Excuse the ? but what type of ‘intelligence’ is required to match up numbers and road signs vs. the ‘responsibility’ of putting it in box XYZ?
Now-a-days, are they not sorted by a machine? One would think the only thing left is to load ‘em up, drive ‘em along the route and ensure their ‘delivery’.
No rocket science requiring a 6-figure income and same retirement bennies.
**Now-a-days, are they not sorted by a machine? **
Those huge machines that sort the mail can only do so much. The keying in of zip codes is done by a person who sits at a console. Then it’s loaded onto trucks and is taken to local post offices.
The sorting of thousands of pieces of mail by address - then stacking it in order of delivery — and then loading into the truck, is done by the same person who brings it to your door.