PHOENIX — The United States Postal Service is now operating a massive machine in Avondale that will help ensure you get your package a little faster.

The “Matrix East-West Sorter,” or MEWS, is an assembly of conveyor belts, slides and scanners roughly the size of a grocery store that can process more than one million packages a day.

The MEWS is housed at the Avondale regional processing and distribution center, a large building where USPS began operating a new shipping hub in April.

It’s part of a $40 billion, 10-year modernization effort at USPS, which began in 2021.

The cost of the new MEWS machine is proprietary and was not made public, but USPS did report it has spent $19 billion out of its $40 billion plan nationally.

What areas does the new USPS machine serve?

The Avondale RPDC

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