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cessing and distribution plant so that it can be placed into the mail system. *
Mail from Rappahannock County Post Offices goes to the Dulles Processing and Distribution Center. This ten acre facility located in Dulles, handles the mail for the western section of the Northern * Virginia division.
As the truck rumbles down the road, the driver thinks about getting the mail to the plant early enough to meet dispatch time.
Coordinating the travels of the mail is as challenging as scheduling a daily travel itinerary for millions of people who are going from any number of locations to just as many destinations!
When it arrives at the mail processing facility it is dumped, along with millions of other letters, onto the first of many conveyor belts leading to a facer-canceller. A facercanceller may sound complicated but it does just what it says.
With the help of an efficient postal employee, the machine “faces” all the letters
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