DE10058850A1 - Method for routing consignments of post uses a postal address relating to a person encoding a postal address relating to a location with street, house number, post code/zip code and place. - Google Patents

Abstract

A central point administers stores postal addresses relating to individuals as a code together with addresses relating to locations. Letter and parcel services create access to both addresses. The postal address relating to a location can be detected from the associated postal address relating to an individual.

Description

The invention relates to a method according to the preamble of claim 1.

It is known that postal items must match the recipient's postal address be labeled so that you can reach the recipient. This is made up of the Name of the recipient, the street and house number as well as the place with the associated zip code together. This type of address is referred to below as denote location-related postal address.

If the recipient's address changes, he must do the following: so that the shipments reach him at his new address.

The recipient must include all natural and legal persons known to him (Friends, acquaintances, insurance companies, etc.) of whom he continues to broadcast want to receive, give his new address. This effort can sometimes be very be high.

Furthermore, he can give Swiss Post a forwarding order so that the items can be sent of people he has not yet informed continue to arrive at him. This However, the forwarding order is limited in time. Then they reach him with the old one Address labeled shipments no longer, but are sent to the sender sent back. The sender must now try the in different ways find out new address, e.g. via the phone book.

These actions must also be performed if the recipient has only one Road moves further.  

The object of the invention is to provide a simple method by which Accessibility of the recipient for mail even after a change in Address, e.g. B. by moving remains.

This object is achieved by a method with the features of claim 1.

The personal postal address (code) ensures that all postal items, that are labeled with the name of the recipient and the code, always with Arrive recipient. The sender does not have to know which location-related Address (street, postcode, town) is hidden behind the personal address.

The recipient therefore remains notified of the new address saved a large part.

The senders do not have to find out the new addresses.

If the sender is a company with a large customer base, it is easier for him the maintenance of customer addresses, as the new addresses no longer in the Database must be entered.

Since the personal postal address is an alternative address, you can continue Mail items are only transported with location-related addresses (street, postcode, town).

The mail with a personal postal address can be sent from Receiver to a different location for a certain time with minimal effort redirected, for example if the recipient is on a cure for six weeks located. To do this, he only needs to contact the responsible body via the new address and the Inform the period of the diversion.  

The personal postal address consists of a code. This code can be made from Characters consist, for example, of a meaningful or meaningless Combination of letters and numbers. The code stands for a location-based Address consisting of the street and house number as well as the place and the Post Code.

The recipient must have a personal address at a central organization apply. He then receives a code that he can pass on to everyone from which he receives mail.

From now on, these people will label their shipments to this recipient with the name and personal address (code) of the Receiver.

The code is at the central organization along with the name of the Recipient and the current location-related address in a database saved. This organization communicates this data to the mail and parcel services, if necessary for data protection reasons without the name of the recipient.

In the mail and parcel distribution centers, this code can now be converted into a location-based address to be converted. To do this, the code must be machine or read manually and the associated location-related address from a database (Street, house number, postcode, town) are searched. For further distribution can this data is now noted on the mailing. The postman can thus Send out the mail item, since now name, street, house number, postcode and town are noted on the shipment.

If the address of the recipient changes, he only needs the central organization announce his new address, this changes the address in the corresponding one Database and if necessary informs the mail and parcel services if they do not have one have direct access to the database.

Another option is to just enter the street and house number encode. This procedure would have the advantages described in the introduction only if you move to the same city or for large cities even only in same postcode area arise.  

It is also possible to enter the full postal address consisting of name, street, Encode house number, postcode and town.

The central organization described above can of course also be done by post and Parcel service to be identical.

The data records (name, personal address, location-based address) can also only be saved at the central organization. The letter and Parcel services can be granted access to the data records via data lines become.

Several personal postal addresses can be assigned to each recipient. So that it is z. B. still possible, the business broadcasts and private To forward shipments to different addresses.

Claims (10)

1. Method for the transportation of mail items with the aid of a person-related postal address, characterized in that the location-related postal address consisting of street, house number, postcode and place are coded with a code. 2. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the for personal postal address associated local postal address can be changed. 3. The method according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that the Personal postal addresses (code) together with the location-related Addresses are managed and saved from a central location. 4. The method according to the preceding claims, characterized in that the Mail and parcel services are given access to both addresses. 5. The method according to the preceding claims, characterized in that from the personal postal address the associated location-related postal address can be determined. 6. The method according to the preceding claims, characterized in that from the personal postal address the associated location-related postal address is determined and is legibly noted on the mailpiece. 7. The method according to previous claims, characterized in that only the Street and house number can be encoded. 8. The method according to previous claims, characterized in that the full postal address consisting of name, street, house number, Postcode and city can be encoded.   9. The method according to previous claims, characterized in that the o. G. central location can be identical to a letter or parcel service. 10. The method according to previous claims, characterized in that a Recipient can have multiple personal addresses.