Sorting mail

Sorting mail is very similar to one of the things I did when I worked at Securitas. There I stood at a machine that did a security check on bills, and sorted them and put them in stacks of a hundred. The finished stacks was then taken out of the machine and a paper collar was put around them. The work was totally mind numbing. And sometimes the entire day was spent at that machine. Sorting mail is somewhat the opposite. Stacks of mail is sorted according to the street address in a rack that has about a hundred different compartments. It is a task that quickly becomes a zen thing, the rack is almost memorized and the letters goes into the compartments as soon as the address is read. Luckily the day is not spent doing only that, the mail has to be sorted again according to the order in which the people lives at the individual address, then it is time to get on the bike and start running up stairs. This change of tasks is a really welcomed change compared to the Securitas gig that I once had.