Links to great photos of Amazon’s UK warehouse have been circulating on various blogs (Digg, BoingBoing etc) recently.

I was surprised to see that the warehouse is manual – unlike UPS sorting terminals for example. The picking and sorting isn’t done by robots and conveyor belts but by human beings who walk around all day and pick things into orange crates, which are then forwarded to yet more human beings who pack the orders.

You can read more about it (and see more pictures) here and here.