letter sorting
Arranging postal deliveries
Letter sorting is the process of organizing mail or correspondence, typically by destination, recipient, or category.
Postal workers perform letter sorting to route items efficiently: The new machine handles letter sorting at twice the speed.
The term also applies to alphabetizing—arranging items by their initial letters: Letter sorting put the Andersons at the top of the list.
- postmarkDated mailing imprint
- alphabetizationSorting by letter sequence
- postal networkSystem for delivering correspondence
- mailbagSack for letters
- batchingProcessing in sets
zip code · bulk mail · first class mail · categorization · conveyor belt · indexing · parcel · junk mail · return to sender · post office box · barcode scanner · sequencing · grouping · courier · prioritization · labeling · envelope · dispatch center
- Railway Mailmail train, mail car, mail clerk, mail pouch, mail bag
- mailmail, email, envelope, postcard, stamp
- descramblingunscrambling, rearranging, reordering, word puzzles
- unscramblinganagrams, jumbles, word jumble, scrambled text