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An Post's previous logo used from 1 January 1984 to 13 December 2018 An Post postal van The General Post Office in Dublin, former headquarters of An Post A small An Post post box attached to a telephone or electricity pole, or street light, is usually called a lamp box Post office in Kincasslagh, County Donegal
Mail sorting refers to the methods by which postal systems determine how and where to route mail for delivery. Once accomplished by hand, mail sorting is now largely automated through the aid of specialized machines. The first widely adopted mail sorting machine was the Transorma, first made operational in Rotterdam in 1930.
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 ...
A sectional center facility (SCF) is a processing and distribution center (P&DC) of the United States Postal Service (USPS) that serves a designated geographical area defined by one or more three-digit ZIP Code prefixes.
In contrast to the red-brick Parcel Office, the new Letter Sorting Office was built in reinforced concrete; the eastern half was completed in 1926, the steel-framed western half in 1934. The Letter Sorting Office, said at the time to be the largest in Europe and the British Empire, was opened in November that year by the Duke and Duchess of York.
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.
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A Railway Sub Office was an office of the British Royal Mail which received mail directly from a rail source for distribution to surrounding districts, without the mail having first been sent to a regional sorting office and forwarding. After the first RSO was established in 1855, over 2000 such designations were made, the post marks bearing ...