Letter (message) - The Letter-delivering Process

The Letter-delivering Process

Here is how a letter gets from the sender to the recipient:

1. Sender writes letter and places it in an envelope on which the recipient's address is written in the centre front of the envelope. Sender ensures that the recipient's address includes the Zip or Postal (if applicable) code and often he includes his return address on the envelope.
2. Sender buys a postage stamp and attaches it to the front of the envelope on the top right corner on the front of the envelope.
3. Sender puts the letter in a postbox.
4. The national postal service for the sender's country (e.g., the Royal Mail, UK; US Postal Service, US; Australia Post in Australia; or Canada Post in Canada) empties the postbox and takes all the contents to the regional sorting office.
5. The sorting office then sorts each letter by address and postcode and delivers the letters destined for a particular area to that area's post office. Letters addressed to a different region are sent to that region's sorting office, to be sorted further.
6. The local post office dispatches the letters to their delivery personnel who deliver them to the appropriate addresses.

This whole process, depending on how far the sender is from the recipient, can take anywhere from a day to 3–4 weeks. International mail is sent via trains and planes to other countries.