How do does great britain post work

Question

say if your going to post a letter from midlands to central london what would happen

Answer 1

Write the address on the envelope, put a stamp on the top right corner.  Post it in a letter box (red with a slot near the top).  Then at the end of the day the postman comes along in a big red van and empties the letterbox.  He takes all the letters to the local sorting office, where they are sorted out by postcode and address.  Then they go in another van or sometimes a train, to the sorting office close to where the address is.  They are sorted again into streets and given to the local postman to take round to post.

Answer 2

There's a little man in the post box with a laptop.  He opens your letter, types it all into the laptop then e-mails it to the nearest post box to where you have sent it.  There, another little man with a laptop prints it out in Word and someone delivers it to the door.

How do you think it works?

Answer 3

first someone would set fire to the postbox, then postman plod would saunter up to it when he was good and ready, and then lose the letter down the back of his van seat. Then he would go on strike for a week and then steal the letter to see if it had money in it.

Answer 4

Howdy do yourself, partner!  And yes it does.

Answer 5

You put whatever you wish to send in a envelope, write the address, put a stamp on it, pop it in the letterbox and forget about it while the royal mail do their work.

Complicated i know lol

Answer 6

Great Britian Post

Answer 7

It would be collected from the box at a certain time on a list the posties have, taken back to the mail centre and then it goes into a big "tumble dryer" of a machine where it sorts all the letters out into size etc.

It then goes down a little chute where the computer takes a photo of the letter, matches the address up to one it's database and then prints the little orange barcode on it to tell the other machines where it's going.

Further down the chute it gets sorted into the same areas. They are then bundled up, put into another machine who sorts it further and they are then delivered to your local delivery office the following morning for the postmen to sort.

That's providing it has the correct postage for it's size and weight and is correctly addressed.

You could contact royal mail customer services on 08457 740 740 and ask if their educational services department could send you out a little DVD called Lenny the Letter (for ages 4-7) and it gives a brief outline of the above process.

It's all very clever actually, especially as it's all done for less than 36p for a small first class letter and it will be there more or less next working day.