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NVIDIA Provides U.S. Postal Service AI Technology to Improve Delivery Service
I guess, NVIDIA is losing a lot of packages somehow and decided to step in :) NVIDIA announced that the United States Postal Service with 485 million mail pieces processed and delivered daily – is adopting end-to-end AI technology from NVIDIA to improve its package data processing efficiency.
The new system starts with high-performance servers powered by NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs and deep learning software to train multiple AI algorithms. The trained models are then deployed to NVIDIA EGX edge computing systems at close to 200 Postal Service facilities throughout the U.S. to enable more efficient package data processing. The NVIDIA-powered systems are being purchased by the Postal Service under contract with Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
“AI is transforming multiple industries, enabling processes, accuracy and efficiency not possible before,” said Anthony Robbins, vice president of the Federal Sector Business at NVIDIA. “The U.S. Postal Service’s adoption of AI demonstrates how this powerful technology can improve an excellent service that we rely on every day. Benjamin Franklin would be proud.”
The Postal Service operates the world’s highest volume logistics operation, processing and delivering some 146 billion pieces of mail annually, including more than 6 billion packages. The new AI system will process package data 10x faster and with higher accuracy.
Engineering teams from the Postal Service and NVIDIA have been collaborating for several months to develop AI models, using NVIDIA software including TensorRT™ for high-throughput, low-latency inference optimization; automatic mixed precision in PyTorch to accelerate training while maintaining model accuracy; NGC containers, which are GPU-optimized for streamlining software deployment; and DeepOps tools for optimizing GPU clusters.
Delivery and testing of the system will start this year and it is expected to be fully operational by spring of 2020.
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#5728379 Posted on: 11/06/2019 11:05 AM
I work for USPS. The upper management seems bound and determined to run it straight into the ground. If there's still a USPS in 10 years, I'd honestly be shocked. I swear "they" are sabotaging one of the largest employers in the US so they can sell it (privatize) which would ultimately be a catastrophe.
As to this Nvidia AI stuff? Regardless what it's initial intent is, all it's ultimately going to do is allow management to micromanage employees even further. Nothing they do anymore is about making jobs easier on employees. Literally nothing.
I work for USPS. The upper management seems bound and determined to run it straight into the ground. If there's still a USPS in 10 years, I'd honestly be shocked. I swear "they" are sabotaging one of the largest employers in the US so they can sell it (privatize) which would ultimately be a catastrophe.
As to this Nvidia AI stuff? Regardless what it's initial intent is, all it's ultimately going to do is allow management to micromanage employees even further. Nothing they do anymore is about making jobs easier on employees. Literally nothing.
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#5728417 Posted on: 11/06/2019 12:24 PM
Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. These deficits are going to get even worse due to overly-generous union negotiated pensions as more and more retire in their mid-50's and live for another 30-40 years... typically longer than they worked for the USPS. Such a system is unsustainable and reforms need to happen sooner rather than later to keep things afloat.
Well my mailman could use some micromanaging because he tends to spend a lot of time working on his tan at the pool in my community instead of delivering mail.
I work for USPS. The upper management seems bound and determined to run it straight into the ground. If there's still a USPS in 10 years, I'd honestly be shocked. I swear "they" are sabotaging one of the largest employers in the US so they can sell it (privatize) which would ultimately be a catastrophe.
Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. These deficits are going to get even worse due to overly-generous union negotiated pensions as more and more retire in their mid-50's and live for another 30-40 years... typically longer than they worked for the USPS. Such a system is unsustainable and reforms need to happen sooner rather than later to keep things afloat.
Regardless what it's initial intent is, all it's ultimately going to do is allow management to micromanage employees even further. Nothing they do anymore is about making jobs easier on employees. Literally nothing.
Well my mailman could use some micromanaging because he tends to spend a lot of time working on his tan at the pool in my community instead of delivering mail.
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#5728458 Posted on: 11/06/2019 02:30 PM
above post kinda interesting to me, i dont live in US so i dont know how the current situation in there
in our era "mail" (in meaning old-days-letters, parcel etc.) isnt used as much anymore
But, we living in online-world, where people shopping things online much more than before, even most groceries have delivery service nowdays right?
in most country delivery service been growing like crazy... i bet that situation is same in US
well probably different for USPS because its goverment-company, so probably they dont do online-business-delivery/shipping service ?
even so that they are not doing really good in local/domestic shipping, but for some country i know, nation-postal service still the main-oversea-shipping-service, in asia such as EMS ... that EMS is far more used compared to DHL / FEDEX... its like 6(ems):4(dhl/fedex/etc.) share
because not only the service quite fast but the fee is also much cheaper
and many online-shop big or small using it as main-shipping-service
anyway isnt that company that run by nation/goverment, usually no matter what the condition? so even near bankrupt they will always get infusion from the gov. .... well i dont know how things works in US
above post kinda interesting to me, i dont live in US so i dont know how the current situation in there
in our era "mail" (in meaning old-days-letters, parcel etc.) isnt used as much anymore
But, we living in online-world, where people shopping things online much more than before, even most groceries have delivery service nowdays right?
in most country delivery service been growing like crazy... i bet that situation is same in US
well probably different for USPS because its goverment-company, so probably they dont do online-business-delivery/shipping service ?
even so that they are not doing really good in local/domestic shipping, but for some country i know, nation-postal service still the main-oversea-shipping-service, in asia such as EMS ... that EMS is far more used compared to DHL / FEDEX... its like 6(ems):4(dhl/fedex/etc.) share
because not only the service quite fast but the fee is also much cheaper
and many online-shop big or small using it as main-shipping-service
anyway isnt that company that run by nation/goverment, usually no matter what the condition? so even near bankrupt they will always get infusion from the gov. .... well i dont know how things works in US
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#5728461 Posted on: 11/06/2019 02:35 PM
Please know what you are talking about before you bad mouth something. Fact: Postal service operates in the black. Fact: The postal service has to run only on revenue generated by it's service. Fact: The postal service does not use one penny of U.S. taxpayers money to operate. Fact: The U.S. congress in their infinite wisdom enacted a law forcing the Postal service to pre fund health care and benefits out of their revenue. That is why they operate in the red. So please take your ignorant rant somewhere else.
And your postman is allowed to take a break wherever he pleases. Stop being so nosy and paranoid. Try thinking for yourself and not listen to the fake media and your friends gossip.
Revenues are supposed to cover the postal service's costs, but mail volume is plunging, and the USPS has been losing billions of dollars a year for more than a decade. These deficits are going to get even worse due to overly-generous union negotiated pensions as more and more retire in their mid-50's and live for another 30-40 years... typically longer than they worked for the USPS. Such a system is unsustainable and reforms need to happen sooner rather than later to keep things afloat.
Please know what you are talking about before you bad mouth something. Fact: Postal service operates in the black. Fact: The postal service has to run only on revenue generated by it's service. Fact: The postal service does not use one penny of U.S. taxpayers money to operate. Fact: The U.S. congress in their infinite wisdom enacted a law forcing the Postal service to pre fund health care and benefits out of their revenue. That is why they operate in the red. So please take your ignorant rant somewhere else.
And your postman is allowed to take a break wherever he pleases. Stop being so nosy and paranoid. Try thinking for yourself and not listen to the fake media and your friends gossip.
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