Sorting installation, in particular for mail

A sorting installation for mail, comprising:

• a plurality of conveyed item carriers circulating on at least one conveying mechanism for receiving, transporting and controllably delivering conveyed items;
• each conveyed item carrier comprising a fixedly arranged wall part and a movably arranged wall part;
• the movably arranged wall part forming in a closed position together with the fixedly arranged wall part a cross-sectionally approximately V-shaped receiving pocket for the conveyed item;
• the movably arranged wall part forming in a delivery position together with the fixedly arranged wall part a downwardly open delivery slot for the conveyed items;
• one of the two wall parts forming a delivery chute adjoining the delivery slot in a downward direction and sloping counter to a transporting direction and having a curved section for imparting a horizontal velocity to the conveyed items to at least partially compensate for a horizontal velocity of the item carrier in the transport direction;
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• the curved section extending substantially below where said fixedly arranged wall part and moveably arranged wall part meet in a closed position at a bottom of the V-shaped receiving pocket.