Mail sorting goes electronic
The forthcoming sharp increases in postal charges raise an obvious question: how far can the UK’s General Post Office forestall further increases in mechanisation?
As the Postmaster General remarked in the House of Commons, no electronic machine yet invented will walk down the path and deliver letters. But a letter undergoes elaborate adventures before it arrives at the gate, and more than one-fifth of the cost of the postal service is now spent on sorting letters and packages.
In April next year, 20 electronic sorting machines will be delivered to postal sorting offices as part of…
