| • What is meant by incoming mail sorting ? |
Mail from main processing centers is sorted for carriers or groups of carriers. The routing information to be read contains the full zip-code and the street.
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| • What is outgoing mail sorting ? |
Mail is sorted for main processing centers in a mail processing network. The routing information to be read is the Zip code.
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| • What is mail sequencing ? |
Mail is sorted in the right order for delivery by the mail carrier. The full address has to be identified to determine the delivery point of the mailpiece.
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• What is mixed mail ?
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Mixed mail is defined as mail going from small postcard size up to about A3.
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• What is your definition of letter mail ?
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Letter mail is defined as mail smaller than C5.
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| • MLOCR, what is that ? |
Multi-line optical character recognition is a software to translate fully automatic the address information on a letter into information for the machine what sorting output has to be used.
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| • What is a VCS ? |
Videocoding systems are complementary to MLOCR’s. For addresses not read by the MLOCR, videocoding personnel can type in the routing information manually, after having seen the image of the mail object and the letter can be sorted automatically.
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• What is a BCR (Bar code reader) ?
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When the routing information is barcoded, a bar code reader can read the bar code and translate for the machine the sorting output.
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| • What is a routing information ? |
The routing information contains the elements for the machine to determine the sorting directions. The routing information can be coded in a barcode or in an address.
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• What is an ID-Tag ?
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The unique identifier barcode allows the postal operator to associate off-line at the ID-Tag the sorting information.
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