Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "How USPS Sorts Mail" video.

  1. There's industrial strength OCR involved, people only read it if that fails.
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  2.  @Melora.Perseous  Priority mail is kind of a scam. You never know if you actually got the service you paid for as it's just priority over the other mail. So, it's entirely possible that the mail got there in the same amount of time. And, despite the days on the pieces, most of the time there's no guarantee of a delivery on a certain day.
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  3.  @superdupert6  Really? I've had far more trouble with the private companies than USPS. The main issue I have with USPS is that the delivery times can border on fraud. That priority mail may or may not actually arrive any quicker and isn't guaranteed to get there in the specified time frame either.
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  4. Yep, they used to deliver 7 days a week and multiple times a day in major cities. But, yeah, they don't just shut down because it's Sunday. Sunday is a sort of catch up day for all the behind the scenes stuff that isn't directly delivering things.
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  5. A zip+4 number gets a letter far closer to the ultimate delivery address than people realize. If there weren't so many addresses, a letter carrier could just about deliver it with just that information and a name. Of course, that would take a lot of time and be error prone, but for the occasional letter or package it works more often than one would expect.
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  6. They're in position they are financially because congress sabotaged them at the behest of UPS and FedEx. They're also required to deliver first class mail for the same price, no matter where in the country. Something that the private carriers don't have to do.
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  7.  @C_Kava  Happens, and sometimes mail falls behind a machine without anybody noticing. It's amazing how infrequently letters are lost in the mail just because of how small they are compared with the size of the buildings they travel through.
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  8. Clearly, I don't know the last time I saw the letter carrier show up in such a large truck.
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  9. Much less efficiently with actual people.
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