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Latest: Business Insider reports Amazon's Project Tetromino would automate delivery stations from a 2028 pilot (Amazon disputes the figures), and Palm Springs approved a 175,000 sq ft last-mile delivery hub. SortLease is accepting 30-day station sorting pilots for delivery partners (pay-per-parcel from $0.10, terms in writing, removable). Sorting systems are now named by configuration: SortLease S15-V# for vertical tiers and S15-F# for flat lines, each rated 3,600 parcels per hour.
Delivery partners, couriers and last-mile companies can now apply for a 30-day sorting pilot at their station or a shared site. The pilot is measured and written down:
Time your current sort for one week before the pilot.
Price, custody and insurance agreed in writing before installation. Pay-per-parcel pricing starts from $0.10.
Compare driver sorting hours and departure times before and during the pilot; continue, change or remove after 30 days.
Applications are confidential. SortLease does not contact your carrier or station without your permission.
Every SortLease system is designed for the customer's site, so we now name each one by what was built. V means vertical (tiers stacked, up to six); F means flat (lines side by side); the number is how many tiers or lines. Each tier or line is rated at up to 3,600 parcels an hour.
What we saw at delivery stations in Flushing and Santa Monica
Flushing, Queens (New York): delivery partners don't have enough space of their own. Three or four of them share one sorting area and take turns on the same floor every morning. None can justify its own sorter or its own space.
Santa Monica (California): the same pattern, with several partners working from one shared site. Drivers arrived around 6:00 AM, sorted their own packages by hand and left around 9:00 AM.
Shared, space-constrained sites are where one sorter used by several partners makes more sense than equipment for each. That's the idea behind the shared sorting hub.