Post Office sorting warehouse hub

Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.

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Sorted letters are grouped in a drawer at Royal Mail's giant warehouse at the DIRFT logistics park in Daventry, Northamptonshire England. Raised from its neighbours is an Air Mail letter addressed to someone called Rodrigues and with stamps if its unknown country. Each letter faces the same direction for ease of viewing in this enormous complex where some of the UK's 82 million items pass through. Royal Mail handles some 82 million posted items a day. They have a statutory duty to provide a delivery service to 27 million addresses in the UK for letters and for parcels weighing up to 20kg. Six days a week they deliver daily to all addresses in the UK and provides a collection service from 115,000 Post Boxes, 16,000 Post Offices, businesses and organizations throughout the UK and distributed through 72 mail centres and 100 distribution centres.