Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses

Re:Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses by meric on Saturday May 04, 2013 @06:44AM (#5654664)

"The machines which sort mail are pretty bad-ass. Not only can they sort by postcode, but also by address so the mail comes out in the order in which the mailman visits each building on his route."

Now, that, is technology.

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Re:Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses by calebegg on Saturday May 04, 2013 @05:31PM (#5656383)

If you enter your address on the USPS website, you can even look up the sequence number used:

https://www.usps.com/zip4/

After you enter an address, it's under "Mailing Industry Details", shown as "eLOT" (not sure what it stands for)

https://ribbs.usps.gov/index.cfm?page=elot

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Re:Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses by mh- on Saturday May 04, 2013 @09:20PM (#5657044)

eLOT = Enhanced Line of Travel

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Re:Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses by gcheong on Saturday May 04, 2013 @11:15AM (#5655144)

And still I get my neighbor's mail.

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Re:Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses by gngeal on Saturday May 04, 2013 @01:31PM (#5655580)

That's because programmers still write code with off-by-one errors!

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Re:Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses by Retric on Saturday May 04, 2013 @02:12PM (#5655733)

Thanks for that. Mostly I look at HN jokes as a waste of space, but that was just perfect.

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Re:Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses by ars on Sunday May 05, 2013 @02:45AM (#5657644)

That happens when one of your neighbors either got no mail that day, or had their mail held.

The mailman gives the next stack to each house in turn, and apparently didn't notice the address was off.

In my case it always happened when it wasn't my regular mailman.

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