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20030724 – USPS – worker keying in ZIP codes – walkman – 100-0025

Image by Rev. Xanatos Satanicos Bombasticos (ClintJCL)
I’d say this is one of the most boring jobs here, but actually: Every postal job is boring. Fortunately, they rotate people in shifts, so people generally only do things like this for 30 minutes at a time.

Of course, 6 people do it at once, and are graphed in realtime for supervisors to watch.

Keying in ZIP codes for small parcels — while having your speed monitored in realtime with an on-screen graph comparing you to the other 5 people doing the same thing. Fortunately most people here only do this in 30-minute shifts.

Also, you can wear portable music players. That’s pretty cool.

BACKSTORY: We got to go on a ‘field trip’ at work, driving back from L’Enfant Plaza, Washington D.C. (where I worked) to Merrifield,VA (very close to where I live). I got to take pictures. I don’t think that we really used them that much, except as a secondary reference for mail sorting machine control panels and such.

workers.
keying.
hat, mail, walkman.

USPS, Merrifield, Virginia.

July 24, 2003.

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