United States Postal Service

About: United States Postal Service is a government organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Sorting & Information system. The organization has 473 authors who have published 447 publications receiving 7554 citations. The organization is also known as: U.S. Postal Service & U. S. Postal Service.

Situational judgment tests, response instructions, and validity: a meta‐analysis

Abstract: Situational judgment tests (SJTs) are personnel selection instruments that present job applicants with work-related situations and possible responses to the situations. There are typically 2 types of instructions: behavioral tendency and knowledge. Behavioral tendency instructions ask respondents to identify how they would likely behave in a given situation. Knowledge instructions ask respondents to evaluate the effectiveness of possible responses to a given situation. Results showed that response instructions influenced the constructs measured by the tests. Tests with knowledge instructions had higher correlations with cognitive ability. Tests with behavioral tendency instructions showed higher correlations with personality constructs. Results also showed that response instructions had little moderating effect on criterion-related validity. Supplemental analyses showed that the moderating effect of response instructions on construct validity was not due to systematic differences in item content. SJTs have incremental validity over cognitive ability, the Big 5, and over a composite of cognitive ability and the Big 5.

Method and apparatus for tracking and locating a moveable article

Abstract: Tracking of an article through geographic areas using electromagnetic signals, specifically radio frequency (RF) signals. The article contains a tag (119) operating as a transmitter and receiver. Tag-readers (103,104,105) in the defined geographic areas transmit RF signals and in response, the tag (119) transmits RF signals received by the tag-reader. By knowing the areas in which the tag-readers are located, a system tracks the article by monitoring the tag-readers communicating with the tag.

Administrative and Strategic Advantages of HRIS

Abstract: © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ert.10039 When reference is made to human resource information systems (HRIS) in today’s environment of high-tech wizardry, it is often thought of as a business tool that allows for standardization in the gathering of information about and for a company’s employees. Although this was the original purpose of HRIS, many additional uses are beginning to emerge. As technological advancements reshape the workplace, the meaningful use of data as information is becoming more and more critical. As early as the mid-1990s, the focus had begun to shift to HRIS as an information resource because of their usefulness not only in HR decision making, but in strategic decision making as well.1 By looking at a brief evolution of the HRIS process and current capabilities, it is easier to see how a successfully implemented HRIS is moving away from a data input and storage device toward a fully operative decision-analysis tool.

Delivery point validation system

Abstract: Systems and methods consistent with the present invention encode a list so users of the list may make inquires to the coded list without the entire content of the list being revealed to the users. Each item in the list turns on one or more bits in the array 110. Once each item in the list has been encoded by an encoder, a bit array with high and low values is used to represent the items in the list. The bit array may be embodied in a validation system for allowing users to query the list to determine whether an inquiry item is on the list 105. The validation system determines which bits to check by executing the same coding process executed by the encoder. If all the bits are high, then the inquiry item is determined to be part of the list, if at least one of the bits is low, then the inquiry item is determined not to be part of the original list. An exemplary encoder and validation system comprises a standardizer, a hashing function unit, an extraction circuit, and an offset circuit.

Flexible mail delivery system and method

Abstract: The principles of the present invention provide the ability to flexibly change the delivery point and time for a mail item, while the item is en route. The recipient, sender, or mailer may flexibly change the delivery point of the item alone or in combination with each other. While an item is en route between the sending point and the delivery point, a notification is sent to indicate that the item is in transit. In response, the delivery of the item may be changed. For example, the destination specified by the sender (e.g., the delivery address written on the item) may be changed or a delivery time may be specified. The item is then delivered to the new delivery point and/or at the specified delivery time.