Integrated mail processing

Integrated mail processing (IMP) is the new method that the Royal Mail today sorts the mail (in bulk) before delivery.

History

The Royal Mail has 39 mail centres and around 1,350 delivery offices from 115,000 post boxes, and handles around 82 million posted items a day. Nine Elms in the London Borough of Wandsworth has the largest sorting office in Britain, employing around 1,000 people. The USA has 21 Network Distribution Centers, which pass mail onto a sectional center facility.

Royal Mail has been implementing integrated mail processing technology since 1999.^[1]

Function

The system works by automated optical character recognition of postcodes. Integrated mail processors scan the front and back of an envelope and translate addresses into machine-readable code. Letters are given a red barcode that represents the address. The barcode follows the RM4SCC pattern.

Per mail item there are over 250 types of information that are collected from mail class to indicia type.

References

↑ Computing February 2004

Mail Technology: Evolution to E-Revolution ISBN 9781860583278

External links

Integrated Mail Processing at Royal Mail

Postal services in the United Kingdom

Postal geography	Postcodes List of postcodes List of postcode areas List of postcode districts Postal counties Post town List of post towns London postal district Postcode Address File Mailsort

Organisations and philately	Royal Mail Post Office British Forces Post Office Parcelforce Postage stamps and postal history Whistl

Infrastructure	Delivery office Integrated mail processing Intelligent Letter Sorting Machine Mail centre

British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have different operators and regulatory arrangements.

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Integrated mail processing

History

Function

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References

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