Put a Stamp on It! Quantum Technology Seen as Solution to U.S. Postal Service’s Inefficiency

…Vishnu Parasuraman, the Federal Hybrid Cloud Transformation OpenShift Offering Lead and Practice Lead at IBM, told attendees at the Red Hat Government Symposium on Nov. 9 that some quantum computing use cases for the Federal government are already well in focus, with potentially big payoffs as further use of the technology comes online…

“So where do you position your postal branches [and] how do you most efficiently hit every single address in the neighborhood? Because they don’t know if you stuck a letter in there and raise the flag up right?”

…As an example, he talked about the need for the U.S. Postal Service to not only deliver mail, but also to collect it from all of those delivery locations, even when it’s unclear whether mail needs to be picked up from a customer location…

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