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Location where postal operators bring mail for sorting
for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, which may be a direct delivery or sent onwards to another regional or local sorting office, or
Sorting_office
Royal Mail sorting office
Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC) is a sorting office for inbound and outbound international mail operated by Royal Mail. Located close to
Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre
Heathrow_Worldwide_Distribution_Centre
National postal service of Iceland
Post). A large purpose-built postal sorting warehouse was constructed at Höfðabakki in 1998. The sorting office in Ármúli later became the headquarters
Íslandspóstur
Postal service company in the United Kingdom
letter sorting machines (ILSMs) in the UK, which were installed in the mid-1980s and early 1990s to improve the speed and efficiency of sorting and delivering
Royal_Mail
Closed railway system in London
built by the Post Office with assistance from the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, to transport mail between sorting offices. Inspired
London_Post_Office_Railway
Customer service facility of a postal system
processing mail is instead known as a sorting office or delivery office, which may have a large central area known as a sorting or postal hall. Integrated facilities
Post_office
Code in the post office numbering or post code system used by India Post
two, indicates the sorting district within that zone. The final three digits are assigned to individual post offices within the sorting district. There are
Postal_Index_Number
Main post office for London between 1829 and 1910
Martin's Le Grand in 1829. As well as functioning as a post office and sorting office, the building contained the main offices and facilities for the
General_Post_Office,_London
Sorting office in London, England
optical character recognition for sorting purposes with the installation of a machine. The art-deco Letter Sorting Office building remains in use, albeit
Mount_Pleasant_Mail_Centre
Building in Winchmore Hill, London, England
The Winchmore Hill Post Office Sorting Office at Station Road, Winchmore Hill, London, is a grade II listed building with Historic England. It was designed
Winchmore Hill Post Office Sorting Office
Winchmore_Hill_Post_Office_Sorting_Office
Postal railcar in the United Kingdom
A Post Office sorting van is a type of rail vehicle built for use in a Travelling Post Office. British Rail built ninety-six of these vehicles between
Post_Office_sorting_van
Town and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England
version called the May Manea Mania. March Royal Mail sorting office (previously a full post office) dates from 1936. It is unusual in that it is one of
March,_Cambridgeshire
Uruguayan-American stalker (1975–1996)
and contacted Scotland Yard, who located the bomb in a London postal sorting office. The parcel was safely detonated and Björk was unharmed. Ricardo López
Ricardo_López_(stalker)
Postal system in the United Kingdom
(which were then conveyed by letter-carriers to the central office in Lombard Street for sorting and despatch); similar arrangements were also put in place
General_Post_Office
Grade II* buildings in London, United States
the City of London was London's main Post Office for most of the 20th century and also the main sorting office for the London EC postal area and for overseas
King_Edward_Building
specify a particular smaller region (originally the number of a regional sorting office, there was one in every county), and the last two are the number of
Postal_codes_in_Poland
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
Borough of Bromley. Mail for this area is sorted at the Royal Mail Sorting Office in Rochester, which also sorts all mail from the adjoining ME postcode
TN_postcode_area
Postal district in Leinster, Ireland
the state, the 1929-30 Post Office Guide lists the following Dublin City offices within the area: Pearse Street Sorting Office was opened in 1925 as the
Dublin_2
Written message from one to another
postbox and transports all the contents to the local sorting office. The sorting office then sorts each letter by address and postcode and sends the letters
Letter_(message)
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
Hassocks, Henfield, Lancing, Shoreham-by-Sea and Steyning). The main sorting office is at the Gatwick Mail Centre in Crawley. The approximate coverage of
BN_postcode_area
Shopping mall in Birmingham, England
Mail's main sorting office building for Birmingham (hence its current name) which was completed in 1970, replacing the Victorian head post office (now Victoria
Mailbox_Birmingham
Royal Mail sorting office in Wales
Cardiff Mail Centre (also known as Penarth Road Sorting Office) is the main headquarters and sorting office for Royal Mail in Cardiff, Wales, and one of
Cardiff_Mail_Centre
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
west London, plus a very small part of south Hertfordshire. The main sorting office is in Greenford (Green Park Way) and the area served includes all of
HA_postcode_area
Area of central London, England
Clerkenwell is home to City University and the Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant sorting office. It includes the neighbourhoods of Farringdon and Exmouth Market. Goswell
Clerkenwell
surrounding districts, without the mail having first been sent to a regional sorting office and forwarding. After the first RSO was established in 1855, over 2000
Railway_Sub_Office
Sorting algorithm
different sorting algorithm, or by recursively applying the bucket sorting algorithm. It is a distribution sort, a generalization of pigeonhole sort that allows
Bucket_sort
Postal system methods for routing mail
Mail sorting refers to the methods by which postal systems determine how and where to route mail for delivery. Once accomplished by hand, mail sorting is
Mail_sorting
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
London and north-west Kent. The main sorting office in Dartford ceased operating in 2012 and became a Delivery Office. The area served includes most of the
DA_postcode_area
Ballinlough sorting office, covered the south-east, Cork 3 (from Gurranabraher) covered the north-west while Cork 4 (from Togher sorting office) covered
Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland
Postal_addresses_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
parts of northwestern East Sussex (including Forest Row). The main sorting office is in Crawley (Gatwick Mail Centre), and the area served includes parts
RH_postcode_area
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
small part of south Suffolk (including Bures and Sudbury). The main sorting office was in Colchester but as at 2021 there was no Mail Centre in Colchester
CO_postcode_area
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
well as a small part of north-east Surrey. The main sorting office is in Sutton. Outgoing mail is sorted at Croydon Mail Centre in CR postcode area. The area
SM_postcode_area
2009 film by Ken Loach
Bishop. It follows a middle-aged postman who, working for the Manchester sorting office, is going through a dreadful crisis. The film had its world premiere
Looking_for_Eric
2019 film by Michael Engler
Railway with Pickering terminus representing King's Cross. The Royal Mail Sorting Office Coach was borrowed from the Great Central Railway at Loughborough. Production
Downton_Abbey_(film)
Rented mailbox at a post office
are often little more than pigeon-holes in the secure section of a sorting office and are accessible only by staff. In such cases, the renter of the PO
Post_office_box
Development in London, England
rebranded as the Hilton London Paddington. The Royal Mail closed their sorting office in Praed Street in March 2010 and moved the counter service to West
Paddington_Waterside
Topics referred to by the same term
postcode area, a region in southern England served by Bournemouth postal sorting office Bahrain (ISO 3166-1 country code BH) .bh, the Internet country code
BH
Offence in English criminal law
quantity of salt. Some of this salt escaped from the envelope at a postal sorting office, which was closed as a precaution so that tests could be carried out
Public_nuisance
Assembly of written information into a standard order
be sorted, although it can slow down sorting significantly. For example, Microsoft Windows does this when sorting file names. The underlying sort order
Collation
Computational task of sorting whole numbers
integer sorting is the algorithmic problem of sorting a collection of data values by integer keys. Algorithms designed for integer sorting may also often
Integer_sorting
Mail sorting machine
multi-position mail sorting machine, built by the Dutch heavy industrial company, Werkspoor. The name is an acronym for "TRANsport and SORting, Marchand and
Transorma
Sorting algorithm
Pigeonhole sorting is a sorting algorithm that is suitable for sorting lists of elements where the number n of elements and the length N of the range
Pigeonhole_sort
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
cover parts of southern Greater London and north-east Surrey. The main sorting office is in Croydon, and the area served includes most of the London Borough
CR_postcode_area
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
postcode area, the letters UB are an abbreviation of Uxbridge. The main sorting office is in Greenford (Green Park Way) and the area served includes much of
UB_postcode_area
Public University in Lucerne, Switzerland
university main building on the site of Lucerne's former main postal sorting office, which had recently been vacated. Building work on the new university
University_of_Lucerne
Street in the City of London
headquarters staff (1894). The old General Post Office building remained in use as a sorting office and a public post office until 1911, when it was demolished and
St._Martin's_Le_Grand
Topics referred to by the same term
England Mount Pleasant Mail Centre, Clerkenwell, London, the largest sorting office operated by Royal Mail Mount Pleasant, Arkansas Mount Pleasant, Delaware
Mount_Pleasant
London-based arts organisation
included a condemned council flat (Seizure, 2008–2010), a former postal sorting office (Küba, 2005), a vacated general plumbing store (An Area of Outstanding
Artangel
Mail sorter system
formerly rural population spread out the sorting and delivery of mail, now sixty percent of all the mail was being sorted at only ten processing stations, leading
Route_Reference_Computer
Building in Islington, Greater London, England
Government, and from 1943, following the destruction of Mount Pleasant sorting office in an air raid, the parcels depot was moved to the hall. The hall then
Business_Design_Centre
American journalist
people to become sick; two of whom died due to the exposure in the sorting office. The main reaction to these events was fear that the deaths were the
Death_of_Robert_Stevens
Independent agency of the U.S. federal government
reductions, and halt the removal of mail-sorting machines and collection boxes. However, 95 percent of the mail sorting machines that were planned for removal
United_States_Postal_Service
Former railway station in England
Army Post Office was established next to the station. In May 1948 in that disused sorting office adjacent to the station, 90 people began sorting 150 tons
Sutton_Park_railway_station
Intraorganizational mail delivery
destination. Mail services center Digital mailroom Post office Postal services Mail Sorting office "Central Distribution". surrey.ac.uk. Archived from the
Internal_mail
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
District Sorting Office was the western terminus of the London Post Office Railway, which ran 6.5 miles (10.5 km) to the Eastern District Office, at Whitechapel
W_postcode_area
French journalist and essayist (1938–2025)
1970. Having obtained a degree in history, he started work at a postal sorting office, then at a printing works. He soon moved into journalism and was sent
Jean-François_Kahn
Bank transfer codes in the UK and Ireland
in this fashion, with the bank identifier taking precedence. Six-digit "sorting codes" were introduced in a staggered process from 1957 as the banking
Sort_code
System for transporting documents and other small packages
sorted by hand, but it is increasingly sorted by automatic sorting machines. The main dilemma faced by postal operators when organizing the sorting stage
Commercial in Birmingham, England
1889—1891 and operated as the city's head post office until 1972, when administrative and sorting office facilities were moved to a new, larger building
Victoria_Square_House
Village in Cumbria, England
Ambleside, The Lakes School, is located in the village, as is the postal sorting office for the area. Troutbeck Bridge takes its name from where the road crosses
Troutbeck_Bridge
with letter-coding systems, where machines assist in sorting. A variation of automated sorting uses optical character recognition (OCR) to read printed
Postcodes in the United Kingdom
Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom
Postcode area within the United Kingdom
all intents a section of Watford sorting office; up until 2000, all mail for WD2 was cut and tipped at Watford office. In order to change this, new codes
WD_postcode_area
1962 British film by Robert Lynn
office. However, after his first day in the big city, he is soon in trouble. In the main sorting office, he succeeds in beating the new mail sorting machine
Postman's_Knock_(film)
British hotel chain
which are converted historic buildings, including a prison, a postal sorting office, a church and a building once used as a brothel. As of January 2017
Malmaison_(hotel_chain)
Business district in England
students, directly to the east of the station. It will replace an empty sorting office building, formerly operated by Royal Mail but derelict since 1997. The
Bristol Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone
Bristol_Temple_Quarter_Enterprise_Zone
British trade union recognition dispute
allowed to collect mail from the sorting office. Ward still applied for an ex parte injunction against both the Post Office and the UPW on 5 November, which
Grunwick_dispute
Village in Northamptonshire, England
for the branch closure. In 2016 the Post Office in the village, a local sorting office and main Post Office, closed and a small branch counter opened
Earls_Barton
Postcode area in {{{subdivision_name1}}}, United Kingdom
railway ran 10.5 kilometres (6.5 mi) to the Paddington Head District Sorting Office. The E20 postcode has been used fictionally in television soap-opera
E_postcode_area
Museum in London, England
Pleasant sorting office in Clerkenwell, a museum store in Loughton, Essex and The Museum of the Post Office in the Community, located about the post office in
Postal_Museum,_London
Disused railway station in West Yorkshire, England
Royal Mail sorting office, later partially redeveloped as the West Point residential development; the remaining half of the former sorting office site was
Leeds_Central_railway_station
Kingdom by age. This table can be sorted to display prime ministers of the United Kingdom by name, order of office, date of birth, age at appointment
List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom by age
List_of_prime_ministers_of_the_United_Kingdom_by_age
Human settlement in England
Old Farm Avenue allotments. Some farm buildings were next to Sidcup sorting office and included characteristic Kentish oast houses. Other landmarks are
Lamorbey
British actress and director
for two decades. Carroll was the founder of the OSO Arts Centre (Old Sorting Office) arts venue in Barnes. She died on 15 November 2018. Bellman and True
Anne_Carroll
Railway station in Essex, England
has been removed and the sidings were reduced to serve only a mail sorting office and building materials yard. The mail platform has been out of use for
Chelmsford_railway_station
Port and mixed-use complex in Istanbul
conspicuous of these was the Paket Postanesi, the old parcel sorting office, but the old Customs Office was also a very striking building. The project to develop
Galataport
Royal Air Force station in Greater London, England
becoming home to the British Forces Post Office, which moved to a newly constructed headquarters and sorting office on the site. Units currently based at
RAF_Northolt
Law enforcement branch of the Royal Mail
the sorting boards. They discovered the safe door open, and the floor littered with opened envelopes. The counter flap door of the sorting office was
Royal_Mail_Group_Security
Former government posts in Ireland
and a resident surveyor of the said general post-office; and also a comptroller of the sorting office thereof, to be appointed, made and constituted in
Postmasters General of Ireland
Postmasters_General_of_Ireland
1964 British film by Andrew L. Stone
Gardiner as security officer Karal Gardner as young woman Seamus Healy as sorting office foreman Liz Lanchbury as Basil's girlfriend John Lynch as man at elevator
Never_Put_It_in_Writing
British property group
Paddington Quarter, which is a £775m redevelopment of the former Royal Mail sorting office adjacent to Paddington Station. The company is developing King’s Place
Sellar_Property_Group
2009 Indian film
the letter after learning that it has been transferred to the postal sorting office in Bangalore and is scheduled to be delivered to the railway authorities
Circus_(2009_film)
Former railway station in England
parcels depot, which opened on 6 July 1970. Royal Mail constructed a sorting office on the opposite side of the main line and connected it to Mayfield with
Manchester Mayfield railway station
Manchester_Mayfield_railway_station
Road in Clerkenwell, London
buildings, close to Exmouth Market and the Royal Mail Mount Pleasant Sorting Office, were pulled down in the mid-1970s to be replaced by a multi-storey
Farringdon_Road
Area located on the border of Fulham and Chelsea, west London
pubs, cafés and small shops, including a printers. The Royal Mail sorting office is nearby as are four supermarkets, one of them large with a car park
Walham_Green
Irish writer, historian and activist
established by Alice Milligan and Ethna Carbery. He served at the main Postal Sorting Office in Mount Pleasant, London, from 1902 to 1913. Along with J. J. Walsh
P._S._O'Hegarty
Way in which Chinese characters are sorted into a sequence
of letters in an alphabet, and that makes the sorting job much more challenging. The orders or sorting methods of Chinese dictionaries are traditionally
Chinese_character_orders
Locality in Dublin, Ireland
station, located on the mentioned railway bridge, the Dublin 5 An Post sorting office and, at the northern edge, one of Artane's churches; Harmonstown is
Harmonstown
Workers' Institute in Tipton, England
used as a billiards hall until 1950, after which it became a postal sorting office until 1995. In 2004, the building was threatened by demolition due to
Cradley Heath Workers' Institute
Cradley_Heath_Workers'_Institute
Army Post Office on the Sovereign which was smaller. This caused him sorting difficulties as his report reflects: Scarcely had the sorting operation commenced
History of the British Army postal service
History_of_the_British_Army_postal_service
Historic site in Bath, Somerset
classes. During World War II it was used by the Admiralty as a postal sorting office and remained in their possession until the 1990s. In 1996 it was then
Empire_Hotel,_Bath
delivering 45,000 letters per hour from the sorting section, and a stamp cancelling machine capable of sorting and postmarking 25,000 letters per hour. Additionally
Malki_Issa_Addi
2006 British drama series
emotional storylines which will hook viewers in to their world. The sorting office is where the boys come together at the start of every day. They're a
Sorted_(TV_series)
Scotland international football goalkeeper
Stamford Bridge, near York. He then became a postman, saying, "The sorting office atmosphere was like a dressing room". In 1994, with his second wife
David_Harvey_(footballer)
Road in Notting Hill, London
Post Office, in Westbourne Grove, finally closed in a storm of controversy during early 2005. However, the Royal Mail retained its sorting office on the
Westbourne_Grove
1960 British comedy film by Gerald Thomas
with the Drayton Court Hotel visible in many scenes. The Royal Mail Sorting Office in Manor Road and the railway footbridge over the GWR out of West Ealing
Carry_On_Constable
Process to check the validity of physical mailing addresses
specifies the hierarchy of post sorting offices. The PAF does not mandate a ‘street’ but can include a subordinate sorting office name; these typically occur
Postal_address_verification
Mail sorting machine used by the US Postal Service
Bar Code Sorter (DBCS) is a mail sorting machine used primarily by the United States Postal Service. Introduced in 1990, these machines sort letters at
Delivery_Bar_Code_Sorter
Informal region in Dublin, Ireland
needed]: "Long before there were postal codes, the James's Street Postal Sorting Office looked after the Phoenix Park, because it was considered to be closer
Southside,_Dublin
and Karonga at the northern end of the lake. Chiromo was the main sorting office until after the Shire Highlands Railway was opened in 1908, when Limbe
Postage stamps and postal history of British Central Africa
Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_British_Central_Africa
Village in Tyne and Wear, England
by train. The station opened in 1836, and the Post Office two years later as a Railway Sorting Office. The line closed to passengers in May 1964, apart
Fence_Houses
SORTING OFFICE
SORTING OFFICE
Surname or Lastname
English (Somerset)
English (Somerset) : unexplained.
Boy/Male
German
Renowned Warrior's Son
Girl/Female
Muslim
Clean, Neat, Free from dirt
Male
Romanian
Romanian name derived from the word soare, SORIN means "sun."
Boy/Male
Latin
Strong; fortunate.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : patronymic from Bott.
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Clean neat, free from dirt
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places in Oxfordshire and West Sussex named Goring, from Old English GÄringas ‘people of GÄra’, a short form of the various compound names with the first element gÄr ‘spear’.German (Göring) : see Goering.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Clean; Neat; Free from Dirt
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Bengali, British, Christian, English, Indian
Springtime; Spring Season; Rapid Movement
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from either of two places called Worthing, in Sussex and Norfolk. The Norfolk place name is probably from Old English worðign ‘the enclosure’, while the Sussex one is derived from an unattested Old English personal name, Weorð, (from Old English weorð ‘worthy’) + -ingas ‘people of’.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : ethnic name from Old French Lohereng ‘man from Lorraine’ (see Lorraine).
Surname or Lastname
English
English : of uncertain origin. Early examples, as for example William Spring (Yorkshire 1280), all point to a personal name or nickname, perhaps going back to an Old English byname derived from the verb springan ‘to jump or leap’ (see Springer 1). Alternatively, it could be a topographic name from Middle English spring ‘young wood’, ‘spring’. Compare Springer. Reaney derives the surname from the word denoting the season, although the word is not attested in this sense until the 16th century, the usual Middle English word being lenten. Compare Lenz. The surname has also been established in Ireland (County Kerry) for several centuries.German : from Middle High German sprinc, Middle Low German sprink ‘spring’, ‘well’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived by a spring or well, or habitational name from Springe near Hannover.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Springer.John Spring emigrated from England and settled in Watertown, MA, in 1634.
Female
Romanian
Feminine form of Romanian Sorin, SORINA means "sun."
Surname or Lastname
English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire)
English (mainly Lancashire and Cheshire) : unexplained.Probably an altered form of German Dornig, which is probably a nickname for someone with a sharp tongue, from an adjectival derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German dorn ‘thorn’. The suffixes -ig and -ing were often interchanged in Pennsylvania German and elsewhere. The name may also refer to a sloe bush.
Girl/Female
Indian
Lively, Entertainer, From a stream or a Spring, The Spring season, The Spring season
Boy/Male
Norse
Son of Runolf Ulfsson.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Sartain.French : topographic name from a diminutive of sart, a reduced form of Old French essart ‘newly cleared and cultivated land’.Italian (Venetian) : variant of Sartini.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from (East, South, and, formerly, West) Harting in West Sussex, named with an unattested Old English byname Heort ‘hart’ + -ingas, a suffix denoting ‘family, dependants, or followers’.North German (also Härting) : patronymic from Hart or Hardt 2.German : habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria or from Hartingen, near Diepholz, Lower Saxony.
Female
English
English name derived from the season name, "spring," (Mar. 21 thru Jun. 21), derived from the verb spring, "to burst forth," from Proto-Indo-European *sprengh-, SPRING means "rapid movement."Â
SORTING OFFICE
SORTING OFFICE
Surname or Lastname
English and Irish (of Norman origin)
English and Irish (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Arcy in Manche, France, named from a Gaulish personal name (which, it has been suggested, may be akin to the Indo-European root ars- ‘bear’) + the locative suffix -acum.Irish : English surname adopted by bearers of the Gaelic surname Ó Dorchaidhe ‘descendant of the dark one’, from dorcha ‘dark’, ‘gloomy’. This Connacht name has fallen together with the Norman surname, which is certainly attested in Ireland, having been introduced there by Sir William D’Arcy and Sir John D’Arcy, who was appointed Chief Justiciar of Ireland in the 14th century.
Boy/Male
Tamil
The Sun
Girl/Female
Indian
Who Sees Good Things
Male
English
English unisex name derived from Middle English haven (Old English hæfen), HAVEN means "haven, refuge."
Boy/Male
Tamil
Nirvanin | நீரà¯à®µà®¨à¯€à®¨
Liberated
Girl/Female
Tamil
Modest
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Belongs to the Jujube Tree
Female
English
Pet form of English Minta, MINTY means "mint."Â
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian, Marathi, Sanskrit
Politeness; Modesty
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Janelle, JANEL means "God is gracious."
SORTING OFFICE
SORTING OFFICE
SORTING OFFICE
SORTING OFFICE
SORTING OFFICE
n.
The act of putting a foot to anything; also, that which is added as a foot; as, the footing of a stocking.
n.
Mortling.
n.
The morning of yesterday.
v.
Serving to part; dividing; separating.
a.
Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service.
n.
Wool plucked from a dead sheep; morling.
n.
A forming into tables; a setting down in order.
n.
An animal, as a sheep, dead of disease or privation; a mortling.
v.
Given when departing; as, a parting shot; a parting salute.
a.
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports.
n.
A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial.
n.
A darting away; a starting off or aside.
v. t.
To separate, as if by sifting or bolting; -- with out.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Sport
n.
A sifting, as of flour or meal.
a.
Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
n.
The act of placing in a pot; as, the potting of plants; the potting of meats for preservation.
n.
A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Sort
n.
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.