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The Postal Workers

posted a year ago by wt1963 (7)
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Question about the postal worker scene. They are obviously sorting letters, but what puzzles me is that on occasion they toss the letters into some sort of container overhead and some even toss them over their shoulder and the machine seems to suck the letters upward and into the trough.

What's going on there?

[–] PaladinNJ (21510) a year ago

Local versus out of district.

[–] strntz (12255) a year ago

And it is a suction tube to greatly speed up the process.

[–] nyctc7 (43614) a year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube

[–] TheArgentinian (7073) a year ago

I wonder if that sorting method still exists.