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| − | The yellow striped red van carefully pulls back to dock at gate 17. Two Royal Mail employees | + | The yellow striped red van carefully pulls back to dock at gate 17. Two Royal Mail employees—one leaning on his Pallet jack's handle, the other taking advantage of the open gate to smoke a cigarette—and a supervisor, wait for the driver to open the van's back door. Inside, a wooden box is securely strapped to a pallet. |
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| + | A loud rumbling noise echoes throughout the facility as letters tumble inside a gigantic drum called the ''Segragator''. The supervisor take pictures as the two employees cut the metal straps then dismantle the wooden box which has been lowered next to an oversize sorting table. The crews of experienced ''sorters'' which has been assembled by management for the unusual task are fascinated as they discover the rusty trunk. The supervisor moves in to lift the lid. The trunk is filled with letters, most of them intact. | ||
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| + | One by one, the content of the trunk is carefully laid out on the table and each letter is photographed—recto/verso. The letters are then placed in a different section on the table according to their [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code]. As all mail should be destined to Australia—the [[The_Zytglogge_Mission#DAY.2C_GULF_OF_ADEN.2C_ARABIAN_SEA|sunken ship]] was bound for Sidney—letters are sorted by addressers. The first section handles the UK and Europe excluding Russia, another, The United States and Canada; a third one, the rest of the Americas and Africa; a fourth one for Asia excluding Russia, and finally the fifth one for the ex-USSR and for [countries which have disappeared http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-3]. | ||
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DAWN, LONDON CENTRAL MAIL CENTER
The yellow striped red van carefully pulls back to dock at gate 17. Two Royal Mail employees—one leaning on his Pallet jack's handle, the other taking advantage of the open gate to smoke a cigarette—and a supervisor, wait for the driver to open the van's back door. Inside, a wooden box is securely strapped to a pallet.
MAIN SORTING ROOM, LONDON CENTRAL MAIL CENTER
A loud rumbling noise echoes throughout the facility as letters tumble inside a gigantic drum called the Segragator. The supervisor take pictures as the two employees cut the metal straps then dismantle the wooden box which has been lowered next to an oversize sorting table. The crews of experienced sorters which has been assembled by management for the unusual task are fascinated as they discover the rusty trunk. The supervisor moves in to lift the lid. The trunk is filled with letters, most of them intact.
One by one, the content of the trunk is carefully laid out on the table and each letter is photographed—recto/verso. The letters are then placed in a different section on the table according to their [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code]. As all mail should be destined to Australia—the sunken ship was bound for Sidney—letters are sorted by addressers. The first section handles the UK and Europe excluding Russia, another, The United States and Canada; a third one, the rest of the Americas and Africa; a fourth one for Asia excluding Russia, and finally the fifth one for the ex-USSR and for [countries which have disappeared http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-3].