**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.
I’m not sure ‘bout your ‘thousands of pieces’; much has gone the way of ‘paper-less’.
‘Bout the only thing I still get in the mail...is JUNK.
Sorry, POST’d before finished my thought:
And still, I don’t see the need for ‘high expectations’ in the job (course, I AM talking about a govt ‘worker’...so yeah, an oxy-moron).