Consumer Reporter Marlo Brawer continues our series of Y2K reports and tells us the Postal Service is pretty confident everything will run smoothly come January first. The Postal Service has been testing and replacing computer hardware and software for more than five years to get ready for this coming January first. It believes it stamped out all potential problems across the country.
Computers control the entire process.
If they crash come January first, stamps would have to be cancelled by hand and workers would also have to manually bar code it and sort it. The postal service assures neither rain, nor sleet nor snow, nor Y2K will keep important letters or packages from making it to their final destination. Most meters in businesses print two-digit years on the mail and they are acceptable to the postal service. The postal service is however working with meters manufacturers to reset meters to print the year in four digits.