US Postal Service Technical Training Center Norman Oklahoma

After working for a year in in the Postal Service as a BEM. I took the test to become an ET (Electronics Technician) my scores ranked me as # 2 on the list out of 250 applicants.

They promoted me to ET right away and sent me to school learn how to fix the most advanced machine they had at that time, which was the Pitney Bowes MLOCR (Multiline Optical Chararceter Recognition) Letter Sorting Machine. This machine used 47 parallel proccessors to read the addresses on the envelopes, then spray a barcode on the left front corner and sort them out at the rate of 38,000 pieces an hour to any one of 60 different collection bins.

BEM (Building Equipment Mechanic) and ET (Electronics Technician Training) facility

Back when I was a Postal Employee the Postal Service operated a highly organized and uniform technical training program out of a facility centrally located in the USA. This was the USPS Technical Training Center (TTC) located in a leased dormitory building at the campus of Oklahoma University also known as OU. The logic of this was simple bring everyone to the same location to learn things the same way, then work methods become uniform, and personnel become interchangable between locations. Below is the list of Electronics Technician courses they sent me to.

No.	Date	Course Name or Title	Subject Matter	Hours	Grade
25	03/27/85	Digital Electronic Principles	Undersatanding Logic Gates	26Hrs	92%
26	03/28/85	Intro to Oscilloscopes	How to set up and use a scope	12Hrs	80%
27	04/02/85	Intro to Computer Systems	Binary Math & Digital Logic	76Hrs	97%
28	05/17/85	Digital Computer Systems	Computer Hardware & Software	116Hrs	98%
29	08/02/85	Pitney Bowes OCR Mail Sorter	OCR Computer Repairs	232Hrs	95%
30	10/04/85	Pitney Bowes OCR Mail Sorter	DC Circuit Theory	232Hrs	96%