United States Postal Service.?

Question

What's the process for a mail to get to it's owner? After I drop a mail into a mailbox, what does the USPS do to sort it out and make sure it gets to the correct person?

Answer 1

In my youth, I was a SLM operator for the USPS. When the mail came in, it went down a shoot, and I sat at a computer much like the one you are sitting at right now. We had to have excellent vision, and they put a key pad in front of us. We would barely glance at the zip code and punch it in on the key board to what zone in the country it goes too. They the put them in big bins according to the zones, and ship them buy plane train and truck to all the main points in the country. Again they come down the shoot, this time we sort them for the area post office, and once again they go in to bins. Then they put them on local trucks, and bring them to the local stations. Next the have a sorter, that stands before square boxes, and stuffs the boxes according to the zip code. Then they have one more level. The mail carrier picks up his bag that was filled in their zip code area, and sorts according to the street number. Then by 8 am, they are now organized and stacked to be dropped to the residents mail box. Just before they take off, they also grab a bunch of junk mail to stuff in your box as well. Do you get the picture?

Answer 2

I'll add a bit to John P's answer.
The last link is the mail deliverer. That person is familiar with the route, houses, and names associated with the mailbox/slot, and can overcome slightly misaddressed mail, not quite right names, persons who have their mail forwarded or stopped, new people and those who moved away. Getting the mail to the stated address is one thing, getting it to the right person can require more actions and efforts if the address doesn't match.

Sometimes it's more than the deliverer or that post office can figure out and the mail is returned to the sender. If no return addressee exists, the mail will go to a Dead Letter office (1st class and packages) where it will be examined for potential info of its sender or addressee. After a year of sitting around unclaimed, the mail is destroyed; package contents may be resold by the postal service, typically at auctions. At one time package contents were sometimes given to charitable orgs but I don't know if this still occurs.

Answer 3

They use computers to scan the zip code and sort them out to various cities , then again it gets sorted at the postal depot in that city and gets distributed to the mail carriers.

Answer 4

They sort it by hand, and then a computer puts a code onto it. The code is then read by another computer which sorts it and then it gets fuzzy from that point. Eventually though another computer will scan it and it will end up in a mailtruck heading to your mailbox.

Answer 5

those who've no well being coverage ought to decide on to. no man or woman will be compelled to participate in a authorities software purely as no man or woman is compelled to flow to a public college. there is not any foundation (except the Reagan and Bush administrations doing each thing they could to make it so) to have self assurance that publicly owned organizations are inherently poorly run. the finest airline contained in the international is majority owned via the Singapore authorities.

Answer 6

first they sort from types of mail (media, parcel, first class, etc) Then they narrow to country, state, zip code. The mail then gets sent to that zip code's post office. Then it is delivered.

Answer 7

uhhhhhh......call the post office and find out the procedure.

Answer 8

Well what they do is "i don't know".