Ms. Neal is from Philadelphia, where she worked in hospitals as a housekeeper and then sorted packages for Federal Express.

At U.P.S. the second tier is mostly part-timers, who sort packages and load trucks and planes.

The company's top 15 executives all began their careers sorting packages.

Part-timers usually sort packages.

He sorted all the letters and packages as the vessel moved along the river, picking up and dropping off the mail at each landing.

Dasein glimpsed a long table with a conveyor belt down its middle, a line of men and women working along it, sorting packages.

It was carrying postal staff who sorted mail and packages en route to London as it had done every night without incident for 125 years.

Sorka said, pulling him to the seaward side of her golden queen, where they were shielded from the other riders, who were still sorting packages into the color-coded areas.

U.P.S. operates its largest distribution center at the airport here, sorting and shipping packages on 170 flights a day.

They are people who work during the night sorting and loading packages that have arrived by air and must be delivered by truck to customers before noon.