WO2006012811A1 - Method and device for carrying out a mail sorting process - Google Patents
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- WO2006012811A1 WO2006012811A1 PCT/DE2004/001732 DE2004001732W WO2006012811A1 WO 2006012811 A1 WO2006012811 A1 WO 2006012811A1 DE 2004001732 W DE2004001732 W DE 2004001732W WO 2006012811 A1 WO2006012811 A1 WO 2006012811A1
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- G—PHYSICS
- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
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- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
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- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00185—Details internally of apparatus in a franking system, e.g. franking machine at customer or apparatus at post office
- G07B17/00435—Details specific to central, non-customer apparatus, e.g. servers at post office or vendor
- G07B2017/00451—Address hygiene, i.e. checking and correcting addresses to be printed on mail pieces using address databases
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- G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
- G07B17/00467—Transporting mailpieces
- G07B2017/00483—Batch processing of mailpieces
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- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
- G07B17/00—Franking apparatus
- G07B17/00459—Details relating to mailpieces in a franking system
- G07B17/00508—Printing or attaching on mailpieces
- G07B2017/00572—Details of printed item
- G07B2017/0058—Printing of code
- G07B2017/00588—Barcode
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- G07B—TICKET-ISSUING APPARATUS; FARE-REGISTERING APPARATUS; FRANKING APPARATUS
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- G07B2017/00596—Printing of address
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- the invention relates to a device for carrying out a sorted production process for mailpieces to be distributed to recipient addresses located within predetermined delivery cells r , with one of at least one
- the object of the invention is therefore to provide a device by means of which a production of mailpiece ensembles is made possible, all of which are to be sent to a limited predetermined geographic area.
- Recipient address as well as with a code that contains at least one component that is assigned to a defined as a limited geographical area delivery cell within which a respective recipient address is located, said provided for a delivery cell mailpieces are successively sortable ' according to a predetermined rule, and that
- the controller of the printer device is dependent on predetermined separation characters, which are included in the data processing system enterable, at least receiver addresses containing data set and are placed such that subsumed subsets subsets of the total amount of mailpieces can be generated.
- the device according to the invention Since the time-consuming and costly sorting operations required in the prior art when using the device according to the invention, which performs a pre-sorting even before a lettering operation of the mail pieces, as a rule completely eliminated, the device according to the invention over the prior art, a time and cost savings.
- the information contained in the record containing at least receiver addresses is preferably in the form of an alphanumeric code.
- the mailpieces of a delivery cell can be subdivided into a plurality of bundles with the aid of separators, each bundle containing a predeterminable number of mailpieces.
- the mail items by means of additional, in the at least Recipient-containing information containing data record are sortable for optimized successive distribution by a messenger.
- a sorting process can be organized in such a way that the length of a route to be traveled by a messenger when delivering the mailpieces is minimized.
- the mailpieces are preferably sortable by means of further additional information containing data sets containing at least recipient addresses such that the recipient addresses of a delivery cell are arranged according to the street numbers of a street.
- the mailpieces are preferably sortable in such a way that the recipient addresses of a delivery cell are arranged according to streets.
- the mail items can be sorted by means of further additional information containing data sets containing at least recipient addresses such that the recipient addresses of a cell follow
- Places of delivery are ordered.
- the necessary information entry in the record is explained below.
- the data set containing at least receiver addresses is preferably generated by a further data processing system having at least one input device for inputting data, a processor unit and a memory unit as well as an output device for outputting data, wherein in the Storage unit a program is stored with the following steps:
- a plurality of recipient addresses consisting of a recipient name and a recipient address, to which a total amount of mailpieces is to be delivered, in the data processing system in which
- Memory unit are stored in substantially all actually existing recipient addresses within the entire territory of a state and a plurality of a respective subset of the Zustanzanschriften associated delivery cells, each having a limited geographical area of the
- Recipient addresses in such a way that in a labeling process the mail items provided for a respective delivery cell are uniformly markable and successively sortable in the order of an optimized distribution in predeterminable order, and generating a correspondingly reordered data set containing at least receiver addresses.
- An information attached to the newly ordered data set containing at least receiver addresses may be attached to the data record preferably as an alphanumeric number.
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell are arranged according to house numbers of a street, this information being attachable to the newly ordered data set containing at least receiver addresses.
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell are arranged according to streets, whereby this information is also available to the newly ordered data set containing at least receiver addresses.
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell are preferably arranged according to districts of delivery locations, whereby this information can also be provided to the newly ordered data set containing at least recipient addresses.
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell are preferably sorted by delivery location, whereby this information can also be provided to the newly ordered data set containing at least recipient addresses.
- the program stored in the further data processing system also carries out the following steps according to an important preferred embodiment: • storing the newly ordered, at least receiver addresses containing record in which the provided for a respective delivery cell mailings for a labeling process to be controlled uniformly markable and successively sortable in the sense of an optimized distribution in a predeterminable order,
- the program stored in the data processing system executes the additional step of summing over the number of receiver addresses of a delivery cell.
- the important method step makes it possible for a delivery cell to be subdivided into subunits (bundles) in the event that more recipient addresses are counted in a delivery cell than a predetermined number, the number of recipient addresses within a subunit corresponding to the predetermined number and between the last recipient address of an upstream subunit and a respective first recipient address of the respective upstream subunit subordinate subunit a delimiter is inserted.
- a delimiter for the mutual delimitation of subunits of a delivery cell can be defined as a predetermined number consecutively arranged separation mark for delimiting delivery cells (according to claim 9) (for example * for mutual delimitation of delivery cells and ** for mutual delimitation of subunits of a delivery cell), or a delimiter for the mutual delimitation of subunits of a delivery cell may also be defined as a separate delimiter different from the delimiters for delimiting delivery cells (according to claim 9) (for example as # if a * is defined for the mutual delineation of delivery cells). It is also conceivable that a separator is defined as a combination of different separators defined in a predetermined order, wherein a separator may be chosen as one character from the set of alphanumeric characters or one character from the set of ASCII characters.
- the predetermined order of the delivery cells is likewise preferably defined in an alphanumeric code.
- Fig. 1 is a data processing system of the preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention in a front view
- Fig. 2 is a Beschriftungsbeispiel the preferred embodiment of the device according to the invention in a view from the front;
- Fig. 3 is a representation of a data set of the device according to the invention.
- the inventive device 100 shown in FIGS. 1 to 3 for carrying out a sorted production operation for mailpieces 130 to be distributed to recipient addresses within predetermined delivery cells 160 contains a data processing system 110 controlled by a data set 170 containing at least receiver addresses and a printer device 120 controlled by the data processing system 110 , wherein essential to the invention in the data processing system 110 is a program with the following steps:
- Recipient address 131 as well as with a code 132 containing at least one component associated with a defined as a limited geographic area delivery cell 160, within which a respective recipient address
- the control of the printer device 120 is dependent on predetermined separation characters 180, which in the data processing system 110 can be entered, at least receiver addresses containing data set
- the mailpieces 130 of a delivery cell 160 are subdivided by means of separating characters 180 into a plurality of bundles 190, each bundle 190 containing a previously determinable number of mailpieces 130.
- the mailpieces 130 are sorted by means of additional information contained in the at least receiver addresses containing data record 170 for optimized successive distribution by a messenger.
- a sorting process is organized in such a way that the length of a route to be traveled by a messenger when delivering the mailpieces 130 is minimized.
- the mailpieces 130 are sorted by means of further additional information containing at least receiver addresses 170 such that the recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160 are arranged according to the street numbers of a street.
- the mailpieces 130 are likewise sorted by means of further additional information containing data record 170 containing at least receiver addresses in such a way that the recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160 are sorted by road.
- the mailpieces 130 are sorted by means of further additional information containing at least receiver addresses 170 such that the recipient addresses of a Delivery cell 160 are sorted by districts of delivery.
- the mailpieces 130 are generally sorted such that the recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160 are ordered by delivery locations.
- the information contained in the at least receiver addresses containing record 170 is in the form of an alphanumeric code.
- the at least receiver address-containing data record 170 is generated by a further data processing system 110 having at least one input device 111 for inputting data, a processor unit 112 and a memory unit 113 and an output device 114 for outputting data, wherein in the memory unit 113 a program with the following steps is stored:
- Recipient addresses in the sense of a delivery optimization for a labeling of the mailpieces 130 to be controlled with the recipient addresses 132 in such a way that in the case of a labeling operation that for a respective one
- Delivery cell 160 provided mailings 130 can be marked uniformly and successively sorted in the sense of an optimized distribution in a predeterminable order, and generating a correspondingly rearranged, at least
- the program stored in the further data processing system 110 additionally carries out the following steps:
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160 are arranged according to house numbers of a street, and this information is attached to the newly ordered data set 170 containing at least recipient addresses.
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160 are also ordered by road, and this information is attached to the newly ordered data set 170 containing at least receiver addresses.
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160 are also sorted by districts of delivery locations, and this information is also attached to the reordered data set 160 containing at least receiver addresses.
- the recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160 are arranged according to the further delivery locations, whereby this information is also attached to the newly ordered data set 170 containing at least recipient addresses.
- An information attached to the reordered data record 170 containing at least receiver addresses is attached to the data record 170 as an alphanumeric number.
- the program stored in the data processing system 110 also carries out the additional step of summation over the number of recipient addresses of a delivery cell 160, so that in the case that more recipient addresses are counted in a delivery cell 160 than a predetermined number, a delivery cell 160 in subunits 190 (bundles) is subdivisible, wherein the number of recipient addresses within a subunit 190 of the predetermined number and wherein between the last recipient address of a higher subunit 190 and a respective first recipient address of the respective upstream subunit 190 subordinate subunit 190, a separator 180 is inserted ,
- a delimiter 180 for mutual delimitation of subunits 190 of a delivery cell 160 is defined as a predetermined number of consecutively arranged separation characters 180 for delimiting delivery cells 160 (according to claim 9).
- a separator 180 for mutual delimitation of delivery cells 160 is defined as "star” or "*”
- a separator 180 for mutual discrimination of subunits 190 of a delivery cell 160 is defined as "double star” or "**” ,
- the predetermined order of the delivery cells 160 is also defined in an alphanumeric code.
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DE112004002993T DE112004002993A5 (en) | 2004-08-03 | 2004-08-03 | Method and device for carrying out a sorted production process for mail to be sent |
EP04762577A EP1913560A1 (en) | 2004-08-03 | 2004-08-03 | Method and device for carrying out a mail sorting process |
PCT/DE2004/001732 WO2006012811A1 (en) | 2004-08-03 | 2004-08-03 | Method and device for carrying out a mail sorting process |
DE112005002527T DE112005002527A5 (en) | 2004-08-03 | 2005-08-03 | Printing and sorting device for producing mailpieces |
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