A super-fast sorting computer and a team of address dectivesare making lightning quick decisions as they filethrough your Christmas mail this year.

Some MPs have claimed that the public should not use red envelopes as they are harder to read and will be sorted slower.

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But Royal Mail say that they can deal quickly with all properly addressed post, whether red, blue or gold.

AnIntelligent Letter Sorting Machine reads the addresses on letters at hyperspeed when they are first received in a sorting office. It makes split-seconddecisions about where to send the mail in the office.

But in the event it can not read your handwriting a team of 'address detectives' is on hand to help.

The ISLM emails a photograph of any mail it cannot read - about five per cent - to the teams, who use their human eyes to read the addresses, dealing with thousands of images an hour.

A spokesman for Royal Mail said: "As the universal service provider, Royal Mail is proud to deliver the Christmas post for consumers and businesses.

"Our Intelligent Letter Sorting Machines can process up to 50,000 items an hour.

"Anything the machines are unable to read are almost instantaneously passed through to our data centre where our team of address detectives identify the correct address.

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