A new letter-sorting system will be installed in phases this year which will save HK$7 million annually and allow quicker mail delivery, the Postmaster General said yesterday. At present, Hongkong ...

When we last left this subject, I told you all about Transorma, the first letter-sorting machine in semi-wide use. But before and since Transorma, machines have come about to perform various tasks on ...

A short silent film showing the Multi-Position Letter Sorting Machine (MPLSM). MPLSM operators used 20-key keyboards to type in two or three numbers from the ZIP code, so the machine could then sort ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. One of the ongoing challenges of the Post Office Department over the course of the twentieth century was sorting an ...

It didn’t take too long for hand-canceling to get out of hand. The first cancelling machine, created in 1875, made fairly quick work of that. The thing was hand-fed, hand-cranked, and only worked on ...

Following a national uproar over the removal of postal equipment and reductions of retail service hours and worker overtime, the Trump Administration’s new postmaster general announced Tuesday that he ...

TikTok is a great place to see how things work behind the scenes. One United States Postal Service (USPS) worker showed how the post office sorts through letters. He also shared a public service ...