NEC provides Swiss Post with the latest mail processing systems

NEC’s
Latest Mail Processing Systems

(Culler
Facer Cancellers) at Swiss Post

Tokyo,
December 19, 2016
– NEC
Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that Swiss Post, Switzerland’s
national postal service, has signed a contract for Culler Facer Cancellers
(CFC) in support of postal automation. NEC is scheduled to supply thirteen
systems for three of Swiss Post’s large-scale mail sorting centers by February
2019*.

These
CFCs automatically identify the destination of small postal items and process
them based on their size, thickness and weight, as well as adjust their
alignment and manage the application of postmarks, all of which was formerly
carried out by hand.

In
addition to being able to effectively sort small size packages that have
conventionally been difficult for machines to process, these advanced new CFCs
are capable of processing as many as 38,000 postal items per hour the size of
C4 envelopes (used for A4 size documents), the thickness of 8mm and a weight of
300g.

In
2003, Swiss Post initiated its ReEngineering of the Mail Automation (REMA)
project for improving the sorting structure of the company’s mail process. As
part of this project, NEC has provided eight Flat Sorting Machines for
automatically reading the destinations and sorting large postal items. NEC
regards this latest order of CFCs as recognition of the company’s technological
strength and contributions to Swiss Post.

Since
entering the field in 1961, NEC has delivered postal automation systems to more
than fifty countries throughout the world. Looking forward, NEC will continue
capitalizing on the latest technologies to improve postal administrations
across the globe.