Correos' Alicante 'ASC' is already working at full capacity
Correos has opened the Alicante Automated Sorting Centre (ASC). With its commissioning, the 17 ASC’s planned in the postal company’s Automation Plan are up and running. The company has already started to organise the creation of a new ASC in Ciudad Real to improve its automated mail and parcel sorting centre network.
On 30 June, the Alicante ASC started to run experimentally and from yesterday onwards it will be running at full capacity. It is now sorting 1.5 million mail deliveries a day: 40,000 per hour in each standard mail sorting machine, and 15,000 per hour in the non-standard mail sorting machine. Its commissioning will improve the quality of the postal service, and make delivery work easier for the more than 800 postmen and women in the province of Alicante and the Region of Murcia.
The operation of this ASC allows for more than 80 pct of mail distributed in Alicante and Murcia with the subsequent improvement in delivery times.
Correos has invested EUR 36.34 million in the Alicante ASC.
This centre, with a built surface area of over 17,000 m2, has a staff of 170 workers in three shifts (mornings, evenings and nights) with 13 loading bays for lorries and 14 for vans.
The commissioning of this new centre concludes CORREOS’ Automation Plan and is in line with the company’s set of actions aimed at modernising, extending and renovating its logistics, distribution and customer service centre network. All of this is designed to offer citizens and businesses more functional installations equipped with technological resources and guaranteeing a postal service with the optimum quality, efficiency and accessibility.
Correos has opened the Alicante Automated Sorting Centre (ASC). With its commissioning, the 17 ASC’s planned in the postal company’s Automation Plan are up and running. The company has already started to organise the creation of a new ASC in Ciudad Real to improve its automated mail and parcel sorting centre network.
On 30 June, the Alicante ASC started to run experimentally and from yesterday onwards it will be running at full capacity. It is now sorting 1.5 million mail deliveries a day: 40,000 per hour in each standard mail sorting machine, and 15,000 per hour in the non-standard mail sorting machine. Its commissioning will improve the quality of the postal service, and make delivery work easier for the more than 800 postmen and women in the province of Alicante and the Region of Murcia.
The operation of this ASC allows for more than 80 pct of mail distributed in Alicante and Murcia –all that sent to large urban population centres and the main towns- to reach the postmen and women already sorted at the beginning of their morning shifts, with the subsequent improvement in delivery times.
Correos has invested EUR 36.34 million in the Alicante ASC. The most important items have been infrastructures (EUR 25.68 million, in the purchase of the plot of land for building the centre) and in sorting equipment (EUR 10.54 million in the purchase and installation of 1 post-box mail separator/ emptier/ canceller, 2 automatic standard-mail sorting lines, 1 machine for sorting large format non-standard mail, 1 document digitalisation machine and 3 automatic label generating stations for manual processes).
This centre, with a built surface area of over 17,000 m2, has a staff of 170 workers in three shifts (mornings, evenings and nights) with 13 loading bays for lorries and 14 for vans.
The commissioning of this new centre concludes CORREOS’ Automation Plan and is in line with the company’s set of actions aimed at modernising, extending and renovating its logistics, distribution and customer service centre network. All of this is designed to offer citizens and businesses more functional installations equipped with technological resources and guaranteeing a postal service with the optimum quality, efficiency and accessibility.
