Good Question: How does the post office deliver mail?

This busy holiday season, the U.S. Postal Service has delivered more than 10 billion packages and pieces of mail. It takes a lot of workers – and a lot of technology.

[trixiemcfly]

I'm a mail carrier, this video explains the process at the major plant. I can assure you that not all the mail comes in order. The process to get your mail out is a big task. There is a big difference in how city and rural route mail is delivered.

[DB_-]

I finally see what happened to my lost letter... 1:14

[unaeki]

My dad was a courier. Knowing how everything is done in detail makes me appreciate the role people have to undertake even more.

[BlueDragonAkira]

This roughly explains what we call DPS mail its mail already in order. Most carriers have to sort their mail by hand. So you can imagine how long that usually takes we have no machine that does it for us just our own hands. The question that gets on my nerves is “what takes you so long” if they come and spend 1 day with the carriers they might understand but I know some people just don’t care

[romcallis]

I’m a former usps letter carrier and one year on the day after thanksgiving I was out until midnight

[-Cece]

OMG that's my Christmas
I made a stop at the USPS Postal Museum in Washington DC to watch mail being sorted and was sadly disappointed. So glad we have this video!!!!

[roachtoasties]

I recently got a letter one year after it was mailed. I think it fell on the floor under a sorting machine, and remained there until someone found it and put it back on its way.

[This_and_that_]

I see I now have two lost packages as of now.

[soteriology]

Inefficiently

10-40% of the letters are upside down, depends on the day. They don’t create stops lists for you, interactive maps etc.

[pegatheetoo]

I have a package coming from IL. It has been moving back & forth in IL for 3 days and is still in IL. I had another pkg move around near Mpls MN for a few days, came to my town then went back for Mpls for a few more days before it finally got here. WTH!! There is SOMETHING wrong with their system!

[rosegensardena]

How to find my parcel in phillippes by USPS😢..

[janetphillips]

Well, my PRIORITY MAIL was sent from Birmingham Al supposedly yo Dubois, Wy. Its been ten f' ing days! Its gone from Bham to Denver to Bham to denver to Colorado Springs to Denver, left Denver arrived in denver repeatedly about 8 times already. I STILL DONT HAVE IT!

[racecar]

according to usps tracking my package was supposed to arrive yesterday (the 4th) by 9pm. the latest update is it arrived at a "local" regional facility yesterday at 10 am, nothing since. now it says arriving by the 9th should I be concerned

[dianafagetan]

Some websites don't sent items parcel in Europe

[Johndoe-nxuz]

What ever the sorters in the Rodchester ny hub want they take or lose, then all the un wanted packages go on the ones that usps sorters want you only get in transit to next facility arriving late .and thats all you get .

[michaelgreen]

I want the junk mail to stop from the Woodland post office they refused now I’m gonna get an attorney and sue them😮

[stopher]

I don’t know, but I hope they figure it out

[DecksterGaming]

Tbh the small mail shouldn’t be going that fast lol should be a lil slower like the bigger packages so it can be better accurate tbh 😂 I be only 45% mail be correct for carrier sadly

[jaddyrose]

God bless the letter carriers of America

[Bill-ci]

How does the USPS deliver mail? Poorly. I have had packages sit in the same location for several days before they were finally forwarded to the next destination. USPS SUCKS!!!