The USPS uses Kinetica as the foundation of its real-time analytics platform. This infographic includes key statistics from this USPS case study. For more info, go to http://www.kinetica.com/case-studies/usps/

1. USPS BY THE NUMBERS
Daily deliveries to over
154 million addresses
200,000+ USPS devices
emitting location once
every minute
600,000 employees
215,000 vehicles
500 million pieces of mail delivered daily
Distributed Analysis USPS’ parallel cluster is
able to serve up to 15,000 daily sessions,
providing managers and analysts with real-time dashboards.
IDC Innovation Excellence Award
Recipient for USPS’s use of Kinetica to
track the location of employees
and individual pieces of mail
in real time.
At Scale With 200,000 USPS devices emitting location once
every minute, that amounts to >250 million events
captured and analyzed daily.
The United
States Postal
Service has:
The country’s largest
retail nework—larger
than McDonald’s,
Starbucks and Walmart
combined.
47% of the world’s
mail volume handled
by the USPS.
Route Optimization
By tracking carrier movements in real time, USPS has immediate visibility into
the status of deliveries anywhere in the US, creating opportunities to modify
routes and reduce unnecessary transport costs.
Route optimization improves on-time delivery, enables fewer trucks to handle
a greater number of deliveries, and narrows delivery windows.
Service Improved by Analysis
of Breadcrumb Data
Determines actual delivery and collection point locations.
Enables delivery notifications to mailers and customers.
USPS now can:
• Understand where spending achieves the
best results
• Make faster and more efficient strategic decisions
• Provide more reliable service
• Reduce costs by streamlining deliveries
Kinetica is used to collect,
process and analyze over
200,000 messages
per minute.
1/4 billion events needed to be captured
and analyzed daily
The Kinetica Solution:
Improving end-to-end business process performance and
reducing costs addressing need for fast business decisions
based on live data.
With Kinetica’s GPU-accelerated database, the USPS can:
• Save millions of dollars annually
• Deliver more sophisticated services
• Achieve more accurate tracking capabilities
• Ensure safer, on-time deliveries
• Increase operational efficiencies
Real-Time Decision-Making
from Geospatial Data
Visualizing routes, delivery points, and collection points lets dispatchers
efficiently plan and view employee territory assignments.
Postal managers can find inefficiencies such as overlapping coverage of assigned
areas, uncovered areas, and distribution bottlenecks.
Improved contingency planning if a carrier was unable to deliver to assigned routes.
Using workforce more efficiency by aggregating point-to-point carrier performance data.