Examples of sorter

• During the last two years forty-four male sorters were recruited from the open competitions and 382 from the limited competitions.

• The separation of the first-class mail from the second-class mail in the sorting office depends on the intelligence and skill of one or two sorters.

• The work given out to the women sorters during the ordinary period of duty is of a mixed nature.

• Two hundred and twenty-one appointments were made to the sorter's class in 1909.

• Boy messengers will not be appointed as sorters without passing the usual examintion.

• The direct line of promotion for sorters is to overseerships and thence to higher supervising posts.

• The maximum number of temporary sorters to be appointed to permanent posts is 200.

• A large number of new appointments for sorters has already been created during the current year.