[meric]

"The machines which sort mail are pretty bad-ass. Not only can they sort by postcode, but also by address so the mail comes out in the order in which the mailman visits each building on his route."

Now, that, is technology.

[calebegg]

If you enter your address on the USPS website, you can even look up the sequence number used:

https://www.usps.com/zip4/

After you enter an address, it's under "Mailing Industry Details", shown as "eLOT" (not sure what it stands for)

https://ribbs.usps.gov/index.cfm?page=elot

[mh-]

eLOT = Enhanced Line of Travel

[gcheong]

And still I get my neighbor's mail.

[gngeal]

That's because programmers still write code with off-by-one errors!

[Retric]

Thanks for that. Mostly I look at HN jokes as a waste of space, but that was just perfect.

[ars]

That happens when one of your neighbors either got no mail that day, or had their mail held.

The mailman gives the next stack to each house in turn, and apparently didn't notice the address was off.

In my case it always happened when it wasn't my regular mailman.