(1) Yes there are the old FSMs which just sort flats and large (C4) letters. The difference in missort levels is downEthilfrog wrote:We don't have a FSM in our MC but we do get the half-full boxes from elsewhere of course, and we sort them manually. Two things:
(1) We get a very high level of missorts from all FSM senders (must worse than the manual bundles we still get from some small centres), but some are consistently worse than others. Is there more than one sort of FSM?
(2) It's obvious that FSM owners just chuck everything they have into their machines, and sometimes we get large quantities of mech letters coded by the FSM. We find that our LSMs won't read the FSM codes. Sensible, or what?
to who is coding the letters.Coding is not done by a computer as with mech letters, but have to be read and
processed by a human operator. More experienced (probably ex-PHG) operators would know the sorting better
than the less experienced or inadequately trained operators.
(2) The old FSMs are used to sort flats and C4 letters, the new Tops2000 FSMs can also be used to sort small packets
and more bulky items like magazines. Those are the ones that have the sticky bar codes attached - often covering
the address.
