NEC updates postal automation system for Hongkong Post

NEC updates postal automation system

for Hongkong Post

– Function for reading and sorting
addresses written in

traditional Chinese
characters newly introduced –  

Tokyo, February 13,
2017 – NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that it has
introduced a function for reading and sorting  addresses written in
traditional Chinese characters to the postal automation systems operated by
Hongkong Post, the postal administration of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China.

  

Postal automation system inside the
Central Mail Centre

In recent years,
Hong Kong has witnessed a rise in the number of postal items addressed in
traditional Chinese characters. This has in turn boosted the need for automated
sorting and processing of addresses written in traditional Chinese characters
in addition to those handwritten or printed in English.

This new function
has been introduced to 15 systems delivered to Hongkong Post by NEC on several
occasions since 2008 that are currently in operation at the Central Mail Centre
in Kowloon Bay. The introduction of this function enables the automatic sorting
and processing of up to 564,000 postal items with addresses written in
traditional Chinese characters per hour, thereby contributing to the
improvement of Hongkong Post’s operational efficiency.

NEC has been doing
business with Hongkong Post for approximately 30 years since the postal
operator’s introduction of a postal automation system in the latter half of the
1980s. The introduction of this function was made possible by the high acclaim
NEC has received over the years for its achievements and technological
capabilities.

NEC began
developing its postal automation system business in 1961, and has since then
delivered systems to postal operators in more than 50 countries around the
world. In Japan, domestic postal operators have utilized a function for reading
and sorting addresses written in Chinese characters as part of postal
automation processing since the 1980s. The introduction of this function by
Hongkong Post was made possible by applying the wealth of knowhow NEC has
developed in Japan over the years in reading and sorting addresses written in
Chinese characters. Moreover, it has resulted in increased efficiency and a
reduction in the amount of time needed for processing.