To stand and watch the conveyor belts in FedEx’s sorting facility in Alexandria, Va., is to realize how hopelessly coddled our nation’s packages have become. “This side up!” “Top load only!” “No knife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers operate a parallel induction linear sorter in the U.S. Postal Service's processing and distribution center in Dulles, ...

An employee puts a parcel with the address side up on a conveyor belt so that it can be scanned and sorted. US Post Office just installed a new new state-of-the-art package sorting machine at the ...

Online shopping seems like a straightforward process: hunt down the perfect item, trudge through the checkout pipeline and await a package's inevitable arrival. The trip between a warehouse and your ...