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It never ceases to amaze me how much work and effort (even with machines) goes into sending just one letter. This does not include the people who have made the card, sold / bought it. Incredible, talented people. Brilliant staff and service. Thank you for this video footage.
I like how the machine can tell if the letter has a first class stamp or not. I wonder if it diverts all the second class stamped letters to a waiting room for a couple of days, and then, after they've done their time, puts them back on the conveyor belt..
All the letters are processed at the same time initially. The mail being stacked in 1st and 2nd class stacks on the machine. The stacks are emptied into different containers. The first class containers are taken away to be sorted and when that's done the second class containers are worked on.
This one tugs the ole heart strings lol, I just sent my girlfriend a letter of a drawing i did for her yesterday and even though it only has to travel about 80 miles down state here in the US. it's so cool to see just how much work goes into the delivery of that special letter, being a EX Amazon worker, I understand the shipping process, but I never knew how U.S.P.S. does it and I'm sure it's not too different than this video here! great work and thank you so much to all the wonderful workers that are in charge of these special deliveries ❤.
Lovely, we watched it with my son and daughter after reading a book about a postcard. They asked how was it working to send a postcard in old days. We watched your videos and saw that you are able to combine technology with old way of communication. Thank you for sharing.
It goes together with ordinary letters and gets sorted by the machine as an international, and sent on to the airport. (Unless it's a special, then it's sent separately in a green bag from the post office).
@TheRenaissanceman65 Actually, foreign mail get sorted by the machines too, which is an easier process because RM only has to sort them by country names. However, 5 countries (USA, Canada, Australia, China, India) have paid Royal Mail to sort mail for them, so mail for these 5 countries get sorted by postcode/province/state/territory before they have even left the mail centres.
I started with postal mail since 1986 , my first letter was to BBC and after with 68 countries in the world, like Brazil Uk Indonesia ......... untill 2013 I stopped because no one want answer me, the people who wrote me betwen 18 to 90 years old about 600 people, I have 1400 stamps and postcards from the world especially Germany and UK Nostalgia!
I do wonder about the journey of a letter especially when it takes 21 f....n days to get from Wollongong to Auckland ,NZ.That is by air-mail and by way it is a 3 hour 15min., flight. so can somebody explain.???
Good luck finding a postbox that has a 6pm collection nowadays. Note also the "not known at this address" written on the TV Licensing letter in the postbox too…
Machine can tell if a letter is first or second class but they don't have one to sort letters into the same address so some poor old bugger has to manually do it by hand lol
The advert was wix.com and it said forget about this video you are about to watch and l was like excuse me this is for school work why should i? (idk why we needed to watch this but ok)
That’s why there is delay lines on the machine, in that time it chooses where it goes and what to print, and if it can’t read the whole letter it will be sent to a central office where people try to figure it out! If it’s not done in time it’ll do to an eject or refers box
This just made me paranoid that my letter from the UK to Germany won’t arrive (will get lost) :// I’ll update in a week ? i’m super late its been a month BUT IT ARRIVED SAFELY !!
Can you show the video about the machines braking down and how the letters gets ripped apart in to pieces as the process is very fast and if 1 letter will get stuck at least a hundred will get ripped off, that would be interesting to see.
I mailed two letters two days ago. They were going to two of the teachers I had when I was in elementary school, which were a guidance counselor and a music teacher. In my letters, I told my guidance counselor that I'm sorry for lying to her and I told my music teacher that I'm sorry for calling him evil. They still haven't written back yet. They're probably outraged at me.
@StephieGsrEvolution Well, Mrs. Mallam (the guidance counselor) called the police department right after she got my letter and 50 text messages and emails. A cop came over to my house and talked to me. He was very nice, handsome, and understanding. Mr. Peters (the music teacher) still hasn't written back to me. Now I'm finished writing a letter to a guy I went to elementary school with. His name is Matt. Matt was a huge fan of presidents and sports and still is today. Matt even said that he wanted to become the president of the United States when he grew up.
@@hannahduggan3599 yeah, it probably wasn't the letter, but 50 texts and emails that made it worse. 😰 Maybe just chill and try to look foward to making new memories!
Almost except depending on the distance it takes one or two weeks for a letter to be delivered. And mail carriers sort out their own letters and parcels the clerks used to at one point, not anymore.
Journey of a letter, is that a joke, from post box to sorting office where it sits for weeks, than when they find it onwards to the sorting office where again it sits again for weeks until they lose it
Could you show us where the postmen open Christmas cards, steal any money within, throw the envelope away and repeat, ad infinitum? Tell us how a RM postman is sacked, every single day of every single year, for theft. Tell us why my postman admits he needs glasses but fails to wear them, so he delivers other people's mail to me and God knows where mine goes. Many thanks.
@@HusseinDoha I'm not talking of bad apples. I'm telling you I don't know any other business that employs so many thieves. The internal RM monthly magazine has a list of around 30 ex-employees sacked every month for stealing and those are only the ones they caught. Cess-pit.
@@seankirby2580 Exaggerating much, don't ever send money in a card, the posties gets the blame if it goes missing but it's much more likely that the mail centre staff have nicked it.
Our RED boxes have the collection time on the box, so that is the expected time when the driver will arrive to empty the box. Then, the journey to your Mail's destination begins. Once the driver has emptied all of the boxes on his route, he returns to the processing centre, where all the collected mail begins to be processed and sorted.
People call or chat nowadays. Less letters means less money 😢 I just realized that postal services will completely die within 5 years all over the globe, so I sent 2 letters last week and now I'm going to start postcrossing while it is still possible.
@@harryweiss4669junk mail is a massive source of revenue for Royal Mail, who plead poverty and the CEO Simon Thompson left with a 700,000 pounds pay off 😂😂😂😂
Unless you are sending to Italy. And then the post will take months to get to its final destination. Italian postal service has to be the worst in the world. Appalling service and attitude if trying to chase up your delivery.
3:41 Why is he not putting the letters into the perstop tray incorrectly? Upside down facing the barcode on the tray and not side ways, I feel he needs training.
same, the process looks simple, maybe i shouldn't have ordered so close to xmas, and maybe it wasn't the best idea for the ebay seller to plaster his business name all over the package which pretty much screamed "Woohoo, expensive pokemon cards inside". but i was expecting it to be simple as cards are one of the easiest things to sort it seems. i've learnt to start splitting the orders up, not as environmentally friendly but it seems to get delivered without fail when it's not worth losing.
@@MT-np4ek check this reply few rows down: Paul JJ 3 years ago Can you show the video about the machines braking down and how the letters gets ripped apart in to pieces as the process is very fast and if 1 letter will get stuck at least a hundred will get ripped off, that would be interesting to see.
@@misscg367 I can remember using the old franking machines and if there was cash in the envelope the machine would often break the envelope to shreds,that's why people are told never to put money in an envelope.
He is parking to collect the post for a few minutes, as an employee in a mark vehicle there is nothing illegal about it, would you rather prefer him to walk 100 yards or so?
Royal Mail is not what it used to be, nowadays they are absolutely useless! I have had so many issues with them and was compensated with a book of 1st class stamps! Don’t even waste my time complaining anymore
It never ceases to amaze me how much work and effort (even with machines) goes into sending just one letter. This does not include the people who have made the card, sold / bought it. Incredible, talented people. Brilliant staff and service.
Thank you for this video footage.
HELP I ORDER STUFF AND I PUT WRONG POSTCODE BUT TIGHT ADRESSS
@@voguecharliii7795 Royal Mail are pretty good at figuring out that sort of mistake. I’m guessing you received it in the end?
Well the us postal service is a joke 😂
“we seperate every item”
*flings letter into machine*
Im here because i want to see how they send my letter to my penpal 😅
Darling Dar same with me lol!
Same
Same
Darling Dar same
join the club
The grandma at the end looks so happy!
lol
Not really lol
@@MrHellsing1055 Was it staged?
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Christian Jiang she looks disappointed
To be honest that is how people look at a letter
It's amazing that in the era of computers and AI, this requires pairs of human hands. So many people working hard behind the scenes.
Well done Royal Mail, you do a great job..
I like how the machine can tell if the letter has a first class stamp or not. I wonder if it diverts all the second class stamped letters to a waiting room for a couple of days, and then, after they've done their time, puts them back on the conveyor belt..
i think the first class is just handled first or handled faster a waiting room is just silly
@@shafiulcse I think the person just meant it as a silly joke 😄
All the letters are processed at the same time initially. The mail being stacked in 1st and 2nd class stacks on the machine. The stacks are emptied into different containers. The first class containers are taken away to be sorted and when that's done the second class containers are worked on.
The blue balloon is so cute, just unnaturally standing still while the mail moves about
This one tugs the ole heart strings lol, I just sent my girlfriend a letter of a drawing i did for her yesterday and even though it only has to travel about 80 miles down state here in the US. it's so cool to see just how much work goes into the delivery of that special letter, being a EX Amazon worker, I understand the shipping process, but I never knew how U.S.P.S. does it and I'm sure it's not too different than this video here! great work and thank you so much to all the wonderful workers that are in charge of these special deliveries ❤.
Lovely, we watched it with my son and daughter after reading a book about a postcard. They asked how was it working to send a postcard in old days. We watched your videos and saw that you are able to combine technology with old way of communication. Thank you for sharing.
My friend is still waiting for an letter that I sent about six months ago... "24 hours" is a very long period of time in UK
Wow from where to where?
I sent one to my niece the day before Thanksgiving & it never came. She's only eleven miles away. Absolutely unbelievable.
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🧕🏽₲ɾɑղԵ𓃹 you know they have a limit
Has it arrived yet
@@JanvisHG still?
This video was super cute glad I watched it. Thanks for explaining the process! ❤
Grandma looks really cute tho hihi
Love receiving letters and packages 📦 in mail. I
Is there a different process for international mail like sending a letter from London to New York City?
It goes together with ordinary letters and gets sorted by the machine as an international, and sent on to the airport. (Unless it's a special, then it's sent separately in a green bag from the post office).
@TheRenaissanceman65 Actually, foreign mail get sorted by the machines too, which is an easier process because RM only has to sort them by country names. However, 5 countries (USA, Canada, Australia, China, India) have paid Royal Mail to sort mail for them, so mail for these 5 countries get sorted by postcode/province/state/territory before they have even left the mail centres.
Omggg this was so cuteee and I love the music !
That's not the exact point in watching this 😅
Wow wonderful work done! :)
When I on holiday I write postcard
Magic! :)
Postman is a time traveller
I started with postal mail since 1986 , my first letter was to BBC and after with 68 countries in the world, like Brazil Uk Indonesia ......... untill 2013 I stopped because no one want answer me, the people who wrote me betwen 18 to 90 years old about 600 people, I have 1400 stamps and postcards from the world especially Germany and UK Nostalgia!
3:37 Such a sad postcard, with just the address written on it :-(
might be more of pictured centered
Excited to go here in a week
So wholesome
Always was so curious about this...:)
All that sorting and busy machines it looks a fun job
Amazing!!!
Well done Royal Mail. Bravo ….📮
What an incredible accent! Thanks for subtitles. I wonder how do they understand each other.
Quite interesting :)
Cute!!
Just what I'd like to see :-)
Happy birthday
This was in my classroom
Missdelivered mails gave me anxiety
I do wonder about the journey of a letter especially when it takes 21 f....n days to get from Wollongong to Auckland ,NZ.That is by air-mail and by way it is a 3 hour 15min., flight. so can somebody explain.???
Good luck finding a postbox that has a 6pm collection nowadays. Note also the "not known at this address" written on the TV Licensing letter in the postbox too…
Machine can tell if a letter is first or second class but they don't have one to sort letters into the same address so some poor old bugger has to manually do it by hand lol
i love it its so cool
Thanx... This video helped me a lot in my project...Please always post such videos...
The advert was wix.com and it said forget about this video you are about to watch and l was like excuse me this is for school work why should i? (idk why we needed to watch this but ok)
Journey of a letter that doesn’t get nicked.
Interesting 😃😉
When it arrives to the local sorting office parcels are manually sorted!
lucky for me i have a local post office love these guys
I like The Mailbox🙂🙂🙂
👍👍
If the postcode is unclear or obscured, does the intelligent mail system put it in a separate pile to be checked by a person?
That’s why there is delay lines on the machine, in that time it chooses where it goes and what to print, and if it can’t read the whole letter it will be sent to a central office where people try to figure it out! If it’s not done in time it’ll do to an eject or refers box
This just made me paranoid that my letter from the UK to Germany won’t arrive (will get lost) ://
I’ll update in a week ?
i’m super late its been a month BUT IT ARRIVED SAFELY !!
Glad to hear it haha!
heeyy!! im also waiting for my international letter to come,, do u need to pay for those once u receive it?
@@a_sainzzz You don't, don't worry. Royal Mail just has a lot of delays right now because of the whole coronavirus situation.
son chaeyoung squad
At 2:18 can be seen the LEGO rubber-outer.
A great system worth watching.
it sucks so much
Looks like they sent the card round the corner . How long does it take when you’re sending it from say scotland to Wales?
Just add lorry travel time
You can do it in a day overnight with first class pretty sure. They have trains for that sort of thing.
im here cause i need to see where my check they put in the mail
Nice video
Can you show the video about the machines braking down and how the letters gets ripped apart in to pieces as the process is very fast and if 1 letter will get stuck at least a hundred will get ripped off, that would be interesting to see.
Paul JJ Yikes that shade Paul
@TheRenaissanceman65 how is that silly? it happens a lot. Over 14 million letters a year are destroyed like this
@TheRenaissanceman65 in the US (which I’m not from) they annually lose 8.8 BILLION letters
@TheRenaissanceman65 so there’s your evidence. Just do research it’s not that hard
@TheRenaissanceman65 well what do you want me to give. Just. Research.
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Does Postnord do the same thing?
I mailed two letters two days ago. They were going to two of the teachers I had when I was in elementary school, which were a guidance counselor and a music teacher. In my letters, I told my guidance counselor that I'm sorry for lying to her and I told my music teacher that I'm sorry for calling him evil. They still haven't written back yet. They're probably outraged at me.
Aawe, probably not! The apology note most likely helped them forgive you. 💗
@StephieGsrEvolution Well, Mrs. Mallam (the guidance counselor) called the police department right after she got my letter and 50 text messages and emails. A cop came over to my house and talked to me. He was very nice, handsome, and understanding. Mr. Peters (the music teacher) still hasn't written back to me. Now I'm finished writing a letter to a guy I went to elementary school with. His name is Matt. Matt was a huge fan of presidents and sports and still is today. Matt even said that he wanted to become the president of the United States when he grew up.
@@hannahduggan3599 yeah, it probably wasn't the letter, but 50 texts and emails that made it worse. 😰
Maybe just chill and try to look foward to making new memories!
Stop being a liar !!
@@mensax8054I am not a liar. I wrote letters to more people I have known since elementary school. Not one person wrote back.
How does the machine read the postcode, it can be dirty handwriting.
I wonder how some letters get to my house when it's extremely hard to make out my address when a specific person hand writes it 🤣
MY LAST TWO PARCELS WERE BOTH LOST, SO THE INTELLIGENT MACHINE CAN'T BE MUCH GOOD !!! TOTALLY LOST FAITH IN ROYAL MAIL, AN ABSOLUTE JOKE !!!
my last parcel also lost.....
Thats how it used to be.....!
Always like the handwritten letters more than typed and emails. Anyone here to swap a letter/postcard?
How long my letter in delivery from Jubilee MC to London Victoria Delivery Office!?
that looks like mount pleasant ?
Why is it put through the sorting machine then cased? It was already in delivery order!
No packages on that walking route?
How does this guy park on double yellows I don't get it?
Letter I sent to my girlfriend should have arrived at her house 2 weeks ago. :(
Is this similar to how the United States processes mail?
Amanda S no unfortunately it isn’t
They chuck em
This video by The United States Postal Service should answer your questions
ua-cam.com/video/WX16-52bHvg/v-deo.html
Almost except depending on the distance it takes one or two weeks for a letter to be delivered. And mail carriers sort out their own letters and parcels the clerks used to at one point, not anymore.
II ORDERD STUFF WITH WRONG POSTCODE BUT RIGHT ADRESS WILL IT STILL COME !!
Journey of a letter, is that a joke, from post box to sorting office where it sits for weeks, than when they find it onwards to the sorting office where again it sits again for weeks until they lose it
mailbox 📫 on my desk
Could you show us where the postmen open Christmas cards, steal any money within, throw the envelope away and repeat, ad infinitum? Tell us how a RM postman is sacked, every single day of every single year, for theft. Tell us why my postman admits he needs glasses but fails to wear them, so he delivers other people's mail to me and God knows where mine goes. Many thanks.
Bad apples exist. So what? RM needs to improve but who's perfect?
@@HusseinDoha I'm not talking of bad apples.
I'm telling you I don't know any other business that employs so many thieves.
The internal RM monthly magazine has a list of around 30 ex-employees sacked every month for stealing and those are only the ones they caught. Cess-pit.
@@seankirby2580 Exaggerating much, don't ever send money in a card, the posties gets the blame if it goes missing but it's much more likely that the mail centre staff have nicked it.
Omg. Sean, have you heard the story of the mailman that hoarded over fifty bags of mail in his shed? Totally abhorrent time we live in.
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This guy makes the same anti-Royal Mail comments in loads of places.
Mailtime
Mailtime
Mailtime
Mailtime
MAILTIME!!!
Customers like mail carriers who deliver mail like this - ua-cam.com/video/Ran-g-yUajc/v-deo.html
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Lol he he ha ha x
Do we pay ?
I want to post
So when my mail is picked up from a blue box I dropped at 11 am . When does it actually begin its journey
Our RED boxes have the collection time on the box, so that is the expected time when the driver will arrive to empty the box. Then, the journey to your Mail's destination begins. Once the driver has emptied all of the boxes on his route, he returns to the processing centre, where all the collected mail begins to be processed and sorted.
Royal Mail is now becoming a gig economy job with brutal workloads and conditions 😢 just a race to the bottom now
People call or chat nowadays. Less letters means less money 😢
I just realized that postal services will completely die within 5 years all over the globe, so I sent 2 letters last week and now I'm going to start postcrossing while it is still possible.
@@harryweiss4669junk mail is a massive source of revenue for Royal Mail, who plead poverty and the CEO Simon Thompson left with a 700,000 pounds pay off 😂😂😂😂
Unless you are sending to Italy. And then the post will take months to get to its final destination. Italian postal service has to be the worst in the world. Appalling service and attitude if trying to chase up your delivery.
in USA a guy put a match inside
DID U SEE THE LETTER BECAUSE IT GREW A BALLOON AND THEN IT GOT SENDED
I didn't realize that CFC machines were so slow. 20-24k an hour would be impossible at my facility! It's so interesting to see the differences though~
Yestu day
Ups watching this 👁👃👁
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Wait so you guys don’t wear gloves getting the mail?
I agree, I and my colleagues have found alsorts when removing letters from a postbox.
3:41 Why is he not putting the letters into the perstop tray incorrectly? Upside down facing the barcode on the tray and not side ways, I feel he needs training.
Why are those Vans diesel rather than electric?
Majority of vans are diesel and presuming the miles these vans go on a daily diesel lasts much longer
They are starting to use electric vans.
Royal Mail, and US Post ???
What?
I'm here to see how Royal Mail keep 'losing' my orders!!
same, the process looks simple, maybe i shouldn't have ordered so close to xmas, and maybe it wasn't the best idea for the ebay seller to plaster his business name all over the package which pretty much screamed "Woohoo, expensive pokemon cards inside". but i was expecting it to be simple as cards are one of the easiest things to sort it seems. i've learnt to start splitting the orders up, not as environmentally friendly but it seems to get delivered without fail when it's not worth losing.
Employee Billie Jean Boone
They forgot to show my favourite part in the process where the postman tears open some of the envelopes to check for cash 💔
most likely the sorting machine did that due to poor quality of the envelope`s glue...
@@misscg367 sorting machine must have very sticky robot fingers then to remove money from the insides of cards
@@MT-np4ek check this reply few rows down:
Paul JJ
3 years ago
Can you show the video about the machines braking down and how the letters gets ripped apart in to pieces as the process is very fast and if 1 letter will get stuck at least a hundred will get ripped off, that would be interesting to see.
@@misscg367 I can remember using the old franking machines and if there was cash in the envelope the machine would often break the envelope to shreds,that's why people are told never to put money in an envelope.
@@paullittle5200 True but some people like to think posties are thieves :) They don`t know the reality of the job...
"As a postman, I'm above the law so I ignore double yellow lines and park wherever I like." (See at 0:59)
Letter Box yea you are
He is parking to collect the post for a few minutes, as an employee in a mark vehicle there is nothing illegal about it, would you rather prefer him to walk 100 yards or so?
Letter Box There’s a difference between parking and just stopping
Yes you can, even if you are not a postman for loading purposes
I believe Royal Mail are legally able to park on double yellow lines for postboxes and deliveries if there are no other options.
Am looking work in royal mail
Who is here from Idea?
Royal Mail is not what it used to be, nowadays they are absolutely useless! I have had so many issues with them and was compensated with a book of 1st class stamps! Don’t even waste my time complaining anymore
you forgot the bit where the royal mail employee opened the letter to see if there was any cash in it then dumped the card
Close them all down. Email is faster and it can't get lost or damaged. Or even stolen
Letters are reducing considerably mainly because of electronic mail and parcels are taking over now.