# Mailbox issue **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 8, 2013, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbox-issue/646482 "2013-01-08T08:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2013, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbox-issue/646482/3 "2013-01-08T10:11:23Z")
> [@Is There Anything I Can Do About A Lousy Mailman?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-i-can-do-about-a-lousy-mailman/481098/9): > > Can I hijack for question? Nearly 40 years ago I was a summer sub carrier, and did lots of different routes. This was long before barcodes and automatic sorting of addresses. They never let me sort the mail into delivery order, which was good since I would have started the route about noon some days. What’s the process nowadays? Back then there were little cubbyholes, two addresses per, and you sorted left or right. How much is automatically sorted into delivery order, and how much is manual? Does the OCR sometimes miss things, or are Ss and 5s sometimes confused? … Doesn’t seem like an actual hijack, i.e. Do carriers even do any sorting these days? (My Uncle was a carrier into the 80s (moved up to working on the (much hated) Zip+4 thingy) and his wife into the early 90s, so I do know carriers were sorting routs up til then.) CMC --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mailbox-issue/646482)._