1898 Daily News 20 Dec. 3/3 To be able to sort the whole 500..with not more than 30 ‘blinds’—mis-sorts, that is.

1925 Times 1 May 11/3 A trap letter, containing two £1 and one 10s. currency notes, was put in the defendant's rack for sorting and should have been placed on one side as a ‘mis-sort’.

1987 New Scientist 24 Dec. 62/2 Because missorts on an optical character recognition machine cost 10 times those on conventional sorters, the machine rejects any letters it is not sure about.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions v. 25 If they be..missorted in place.

a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI. Serm. (1661) xv. 503 Not to be mis-sorted into a place no ways meet.

1749 R. Ross Coll. Papers rel. Scheme Reformation of Lappers i. 5 No body will mis-sort his yarn, or weave his cloth unequally.

1803 Morning Post 21 Sept. Letters sometimes were mis-sorted, and got into the hands of the wrong carriers.

1861 Athenæum 6 Apr. 461/2 It [sc. a letter] was actually published..by Lord Wharncliffe, but having got mis-sorted and separated from the nine,..it was overlooked.

1973 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 22 Aug. 2 Rep. Charles Wilson..opened a hearing into the postal service by saying that 61 million pieces of mail..were missorted or otherwise wrongly handled.

1998 Computerworld (Electronic ed.) 16 Feb. Versions of Lotus Development Corp.'s CC:Mail..will have to be upgraded, because the software will delete and missort messages after 2000.