Correos acquires six new automatic sorting lines

Correos has acquired six new automatic sorting lines for ordinary mail to reinforce the equipment of its 17 Automatic Sorting Offices located throughout Spain. The aim of this investment is to improve the quality of the postal service and increase management capacity in specific areas in order to implement the post office’s Automation Plan. The investment amounts to €15.47 million and the lines will be implemented within a period of 18 months.

The six new lines will be installed in the new sorting office for local mail in the city of Barcelona (three lines); in the first Automated Sorting Office in Castilla La Mancha, which is in Ciudad Real (one line); and in the new Automated Sorting Office in Alicante (two lines).

Each sorting line consists of an optical reader with automatic character recognition and a classifying machine. This is cutting edge technology that is capable of automatically sorting 40,000 deliveries per hour, which has already been proven through the experience with other such equipment that has already been installed, thus ensuring compatibility, continuity and standardisation with other stages of the project and continuity in the Automation Plan.

Improving quality
The acquisition of this new equipment will contribute to considerable improvement in the quality of the company’s processes and in the working conditions of the employees of Correos. The post office will also have greater resources for handling occasional increases in the volume of deliveries, as this increase in equipment means that more deliveries can be handled in the same periods. In addition to these improvements, there are also benefits for productivity and organisation, not only in the newly created Automatic Sorting Offices, but also in existing sorting offices, which will benefit from the reassignment of lines as well as being freed from the additional loads that they have had to cope with until now.

The contracts for these six new lines include a year’s guarantee, full maintenance and spare parts service during the guarantee period, installation and preparation of the equipment, documentation and training courses for employees.

This investment is part of Correos’ Automation Plan, the objective of which is to improve delivery quality. To date, 16 of the 17 planned Automatic Sorting Offices have been put into service (the 17th will be coming into service shortly in Alicante).

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