[DannoHung]

Did you read the article about the Netflix processing center? There isn't any automation on the envelope side, rather there are teams of people opening them up and pulling the discs and the sleeves.

I think the barcode window is entirely for outgoing routing.

[encoderer]

I did read the article, but I didn't see where it said that there was no automation on the receiving end. Maybe I missed it, it was a long article.

When I noticed this for myself, 2007 sometime, I had a common problem where every Nth disc would take an extra day to be received, and that would really throw off my pattern, which mostly was just to have a couple movies for the weekend.

So soon hypothesized that it'd happen on days the barcode was not visible. So to test, I put 1 of them wrong intentionally, mailed all 3 at the same time, and the 1 that was wrong did indeed take an extra day to be marked as returned.

So I didn't have any real facts, just an observation that seemed plausible to me.