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Mail sorting systems are now also used by corporations and other mailers to presort mail prior to delivery in order to earn discounts on postage. In the United States, for example, presort discounts can reduce the cost of First-Class Mail from $0.42 to as low as $0.324. [ 1 ]
Prior to the deployment of FSS machines, flats were machine sorted to the route level only. Carriers had to manually sort all the flats they were to deliver into proper delivery order before they could embark on their routes. With FSS, when the carrier receives them they are ready to be delivered without need for any further manual sorting.
A multiline optical-character reader, or MLOCR, is a type of mail sorting machine that uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to determine how to route mail through the postal system. MLOCRs work by capturing images of the front of letter-sized mailpieces, and extracting the entire address from each piece.
The Transorma was the first large-scale multi-position mail sorting machine, built by the Dutch heavy industrial company, Werkspoor.The name is an acronym for "TRANsport and SORting, Marchand and Andriessen", the last names of the inventors.
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Mail sorting office in Wellington General Post Office, New Zealand c.1900. A sorting office or processing and distribution center (P&DC; name used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) [1]) is any location where postal operators bring mail after collection for sorting into batches for delivery to the addressee, [2] which may be a direct delivery or sent onwards to another regional or ...