Mail service picks up speed in Dandenong
The Dandenong Letters Centre has accelerated its Australia Post service with the help of a new machine.
Launched recently, the sorting machine is set to speed up the delivery and sorting of large letters and satchels. The innovation is another milestone event for 2019, a year that also marked the centre’s 20th year of operation.
The sorting machine also extends the facility in Dandenong South to incorporate more than the traditional sorting of letters. The machine’s tracking capabilities are set to provide customers with increased visibility.
According to Rod Hoober who manages the facility, the technology also features character recognition to identify ecommerce stores’ barcodes and also to read parcel labels and the addresses thereon. The creation of company labels can be provided by printing services countrywide.
Hoober said the machine has effectively given the centre improved processing power with 120,000 items sorted on one day when it was first introduced and up to 200,000 predicted during peak periods. Hoober added:
Australia Post’s Bob Black explained that the Dandenong Letters Centre, which processes about 15 million items a week, was a natural choice for the new sorting machine, being centrally located amid a big field of ecommerce firms including Amazon.
Launched recently, the sorting machine is set to speed up the delivery and sorting of large letters and satchels. The innovation is another milestone event for 2019, a year that also marked the centre’s 20th year of operation.
The sorting machine also extends the facility in Dandenong South to incorporate more than the traditional sorting of letters. The machine’s tracking capabilities are set to provide customers with increased visibility.
According to Rod Hoober who manages the facility, the technology also features character recognition to identify ecommerce stores’ barcodes and also to read parcel labels and the addresses thereon. The creation of company labels can be provided by printing services countrywide.
Hoober said the machine has effectively given the centre improved processing power with 120,000 items sorted on one day when it was first introduced and up to 200,000 predicted during peak periods. Hoober added:
“We weren’t sorting parcels within this facility; it was a letters facility for the first 20 years of its life. With the decline in letters we’re moving to parcels, so it’s created opportunity within Dandenong.”
Australia Post’s Bob Black explained that the Dandenong Letters Centre, which processes about 15 million items a week, was a natural choice for the new sorting machine, being centrally located amid a big field of ecommerce firms including Amazon.