EP0272355A1 - Dispositif de tri postal et de distribution - Google Patents

Dispositif de tri postal et de distribution Download PDF

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EP0272355A1
EP0272355A1 EP86310101A EP86310101A EP0272355A1 EP 0272355 A1 EP0272355 A1 EP 0272355A1 EP 86310101 A EP86310101 A EP 86310101A EP 86310101 A EP86310101 A EP 86310101A EP 0272355 A1 EP0272355 A1 EP 0272355A1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination
    • B07C3/18—Devices or arrangements for indicating destination, e.g. by code marks

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  • the object of the invention is to free mail senders from the trouble of looking for, memorizing, and writing the zip code and address of the addressee, thus avoiding any possible mistakes to be made in such work.
  • the new method can be used to trace an addresse to his new address and reduce the number of "undeliverable" mails.
  • Another object of the invention is to keep the address of the addressee secret, as people may not want their addresses to be made public, and, at the same time, to make the postman's distribution work much easier while difficulties caused by misprint, unclear writing, and mistaken omissions in addresses can be substantially avoided, so as to provide a short-cut for mail delivery and ensure correctness in address identification.
  • the new method according to the invention includes measures to encode the telephone numbers and detailed addresses of all civil and private organizations as well as private homes (such information is obtainable from application papers for telephone installation) and store this information into the main memory in the computer center at the post office to establish a file; the post office should make available standard envelopes and cards, which are suitable for the post office computer to read in and distribute then for mail senders' use.
  • the only thing left for the mail sender to do is to mark out at particular positions on the standard envelopes and/or cards certain signs representing the telephone number of the addressee.
  • post office workers After all mails are collected into the post office, post office workers will respectively put the letters and cards to be dilivered locally into the computer to read out the telephone numbers marked thereon, with these telephone numbers, the corresponding postal address codes stored in the file are called out from the memory apparatus and printed at the designated locations on envelopes or cards.
  • the sorting and distribution apparatus will receive control instructions from the computer and direct the envelopes and cards to respective mail collecting devices for different postal delivery zones; the postmen concerned can just pick up the already sorted mails and rapidly deliver them to various local addressees.
  • the first preparation to be made by the post office is to compile postal address codes for computer use.
  • information obtained from local telephone directories or application documents for telephone installation can be utilized and put together with relative zip codes suitalbe to the responsible area under the care of the concerned post office.
  • the postal address code for "7 Lane l0. Hsin-Chung Street, Sung-Shan, Taipei" is "l0595ALl0,7". From the zip code directory we find both Hsin-Chung Street and San-Min Street have the same zip code l0595 and Hsin-Chung Street comes first in the list; therefore, the alphabet "A” is placed after the zip code. As to "Lane l0", it is indicated by Ll0.
  • the postal address code is derived from simplification of the address itself and used to facilitate computer storage and out-put for postmen to identify; thus the compilation of it must be simple and explicit in nature. Information needed for this purpose can, of course, be obtained from the word table however, it is preferred to let the local postmen select what is easier to remember for themselves and customarily used by local residents. It is said that the U.S. Postal Service has been trying to use 8-digit zip code numbers; such practice will certainly facilitate more simplication of postal address codes.
  • envelopes and cards are mediums for photoelectric readers, sizes and formats of such envelopes and cards should be determined with consideration of requirements for photoelectric readers.
  • mail senders are requested to write Arabic numerials in a particular type at the particular location designated on the envelope or card; or a blank form can be printed on the edge of an envelope or a card for the mail sender to mark out to indicate figures.
  • the last preparatory work for rapid distribution of mails is to establish at the computer center, a data file of the telephone numbers and corresponding postal address codes or detailed addresses.
  • the sorting and distribu­tion device 5 of the computer will sort the mails (envelopes, post cards, and postal parcel cards) and distribute them to various collecting devices for respective areas of different zip codes. At this point, the entire operation of rapid distribution of mails is completed.
  • the postmen responsible for different postal delivery zones after being relieved from the hard and time-consuming sorting and distribution work formerly done by themselves and refreshed from a good rest, can now go to the collecting device 6 to pick up the mails to be delivered in their respective delivery zones and deliver the mails to addressees represented by various postal address codes.

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FR2626504A1 (fr) * 1988-02-03 1989-08-04 Cesarini Roger Procede et dispositif pour l'adressage a un destinataire
EP0373971A2 (fr) * 1988-12-16 1990-06-20 Pitney Bowes Inc. Charger/décharger des bases de données
WO1990012660A1 (fr) * 1989-04-27 1990-11-01 Bertin & Cie Procede et systeme de tri d'objets portant des inscriptions, tels que des objets postaux, des cheques, des mandats
EP0467438A1 (fr) * 1990-07-05 1992-01-22 Koninklijke KPN N.V. Système de traitement de courrier avec conversion sélective de messages
EP0500180A1 (fr) * 1991-02-20 1992-08-26 Koninklijke KPN N.V. Système d'acheminement de courrier
US5292004A (en) * 1988-02-03 1994-03-08 Roger Cesarini Process for addressing to a recipient
EP0663652A2 (fr) * 1993-12-06 1995-07-19 Pitney Bowes, Inc. Système d'échange de données électroniques pour le contrôle du courrier
EP0710930A2 (fr) * 1994-10-04 1996-05-08 Pitney Bowes Inc. Système pour traiter des envois postaux avec authorisation des envois par un signe distinctif avant que les envois entrent dans le service circulataire d'un service porteur des envois
WO1997002098A1 (fr) * 1995-07-04 1997-01-23 Ilias Tsamourgelis Procede pour la distribution du courrier ou analogue a l'interieur d'un pays et a l'etranger, au moyen de numeros postaux (p.n.)
DE102006036115A1 (de) * 2006-08-01 2008-02-07 Sascha Theesfeld Verfahren zum Adressieren von Postsendungen
US7729799B2 (en) 1999-08-31 2010-06-01 United States Postal Service Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information in a mail processing device using sorter application software
EP1295232B1 (fr) * 2000-06-28 2011-10-05 Eliane Maarek Procede d'adressage et de traitement de courrier postal ou electronique
US8227718B2 (en) 1999-08-31 2012-07-24 United States Postal Service Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code

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US3858054A (en) * 1973-10-01 1974-12-31 Xerox Corp Commutator disk for zip code sorting
US4122526A (en) * 1976-12-20 1978-10-24 Pitney-Bowes, Inc. Calculating and postal zip code-to-postal zone converting apparatus
FR2414962A1 (fr) * 1978-01-20 1979-08-17 Delaby Francois Enveloppe permettant le triage automatique du courrier

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US3858054A (en) * 1973-10-01 1974-12-31 Xerox Corp Commutator disk for zip code sorting
US4122526A (en) * 1976-12-20 1978-10-24 Pitney-Bowes, Inc. Calculating and postal zip code-to-postal zone converting apparatus
FR2414962A1 (fr) * 1978-01-20 1979-08-17 Delaby Francois Enveloppe permettant le triage automatique du courrier

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AU627165B2 (en) * 1988-02-03 1992-08-20 Roger Cesarini Process and device for addressing to a recipient
EP0327472A1 (fr) * 1988-02-03 1989-08-09 Roger Cesarini Procédé et dispositif pour l'adressage à un destinataire
WO1989007018A1 (fr) * 1988-02-03 1989-08-10 Roger Cesarini Procede et dispositif pour l'adressage a un destinataire
FR2626504A1 (fr) * 1988-02-03 1989-08-04 Cesarini Roger Procede et dispositif pour l'adressage a un destinataire
US5292004A (en) * 1988-02-03 1994-03-08 Roger Cesarini Process for addressing to a recipient
EP0373971A2 (fr) * 1988-12-16 1990-06-20 Pitney Bowes Inc. Charger/décharger des bases de données
EP0373971A3 (fr) * 1988-12-16 1991-01-30 Pitney Bowes Inc. Charger/décharger des bases de données
FR2646364A1 (fr) * 1989-04-27 1990-11-02 Bertin & Cie Procede et systeme de tri d'objets portant des inscriptions, tels que des objets postaux, des cheques, des mandats
WO1990012660A1 (fr) * 1989-04-27 1990-11-01 Bertin & Cie Procede et systeme de tri d'objets portant des inscriptions, tels que des objets postaux, des cheques, des mandats
EP0467438A1 (fr) * 1990-07-05 1992-01-22 Koninklijke KPN N.V. Système de traitement de courrier avec conversion sélective de messages
EP0500180A1 (fr) * 1991-02-20 1992-08-26 Koninklijke KPN N.V. Système d'acheminement de courrier
US5682429A (en) * 1993-12-06 1997-10-28 Pitney Bowes Inc. Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system
EP0663652A3 (fr) * 1993-12-06 1995-08-30 Pitney Bowes Inc
EP0663652A2 (fr) * 1993-12-06 1995-07-19 Pitney Bowes, Inc. Système d'échange de données électroniques pour le contrôle du courrier
EP0829824A3 (fr) * 1993-12-06 2000-05-17 Pitney Bowes Inc. Système d'échange de données électroniques pour le contrôle du courrier
EP0829824A2 (fr) * 1993-12-06 1998-03-18 Pitney Bowes Inc. Système d'échange de données électroniques pour le contrÔle du courrier
US5781634A (en) * 1993-12-06 1998-07-14 Pitney Bowes Inc. Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system
EP0710930A2 (fr) * 1994-10-04 1996-05-08 Pitney Bowes Inc. Système pour traiter des envois postaux avec authorisation des envois par un signe distinctif avant que les envois entrent dans le service circulataire d'un service porteur des envois
US7890208B2 (en) 1994-10-04 2011-02-15 Pintsov Leon A Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream
EP0710930A3 (fr) * 1994-10-04 1997-03-26 Pitney Bowes Inc Système pour traiter des envois postaux avec authorisation des envois par un signe distinctif avant que les envois entrent dans le service circulataire d'un service porteur des envois
US7266531B2 (en) 1994-10-04 2007-09-04 Pitney Bowes Inc. Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream
GR950100254A (el) * 1995-07-04 1997-03-31 Μεθοδος διακινησης αλληλογραφιας και συναφων στο εσωτερικο και εξωτερικο με χρηση ταχυδρομικων αριθμων (τ.α.)
CN1089647C (zh) * 1995-07-04 2002-08-28 I·察摩结理斯 一种通过使用邮政信箱编号在国内和国外发送信件和有关物件的方法
AU703552B2 (en) * 1995-07-04 1999-03-25 Ilias Tsamourgelis A method of distribution of correspondence and relative things in the interior of a country and abroad, by using post numbers (P.N.)
WO1997002098A1 (fr) * 1995-07-04 1997-01-23 Ilias Tsamourgelis Procede pour la distribution du courrier ou analogue a l'interieur d'un pays et a l'etranger, au moyen de numeros postaux (p.n.)
US7729799B2 (en) 1999-08-31 2010-06-01 United States Postal Service Apparatus and methods for processing mailpiece information in a mail processing device using sorter application software
US7765024B2 (en) 1999-08-31 2010-07-27 United States Postal Service Methods and media for processing mailpiece information in a mail processing device using sorter application software
US8227718B2 (en) 1999-08-31 2012-07-24 United States Postal Service Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code
US8629365B2 (en) 1999-08-31 2014-01-14 United States Postal Service Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code
US9381544B2 (en) 1999-08-31 2016-07-05 United States Postal Service Apparatus and methods for identifying and processing mail using an identification code
EP1295232B1 (fr) * 2000-06-28 2011-10-05 Eliane Maarek Procede d'adressage et de traitement de courrier postal ou electronique
DE102006036115A1 (de) * 2006-08-01 2008-02-07 Sascha Theesfeld Verfahren zum Adressieren von Postsendungen

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