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Recently, profits have been used as outlays for sophisticated automated sorting machines that Rowan says, “I can’t even understand. They have what they call processing plants. The machine goes faster than you and I can blink, sorts that letter, bar codes it and sends it on to wherever it’s going.”
The machines are housed in what is known as a processing plant. Not long ago, the 10 acre plant for sorting mail at Dulles, Va. became fully operational. This plant serves the western part of Northern Virginia.
Rowan says, “I would personally say that once the plant in Dulles got fully operational, the mail service in this area has been very good.”
Rowan’s beginnings
Growing up, Rowan attended schools all over the world due to her father being in the military. She graduated from a high school in London, England and received an English degree from George Mason University. At the university, she met her future husband.
Rowan recalls the events that led to her employment with the postal service, “I was working part time at
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