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It never ceases to amaze me how much work and effort (even with machines) goes into sending just one letter. This does not include the people who have made the card, sold / bought it. Incredible, talented people. Brilliant staff and service. Thank you for this video footage.
I like how the machine can tell if the letter has a first class stamp or not. I wonder if it diverts all the second class stamped letters to a waiting room for a couple of days, and then, after they've done their time, puts them back on the conveyor belt..
All the letters are processed at the same time initially. The mail being stacked in 1st and 2nd class stacks on the machine. The stacks are emptied into different containers. The first class containers are taken away to be sorted and when that's done the second class containers are worked on.
This one tugs the ole heart strings lol, I just sent my girlfriend a letter of a drawing i did for her yesterday and even though it only has to travel about 80 miles down state here in the US. it's so cool to see just how much work goes into the delivery of that special letter, being a EX Amazon worker, I understand the shipping process, but I never knew how U.S.P.S. does it and I'm sure it's not too different than this video here! great work and thank you so much to all the wonderful workers that are in charge of these special deliveries ❤.
Lovely, we watched it with my son and daughter after reading a book about a postcard. They asked how was it working to send a postcard in old days. We watched your videos and saw that you are able to combine technology with old way of communication. Thank you for sharing.
It goes together with ordinary letters and gets sorted by the machine as an international, and sent on to the airport. (Unless it's a special, then it's sent separately in a green bag from the post office).
@TheRenaissanceman65 Actually, foreign mail get sorted by the machines too, which is an easier process because RM only has to sort them by country names. However, 5 countries (USA, Canada, Australia, China, India) have paid Royal Mail to sort mail for them, so mail for these 5 countries get sorted by postcode/province/state/territory before they have even left the mail centres.
I started with postal mail since 1986 , my first letter was to BBC and after with 68 countries in the world, like Brazil Uk Indonesia ......... untill 2013 I stopped because no one want answer me, the people who wrote me betwen 18 to 90 years old about 600 people, I have 1400 stamps and postcards from the world especially Germany and UK Nostalgia!
This just made me paranoid that my letter from the UK to Germany won’t arrive (will get lost) :// I’ll update in a week ? i’m super late its been a month BUT IT ARRIVED SAFELY !!
Good luck finding a postbox that has a 6pm collection nowadays. Note also the "not known at this address" written on the TV Licensing letter in the postbox too…
Machine can tell if a letter is first or second class but they don't have one to sort letters into the same address so some poor old bugger has to manually do it by hand lol
The advert was wix.com and it said forget about this video you are about to watch and l was like excuse me this is for school work why should i? (idk why we needed to watch this but ok)
I do wonder about the journey of a letter especially when it takes 21 f....n days to get from Wollongong to Auckland ,NZ.That is by air-mail and by way it is a 3 hour 15min., flight. so can somebody explain.???
Can you show the video about the machines braking down and how the letters gets ripped apart in to pieces as the process is very fast and if 1 letter will get stuck at least a hundred will get ripped off, that would be interesting to see.
I mailed two letters two days ago. They were going to two of the teachers I had when I was in elementary school, which were a guidance counselor and a music teacher. In my letters, I told my guidance counselor that I'm sorry for lying to her and I told my music teacher that I'm sorry for calling him evil. They still haven't written back yet. They're probably outraged at me.
@StephieGsrEvolution Well, Mrs. Mallam (the guidance counselor) called the police department right after she got my letter and 50 text messages and emails. A cop came over to my house and talked to me. He was very nice, handsome, and understanding. Mr. Peters (the music teacher) still hasn't written back to me. Now I'm finished writing a letter to a guy I went to elementary school with. His name is Matt. Matt was a huge fan of presidents and sports and still is today. Matt even said that he wanted to become the president of the United States when he grew up.
@@hannahduggan3599 yeah, it probably wasn't the letter, but 50 texts and emails that made it worse. 😰 Maybe just chill and try to look foward to making new memories!
That’s why there is delay lines on the machine, in that time it chooses where it goes and what to print, and if it can’t read the whole letter it will be sent to a central office where people try to figure it out! If it’s not done in time it’ll do to an eject or refers box
Almost except depending on the distance it takes one or two weeks for a letter to be delivered. And mail carriers sort out their own letters and parcels the clerks used to at one point, not anymore.
Journey of a letter, is that a joke, from post box to sorting office where it sits for weeks, than when they find it onwards to the sorting office where again it sits again for weeks until they lose it
Unless you are sending to Italy. And then the post will take months to get to its final destination. Italian postal service has to be the worst in the world. Appalling service and attitude if trying to chase up your delivery.
Our RED boxes have the collection time on the box, so that is the expected time when the driver will arrive to empty the box. Then, the journey to your Mail's destination begins. Once the driver has emptied all of the boxes on his route, he returns to the processing centre, where all the collected mail begins to be processed and sorted.
People call or chat nowadays. Less letters means less money 😢 I just realized that postal services will completely die within 5 years all over the globe, so I sent 2 letters last week and now I'm going to start postcrossing while it is still possible.
@@harryweiss4669junk mail is a massive source of revenue for Royal Mail, who plead poverty and the CEO Simon Thompson left with a 700,000 pounds pay off 😂😂😂😂
Could you show us where the postmen open Christmas cards, steal any money within, throw the envelope away and repeat, ad infinitum? Tell us how a RM postman is sacked, every single day of every single year, for theft. Tell us why my postman admits he needs glasses but fails to wear them, so he delivers other people's mail to me and God knows where mine goes. Many thanks.
@@HusseinDoha I'm not talking of bad apples. I'm telling you I don't know any other business that employs so many thieves. The internal RM monthly magazine has a list of around 30 ex-employees sacked every month for stealing and those are only the ones they caught. Cess-pit.
@@seankirby2580 Exaggerating much, don't ever send money in a card, the posties gets the blame if it goes missing but it's much more likely that the mail centre staff have nicked it.
3:41 Why is he not putting the letters into the perstop tray incorrectly? Upside down facing the barcode on the tray and not side ways, I feel he needs training.
same, the process looks simple, maybe i shouldn't have ordered so close to xmas, and maybe it wasn't the best idea for the ebay seller to plaster his business name all over the package which pretty much screamed "Woohoo, expensive pokemon cards inside". but i was expecting it to be simple as cards are one of the easiest things to sort it seems. i've learnt to start splitting the orders up, not as environmentally friendly but it seems to get delivered without fail when it's not worth losing.
@@MT-np4ek check this reply few rows down: Paul JJ 3 years ago Can you show the video about the machines braking down and how the letters gets ripped apart in to pieces as the process is very fast and if 1 letter will get stuck at least a hundred will get ripped off, that would be interesting to see.
@@misscg367 I can remember using the old franking machines and if there was cash in the envelope the machine would often break the envelope to shreds,that's why people are told never to put money in an envelope.