What is a carrier route?
Each zip code across the country is broken into delivery areas for each mailman. These areas are referred to generically as “Carrier Routes”. There are several specific types of carrier routes: City route (referred to as a ‘Carrier Route’), a Rural Route, a Hired Carrier route, and a Box route (PO Boxes). A typical route contains between 200 and 500 hundred deliveries but can be in excess of 1000 (for areas of very high density). New routes can be less than 10( usually formed in anticipation of completion or a new density populated new development. . Sometimes carrier route mail will have a cheaper postage that barcoded mail.
