MAUMELLE, Ark. — The United States Postal Service is working hard to ensure your packages are delivered to you.
In Maumelle, a processing plant sees every package mailed out of Central Arkansas.
Ronald Grayum Sr. told us the last truck usually arrives at the plant around 8:00 p.m. Central, which is then unloaded and taken to a machine that sorts the packages.
That machine is the center of the operation and is coded and programmed to sort each package to the correct destination bin by itself.
"There are 184 bins on this machine that run approximately 3,000 mail pieces per hour," Ronald Grayum Jr. said.
Then, the machine scans the barcodes on the packages and sorts them into bins.
The machine scans the barcode on the package to sort the packages into bins. A hazmat bin also lets the postal workers know there could be dangerous materials in the package before shipping it to the following location.
Once that package is in the box, it will be loaded onto another truck on its way home.
"What's a good way to put this? Organized chaos! But it's beautiful," Ronald Grayum Sr. said.
The processing plant in Maumelle is one of the top ten plants in the United States Postal Service for how many packages it ships out.