencing flat mail for in Northern VA.

## DPS Flats – Fairfax VA

**Notes:**
If you recall earlier I shared a picture of the DPS letters that are staged by the back door of a delivery unit– this is what it now looks like.  In addition to the letters, flats are staged in the CASTRs filled with street trays of sequenced flats.

This photo was taken in August at the Fairfax Main Post Office.  Think back to the picture of the delivery case that was full of letters and flats and now we’ll look at today’s environment once we sequence the letters and flats and remove them from the manual sequencing process and the letter case.

## Fairfax – FSS Route

**Notes:**
This a letter carriers case once the letter and flat volume has been sequenced using automation and is mail is now staged away from the individual manual casing operation– at the back door.
In this particular case—the overall casing equipment has been reduced by 1/3, or one wing removed.

## Fairfax – FSS Route

**Notes:**
A step further– the actual casing equipment has been downsized for some routes due to the reduction in manual workload.

This also takes us back to the point made earlier regarding the foot-print requirements and delivery real-estate opportunities.

In this scenario, no longer is 120 sq feet of operational space required to support an individual route.

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