The machine adjusts letters so that all the addresses face the same way and are right side up.
From there, that letter, along with other mail collected by other carriers of that post office are gathered together in the mail room and placed on a truck and delivered to a mail processing plant.Īt the processing plant, the letter is sent through a machine that rapidly separates mail by shape, separating letters from large envelopes and packages, which is called the culling operation. Once that letter has been deposited into a collection box, a postal carrier removes all the mail from the box and takes it to the neighborhood post office. You enclose your mail into its envelope and fill out the address. But how does each piece get from point A to point B? Follow the fast and furious travels of a mailpiece… “We are working diligently with suppliers, maintenance and the US Postal Inspection Service to accomplish this task as expeditiously as possible,” USPS spokesperson Paul Smith said in a statement.More than 700 million pieces of mail are sorted and delivered by the Postal Service each delivery day. But the mail theft and subsequent check fraud has expanded across the city and into the suburbs, officials say, and is so pervasive that the Postal Service is in the process of replacing the locks on every collection box in Philadelphia. “They wait for these people to drop their mail in the boxes, then they go with a key and empty it bone dry,” said Nick Casselli, president of the American Postal Workers Union Local 89.Įarlier this year, The Inquirer reported about thieves compromising the collection boxes across West Philadelphia. Thieves have gotten their hands on the keys that open the signature blue mailboxes across the city, breaking into them, stealing checks, and costing victims thousands of dollars. Postal Service collection box on your street corner. Think twice before dropping a check into the blue U.S.
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