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The letter sorting equipment will continue the present system which Hong Kong was the first in the world to adopt for machine-reading and sorting letters without the necessity of postcodes or zip codes. It will comprise a unit of Culler- Facer-Canceller for facing and datestamping letters, two Optical Character Recognition (OCR) units with on-line and off-line video coding facilities, two Letter Sorting units and an automatic letter-bundle wrapping unit. The Culler-Facer- Canceller, the OCR and Letter Sorting units can process about 30,000 letters per machine-hour.
There will also be two Packet Sorting Machines and one Parcel Sorting Machine. Their hourly output will be 10,000 and 6,000 items per machine respectively. The Packet Sorting Machines will be the first equipment of its kind to be introduced in Hong Kong for processing airmail packets, the volume of which has been increasing every year. The machine output is about four times that of the existing manual sorting system.
The storage and retrieval system is designed to suit both mail bags and airline containers. Nowadays more and more advanced postal administrators are moving away from use of the conventional mail bags in favour of despatching mail in airline containers. Airline containers are larger than conventional mail bags and they can accommodate mail in loose form. The use of containers will therefore speed up the processing of mail resulting in higher quality of service accorded to the mail. The provision of such facility at the New Air Mail Centre will bring Hong Kong in line with the advanced mail handling systems of other major postal administrations.
The provision of the Postal Mechanisation System will fully mechanise the airmail operation at the New Air Mail Centre. It will be a major milestone in the history of the Hong Kong Post Office.
End/Sunday, April 2, 1995
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The Social Welfare Department is looking for volunteers to help with the rehabilitation of offenders.
People, aged 21 or above, with secondary school education, mature personality and an interest in the rehabilitation of offenders, are invited to join the Volunteer Scheme for Probationers (VSP).