Automated Postal Center

Automatic sorting of letters appeared in the USSR in the 60s. Then it was put into operation about 180 letter-sorting machines and a population accustomed to write codes on envelopes. But with the beginning of the 90s Russia has passed to the European format of writing e-mail addresses to which the machines were not designed. In some regions, particularly in Samara, it was written oebspechenie software for reading addresses in the new format. But existing postal computers had already become obsolete (for example, as a carrier of information they used computer tape), and the disintegration of the Soviet Union made it impossible to modernize them, because the main manufacturer of the machine is in Kharkiv. As a result, mail had to go back to manual sorting.

Over the past 20 years, the system of automatic sorting using the postal code in Russia is actually absent. Prior to the opening of the Moscow ASC mailings in CFD subjected to manual sorting first in the district post offices, then - at the regional and, finally, in the sorting center in Moscow. Now, in the district and regional nodes mail will only be grouped into containers and then sent to Moscow ASN for sorting.

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1. ASC - the largest center of its kind in Eastern Europe, an area of ​​29 thousand sq. M. m., and employs approximately 900 people. Power ASC is 3 million items of mail a day.





The center carries out a detailed sorting (up to the post offices) to 3 million mail items a day. Through ASC Moscow will be about 25 percent of the country's postal exchange. Switching mail flow to Moscow ASN will reduce the time of delivery of correspondence. Inside the Moscow-mail will be delivered per day, excluding the day of the reception. For cities and regional centers this standard is 2 days for small towns and rural areas - 3 days.

2. Correspondence within a region will first be sent to the center - As explained in the ASC, it is faster than to sort and check emails on the spot.



3. Parcel will be sorted to the area (it is connected with the logistics of delivery), letters of large format (flat) - is also up to the area, but plan to purchase additional sorting machines to deliver this type of correspondence to the post office.



4. Paper correspondence falls first on litsovochno-stamping machines (CFC).



5. Machine for opening bags and dust removal.



6. Then, with the help of mechanical devices are separated by analyzing standard (in size) letters and postcards from outside the box.



7. Poslee that letter will automatically orients a person in one direction with respect to the direction of the text in the address part.



8. At the end of the machine causes the letters date stamp and wavy lines to repay marks (stamping).



9. sorted by size letters are formed into containers and sent to the machine coding and sorting of letters (LCSM)



10. There sorted simple standard letter size 220h110 114h162 mm mm.



11. At the beginning of the coding machine converts alphanumeric address conditional code that is printed on the letter.



12. Further information on the coded mail address scanning device for an optical character reader.



13. The equipment, including software recognizes Cyrillic.



13a. If you can not recognize or address the index the scanned image arrives on the monitor operators who enter the information manually.



14. After this letter is automatically divided by the address cell located at the other end of the machine.



15. The recess boxes of sorted mail and transporting them to the stage of preparation of documents and sending e-mail for directions is carried out manually by operators.



16. nominal capacity sorting machines - 42 000 pieces of mail per hour.



17. Manual sorting letters.



18. Layout of targeted cells.



19. Machine for coding and sorting letters and flat format of registered mail (CFSM).



20. There sorted written correspondence weighing up to 2, 5 kg and a thickness of no more than 25 mm.



21. The sorting process is completely similar, the only difference is that the postage manually decomposed face in the same direction.



22. Shop sorting packages and parcels (PSM).



23. There are automatically sorted origin who have undergone hand coding, weighing and feeding to workstations.



24. Parcels and packages manually stacked on the distribution pipeline.



25. Where is the recognition of the encoded information and the distribution of the trays according to a preset program.



26. The system provides automatic detection of large parcels (see more 60h30h30) for shipping them to the additional trays.



27. Recess sorted parcels and packages and transporting them to the stage of preparation of documents and sending e-mail for directions is carried out manually operatoratami postal service.



28. In total there are 5 lines to load parcels and packages and one line for large parcels. And 300 Mailbin for standard parcels. Nominal capacity - 30 ths. Departures per hour.



29. Part of the center is to plant hybrid mail.



30. He gets from large corporate customers text messages in electronic form, and then prints them and sends the sender.



31. Now use the services of hybrid mail "Rostelecom", MTT, "Savings Bank" and the Pension Fund.



32. Following the ASC Moscow in October, will be launched automatic sorting center in St. Petersburg, the tender for its construction was won by Siemens.



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