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Correos has installed new automated sorting equipment in Madrid. President of Correos, Jose Damian Santiago said: “This is a real milestone and marks the way that we have to continue. We need this new technology to guarantee a high level of service”

The new equipment, estimated to have cost around 1.2m euros, heralds a new technological age for Correos, which says it will not only vastly improve the way it handles mail but that the sender and recipient will be able to know at any given time, where in the postal system the mail is. It can also give predicted delivery dates.

The initiative forms part of a range of technology it intends to introduce to modernise and automate its mail handling capabilities. It says the changes will apply both to business and domestic customers.

Correos is still a publicly-owned company and is split into various divisions and business units, as well as five Corporate Departments. The group also includes the affiliated companies Chronoexprés, Correo Híbrido and Correos Telecom. Correos distributes more than 5,900 millon deliveries each year and reaches 19 millon homes and two million companies.

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.