How does a post office work?

Question

when the post comes in how does it get sorted any links would be appreciated, ta

Answer 1

How does the post office work ?

                                       bloody slowly.

Answer 2

You put a letter in one of the red box things on street corners. A lazy man in a dark blue suit empties the box at some point and the letter goes to a sorting office. It then gets sorted and sent to another sorting office near the destination. It goes through a machine that can sort millions of items an hour and then they give it to a man on a bike. The man will wonder about the streets leaving elastic bands all over the place before eventually posting the letter through the letter box somewhere near where it was addressed to.

Answer 3

Why does everyone mock the Post Office? We work b***dy hard! Who else would take a letter from say, Glasgow to Plymouth next day (98.2% guaranteed) for 32p? You'll miss us when the service is gone and you're paying private couriers about six quid to do the same job. Support your posties before it's too late!

Answer 4

When at the sorting office, all mail sacks get tipped into a large rotating drum - that's about 15 foot long. It only rotates slowly, and is tilted slightly downward.

In the sides of the drum are slotsthat the letters fall through - if it's a letter. The machinery then separates them out individually vertically onto a track. Rubber belts each side of this guide the letters very fast between operations. One operation is to orient the letters so they are the right way up, and the right way around. Then they are held - only for a fraction of a second in front of a camera. The software reads the postcode and sends it down the line. Moving flaps operate to send the letter into the correct sorting area - Local and international. The local letters get bagged up for their town destination - and sent by rail mostly. At the destination town sorting office, they are sorted again - usually by hand into areas and devivery routes.

  Some letters that cannot be automatically read, are read by staff, and inputted by typing - a printer then prints the letter with light blue dots - visible by the camera system. Light orange barcodes are also used.

Parcels that go down the sorting chute - just come out the bottom. They are then hand sorted from a conveyer going past a lot of operators - who read the postcodes and throw them in the upright sacks next to them.

Letters tend to travel faster if electronically printed - as they are automatically read and sorted - rather than labouriously by hand.

Please use the Postcode!!

Answer 5

the small town where i came from would give tours to newcomers to the area, go to your local post office and ask the manager for a tour. they might surprise you and give you one and you will be surprised at the work it takes to sort all that mail in one small office.

Answer 6

Badly and slovenly usually, unfortunately ! ! !