![]() ![]() If there’s an obstruction in this way, it would just stop and not be able to complete to its destination. And these self-driving AGVs need clear aisle ways to be able to operate. They didn’t have enough space to house all of those packages. One, it created congestion in their facilities. And that caused a lot of issues for the Postal Service. And right after that is when COVID happened and there was a big surge of package volume. What the Postal Service told us is why they didn’t use and what we found by interviewing local management was they were deployed in 2019. And are these things still deployed or what’s the status now? Because these were purchased back in 2019. And we also estimated that post office would fall short of their projected savings by at least $105 million. So as a result, we questioned costs totaling $28 million related to the purchase of those underutilized AGVs. And additionally, we found another quarter that were used on average about once per day. However, we found almost a quarter of the ads weren’t used once in over a year. Initially they expected to operate each AGV 40 hours per week. Todd Watson So we found that the Postal Service did not meet its goals for using AGVs. ![]() So what happened when they deployed these 350 devices, gadgets, robots? But we’ll speculate on that one, I guess. Tom Temin Or they paid too much and they don’t want anyone to know. Todd Watson Well, the Postal Service felt like they would lose some competitive advantage if it disclosed how much cost was associated with this investment. I’m just curious as to why that’s the case. In your report on this, the amount they spent on them is redacted. This was a third party vendor that sold these machines to different companies to use in their warehouses. Tom Temin And these were commercial standard types of automated vehicles that you might find in, you know, an Amazon warehouse or, you know, UPS or something. Postal Service had expected this would save about $298 million by reducing the amount of human work hours associated with this work. Tom Temin This is very short distances, maybe a couple of hundred yards at a time. Get prescriptive advice from leaders at the Army, CISA, GSA, USCIS, Red Hat, Second Front Systems, Venafi and VMware in our new ebook, sponsored by Carahsoft. ![]() Between the Lines with the Administrative Conference of the United StatesĪgencies across government increasingly are scaling up their development, security and operations programs. ![]()
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