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To: Jim Noble

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.


28 posted on 01/22/2016 6:01:13 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: i_robot73

**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.


37 posted on 01/22/2016 7:11:08 AM PST by Heart of Georgia
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