Abstract: The group data and order data items of each of cards transferred one by one are read by a reader, and then stored in a memory under the control of a control circuit of a handling apparatus in which each card is sorted into that one of the regulating box groups which corresponds to the read group data and cards sorted into each box group are received one by one in a plurality of regulating boxes, and in which the memory stores the relation between the regulating boxes and order data items, a time table prestores data on a transfer time period corresponding to the distance between each regulating box and a discharge reference point of a corresponding exit transfer passage, and the discharge order of the cards is determined by the control circuit by use of the order data and transfer-time data, thereby to discharge cards, arranged in order, into collecting sections.