Ha ha! just what i thought!BELIAL wrote: Mostly I agree with that statement . The new sequencing machines are very accurate ,relatively few miss sorts in the sequenced mail, and you do save about 7 minutes on your daily prep.
You are however completely wrong about there being less IPS. Since the start of our trial of sequenced mail, time spent on IPS has increased by roughly 15 minutes per day. Judging by the pattern of this extra manual sorting it looks as if the new machines are very particular about what they can process . It seems that walk sorted mail is fed in and a large percentage is rejected. This previously ws. mail then turns up at the DO as mixed trays.
All in all so far this bit of modernisation has produced 8mins time cost,1 extra process ,later mail and a huge rise in miss sort volumes. Looks like the quality figures will take a nosedive,wonder if the auditors are watching
These Walk Sequencing Machines don't automate any more mail than at present.And why would they. They have no O.C.R. capability and whatever tech is used to read the orange "route codes" and Customer barcodes (C.B.C.) can't be any better than the existing machines within the Mail Centres.
When I keep hearing people on here saying there will be less I.P.S. I was under the impression that they might be putting the LSM/IMP rejects through these machines as well to increase the automation rate but......
Although our Mail Centre has no Walk Sequencers or Flat Machines. In the lead up to Pegasus we were asked what we thought about "Roading" the walksorted mail using the existing L.S.M.s. In other words the mail would be grouped by street but not sequenced. This might help the reserves or anyone throwing up a walk they are not familiar with, but the time savings wouldn't be that great with the regular walkman?