MAIL ADDRESSING ERRORS USING EXTENDED CLIENT CODES

摘要

The invention concerns a method for suppressing addressing errors of mail items in a sorting, routing and distributing procedure (8, 10) carried out b y a postal operator on mail items (3') which are delivered to him by a client mail item addressor of the postal operator which consists in: generating identification numbers (I) of mail items respectively for the mail items to be processed in the sorting, routing and distributing procedure, said identification numbers (I) being respectively affixed by machine and registered in an electronic file (F) corresponding to data (A) representing postal addresses of the mail items. Said identification numbers (I) of mail items or extended client codes are generated by the mail item addressor and affixed by the latter on the mail articles before being delivered to the postal operator. The file (F) containing the identification numbers of the mail items corresponding to data representing postal addresses is also produced by the mail item addressor and transmitted by the latter to the postal operator.