“Monday night will be our heavy night” predicted Michael P. Deignan, the Teterboro plant manager. “It’s Christmas cards. They (customers) do it on Sunday night.”
Large containers dumping packages onto a conveyor belt operated by Gloria Barrios of Rochelle Park.
The letter size mail is loaded into machines that scan and sort it at a rate of 39,000 envelopes per hour.
Packages take a different route. Smaller items are dumped onto another conveyor belt, where loaders stand with what look like a shepherd’s staff, nudging items along.
Larger, bulky packages dubbed “Nemos,” or “non-machinable outsides,” are herded into a fenced-in area called the bullpen, where employees wearing ring scanners on their index fingers log the addresses and sort them by town.
Everything then gets shipped out to places like the South Hackensack post office, where carriers were busy sorting them further onto their individual routes.
source:Postal scramble: USPS races to keep up with holiday mail