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==== Evolutionary Network Development (END) program ====
In February 2006, the USPS announced that they plan to replace the nine existing facility-types with five processing facility-types:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lunewsviews.com/consolidations.htm |title=Lunewsviews.com |publisher=Lunewsviews.com |access-date=July 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324001913/http://www.lunewsviews.com/consolidations.htm |archive-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* '''Regional Distribution Centers''' ('''RDCs'''), which will process all classes of parcels and bundles and serve as Surface Transfer Centers;
* '''Local Processing Centers''' ('''LPCs'''), which will process single-piece letters and flats and cancel mail;
* '''Destination Processing Centers''' ('''DPC'''), sort the mail for individual letter-carrier route;
* '''Airport Transfer Centers''' ('''ATCs'''), which will serve as transfer points only; and
* '''Remote Encoding Centers''' ('''RECs''').

Over a period of years, these facilities are expected to replace Processing & Distribution Centers, Customer Service Facilities, Bulk Mail Centers, Logistic and Distribution Centers, annexes, the Hub and Spoke Program, Air Mail Centers, and International Service Centers.

The changes are a result of the declining volumes of single-piece First-Class Mail, population shifts, the increase in drop shipments by advertising mailers at destinating postal facilities, advancements in equipment and technology, redundancies in the existing network, and the need for operational flexibility.

The program was ended in early 2007 after an analysis revealed that the significant amount of capital investment required to implement the END network concept would not generate the benefits originally anticipated.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://about.usps.com/postal-act-2006/postal-service-networkplan.htm | title=Postal Accountability And Enhancement Act §&nbsp;302 Network Plan | access-date=May 5, 2020 | archive-date=May 23, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200523105341/https://about.usps.com/postal-act-2006/postal-service-networkplan.htm | url-status=live }}</ref>