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224.22

Office Time -- Preparation

Handbook M-41, TL-4, 03-01-98 Update With Postal Bulletin Revisions Through April 5, 2001

• 224.22 Push the top letter slightly forward with the left thumb so that the right thumb and index finger can grasp the outer edge of letter. The left thumb serves as a feeder.

• 224.23 Read the address only. Develop sight recognition of addresses as whole units.
  THIS: 11958 State Street or 482 West Main
  NOT THIS: 1-1-9-5-8 State Street; 4-8-2 West Main
   
• 224.24 Recall the correct separation and place the letter on shelf at right or left side of separation to correspond with number.
   
• 224.25 As letter is pushed fully into separation, position eyes on next letter and push next letter forward with left thumb. The right hand then returns to pick up this letter for placing into the proper separation.
   
• 224.26 Follow the same procedure in the distribution of each letter, and coordination of eyes, hands, fingers, and memory will improve until the process becomes automatic.
   
• 225 Casing Magazines, Papers, Flats, etc.
   
• 225.1 Two-Bundle System
   
• 225.11 Review line of travel for as many flat separations as correspond with two or three rows of letter separations.
   
• 225.12 Sort the flats into the proper separations -- the memorized streets and numbers -- and sort the balance by streets, on the ledge.