JPS63175680A - Express mail method - Google Patents

Abstract

(57) [Summary] This bulletin contains application data before electronic filing, so abstract data is not recorded.

Description

[Detailed description of the invention] The objective is to provide a new method for processing mail.

When posting, there is no need to write the recipient's address and postal code. This new method uses computers to significantly improve the convenience, speed, cost, and reliability of express mail.

A patent application for this invention is pending only in the United States, but no application has been filed in any other country.

For the purpose of the present invention, since the number of postal codes increases gradually, it is inconvenient for the sender to enter the number, and the operations of the postal service are also affected. This invention eliminates the hassle of looking up the sender's postal code and address, memorizing it, and writing it down, and eliminates all possible mistakes that may occur as a result of this, and under certain conditions, it can be used as the recipient's forwarding address. Since the new address of the mail can be tracked, the number of ``unaddressed mail'' is greatly reduced.

Another object of the present invention is to enable the confidentiality of the recipient's address to the public.

Its main purpose is to spare postmen the hard work of distributing mail. The sender will be freed from suffering such as writing or omitting characters that are difficult to read, or where the addressee is difficult to read or illegible due to such circumstances. This invention will speed up mail delivery and provide security in deciphering addresses.

The method according to the present invention is to store telephone numbers and detailed address codes from the registration application materials in the main storage device of the computer of the post office and file the telephone installations of government and private institutions and private residences. (file) is established. Standard envelopes or cards (postal cards or postcards) convenient for reading into computers at post offices are printed and distributed for use in the oscillator system. The sender simply writes the recipient's phone number in a certain position on the envelope or card. At the post office, each piece of mail (envelopes, postcards, and cards indicating postal parcels) destined for the local area it picks up is placed into a computer and its telephone number is read. At the same time, a code corresponding to the address stored in a file in the computer's memory is printed on the face of each envelope, postcard or card or at a designated location thereof. At this time, the correspondence sorting device receives control commands from the computer, and each envelope, postcard, card, etc. is placed in the sorting and collection area 5A according to each postal code area. Each postman can take out the mail corresponding to his own postal code area from this device and promptly deliver it. The detailed working status of the new method for postal express delivery according to the present invention can be understood from the detailed explanation in the attached drawings and examples.

The attached drawings show a flowchart of a postal express delivery process that specifically implements the present invention.

The working process of the present invention is divided into 4f stages, the details of which are as follows.

CI) Traditional preparation at the post office - Includes mail collected from overseas post offices and branch offices belonging to the jurisdiction of the water layer, post office boxes, street mailboxes, etc. The focus of this stage is to have the mail sorter sort the mail between overseas and local locations.
Broadly divided into types. Local mail will be processed using the appropriate express delivery method.

(II) Preparation work for express delivery work - To establish the mail express delivery system according to the present invention, maintenance work must first be completed. The details and specific methods and conditions are as follows.

i) "Address code" (for computer) - The main mail code is selected from the telephone directory compiled by the telephone office (or application materials for telephone installation) and the "postal code book" compiled by the post office itself. Those applicable to the Department's jurisdiction are incorporated into the Code. The main points are as follows.

(a) Select telephone numbers and corresponding addresses in this postal jurisdiction;

indicate. (C) Since the number of village or town names using the same katakana within the same postal code area does not exceed 26, in order to determine which village or town is within the same postal code area, Villages or towns within this area are in the English alphabet (characters)
The code is displayed in the order shown.

(d) "#T road address, number, floor, room number" that appears after town and street. For street numbers, use the original code as is. F in front of the floor and room numbers respectively.
and R.

(Example 1) The postal code for the addressee "No. 13, P.O. Box 20, Kanda, Tokyo" is 10191.20-12.

-I learned from page 108 of the "Postal Code Register" that the postal code for "Kanda P.O. Box, Tokyo" is 10191, and I just need to enter the street address and number that follows that.

[Example 2] The postal code for the number "3" on the 7th floor of Menzo Hiikiba, Shisa-cho, Matsuura City, Nagasaki Prefecture is 85946. ``Hikibamen'' corresponds to number 9 in this number (Shisa Town, see page 98 of the ledger above), and is displayed with the English letter base rlJ, which is placed in the order of number 9.

"Place rFJ on the floor J side. Therefore, this address code is 85.
It becomes 94613-26F7-3.

(Example 3) [5-23-2 Shonai Eicho, Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture]
Within this postal code area of 561, "Shonai Eicho" is the third one under shi (see page 72 of the ledger above), so the corresponding code is 561 shi C23-2.

[Note] Currently in the United States, a postal code consisting of 8 numbers is being used on a trial basis, and is used to differentiate the numbers of each street. This suggests that it is a natural tendency for international mail to encode addresses. This will further promote the invention and meet the worldwide demand.

ii) Printing of standard envelopes and postal cards (for letters and postal parcels) - printing of envelopes and postal cards of a certain standard (for postcards and postal parcels) subject to the benefits of their use and in accordance with the requirements of photosensitive reading machines; The cards must have the same specifications, since the computer reading requirements are similar). These items are used for sending out messages or writing on postal parcels.

111) Telephone number ledger and postal code address code comparison table (
(for the postman's use) is organized for the postman's identification, inspection, and memorization.

:■] Systematic work of express delivery Mail is first processed through the basic tasks of traditional mail, namely ``collection'' and ``classification.'' After that, the mail to be delivered locally ( Two types of mail (letters and postcards placed in envelopes) and postal cards (cards filled in when sending out postal parcels) are processed as follows.

(1) A computer reading device reads the telephone number displayed on the cover of the mail addressed to the main postal jurisdiction. These scanned phone numbers are immediately followed by ■
■The computer's central processing unit immediately stores/files sent to the computer's main memory.
The telephone number of the read mail is extracted and decoded. This is then translated into a corresponding address code or detailed address. This corresponding address code or detailed address is then sent back to the main storage device ■. The main memory device (2) sends these materials to a printing device (4) where they are printed on standard envelopes, postcards, or postage cards or other designated locations.

(IV) Final Effects of Expedited Delivery Process Finally, a computer sorting and delivery device sorts and delivers these mail items (envelopes, postcards and postal cards) to each postal code area collection device. All the work for this express mail is now completed.

Each postman in charge of mail delivery takes a relaxing break from the long and stressful work of distributing mail, which they had to do on their own, and then collects the mail that has been distributed to each postal delivery area. The device (picks up the postal item corresponding to your postal code from 0 and immediately delivers it to the destination indicated by the address code.

Special considerations and cautions should be taken when establishing a postal express delivery system: The destination code or address of the read, stored, and printed mail is determined by the capacity of the computer-based main memory at the post office. . Every post office in the country should have a ``Wlli'' service center, at least if it has a ``delivery group.''

If we can share some reading and printing equipment, the effects will increase even more. It is also possible for post offices in several prefectures and cities to jointly use one central computer center and to place terminals at post offices in each area. This is determined by the size of the mail items and the conditions of the computer equipment.

When each post office operates according to the main system, it can process local mail or mail destined for the local from overseas through this assembly line. Other mail items may be delivered by the relevant post office according to the main system once they have reached their destination.

Starting from the traditional basic working method of a post office as described in procedure (I) above, the entire process of a post office based on the present invention will be explained by way of example.

Similarly, at a post office in Nagasaki, mail was received through a mailbox on the street. That's the telephone button 42 r
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Tsukitsu Ri Kazumiko 6 η is there. Another postal package arrived from a post office. According to the card attached to the parcel, the addressee address is 003-2135713J.At the same time, a postcard was sent from the Taipei Post Office.
It has been transferred. The address is r 958-85923
It says 11J. Since the destination of the previous two pieces of mail is not Nagasaki, the post office is preparing them for mailing by enclosing them in transfer mail bags bound for Tokyo and Kyoto, respectively. The latter piece of mail is combined with other mail destined for this location and processed by the express delivery system. The mail in question was placed in the envelope by an express delivery system's automatic sorting and delivery device.
6F7-34 is printed. The person in charge of postal code 85946 takes out the mail from the mail collection bag assigned to him/her.

Then, using the code that displays the addressee, the mail is promptly deposited into the post office box ``No. 3, 7th floor, Ninin-no-no, Menzo Hikiba, Shisa-cho, Matsuura City, Nagasaki Prefecture''.

First, we will explain the utility of the present invention by analyzing the effects of the current postal express delivery system. Taking Taipei City as an example, there are 1.7 million existing telephone subscribers in Taipei City. On average, approximately one million pieces of mail are handled each day. The ratio of this to telephone is 10:17. Approximately 16 post offices are stationed throughout the city to process and deliver these mails. These work mothers are divided into two work groups, namely, general classification and detailed classification. Due to the busyness of being immersed in hard work day and night,
640 people will have to be deployed. The average monthly salary for each person is recorded as 100,000 yen per month, giving a total of 64 million yen, and this year's total will be 700 million G3 million yen. According to the results of actual business negotiations with a computer company, if the system in question were purchased in Taiwan, installed, and processed by a computer, the required cost would not be 1,710 yen of the above amount. Ordinary expenses will also be reduced by less than 1/40, and after five years, you will be able to save around 3.84 billion yen. This is the situation in Taipei City, but in all of Japan, the savings are about 100 times greater, and the actual profits are amazing. At the same time, its value is enormous in terms of time and manpower savings and efficiency improvements.

Based on the foregoing points, the significant advantages of speedy delivery of mail by the method of the present invention are as follows.

(1) Both the sender and the mailman are convenient;
The level of postal processing will be significantly improved.

■ It will be possible to maintain the confidentiality of postal services, recipients, senders, etc.

■ Encourage close interaction between humans.

C) Make it possible to improve and expand the level of science and technology related to this.

(5) Even if the recipient moves from their current address, their postal code will be rehabilitated along with their telephone number, allowing the mailman to immediately re-deliver the parcel by following their footsteps. Therefore, reduce the amount of "unaddressed" mail as much as possible.

(6) It will be possible to significantly reduce the ordinary costs of postal services.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

The drawing is a diagram showing the postal express delivery process. 1...reading device, 2...memory storage device. 3... Central processing unit, 4... Printing device. 5...Classification and delivery device. Procedure Ne City Official Book (Method) July 2, 1986

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) A type of mail express delivery method in which the telephone number of the mail recipient is substituted for the detailed address, thereby facilitating the sorting, delivery and processing of the mail, and the telephone number of the mail recipient; Detailed addresses, postal address codes, etc. are stored in the storage device of the post office's central computer, a file is created, and the address code is incorporated into the address code and processed by the computer. Standard envelopes and cards are printed and distributed for the caller's use and convenience, and a telephone directory and postal address code comparison table are prepared to identify the caller.
A postal express delivery method characterized by collation and storage. (2) Claim 1, characterized in that the postal address code is compiled using a telephone number ledger organized at a telegraph office and a postal code created by the post office itself.
The method described in section. (3) A patent claim characterized in that the computer reading is carried out by computer terminals located at various locations in the post office, and the corresponding address code or detailed address and postal code stored in the central computer is called up and printed out. The method described in item 1 of the scope. (4) The method according to claim 2, wherein the address code includes a postal code, a code indicating a street, a street number, a floor code, etc.