Post office field trip

Yesterday we went on a field trip with our homeschool support group to the Post Office in Opelika. It actually was very interesting. We got to see how they sort the mail. Did you know that they put the letters into a machine and the machine takes a picture, reads it, and sends to where it is supposed to go? Never even read by a human. It even sorts it by where the address is located so the carrier doesn't have to. And it does it so fast! 36,000 letters per hour! You should see this machine work.

After we saw the machine, we went upstairs and saw where the post office boxes are and even got to ride in the huge elevator they use for mail. The pictures above are when they allowed the kids to cancel some letters (post mark them). They each got to but Celestial was so short I had to hold her up so I didn't get a picture of her. Anyway, even I learned a lot about how a post office works. We really enjoyed it!

Then we got to finish the day by picking up a Christmas tree from base (they have free trees for the military), taking the kids to tennis, then going home to decorate the tree. We had quite the busy, fun day.