Logistics System for Transporting Postal Items and Method for Determining a Transport Path
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Abstract
There is provided a logistics and method a logistics system for transporting a mailpiece along a transportation route within a postal distribution network, the transportation route comprising several nodes of the postal distribution network. An exemplary logistics system comprises a node that corresponds to a delivery point, the node being associated with a first unambiguous identifier and a node that corresponds to a sorting point, the second node being associated with a second unambiguous identifier. The exemplary logistics system further comprises a node that corresponds to a subsequent node in the transportation route being associated with a third unambiguous identifier, the node that corresponds to the subsequent node in the transportation route being associated with another node that either precedes or follows the subsequent node in the transportation route.
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22. A logistics system for transporting a mailpiece along a transportation route within a postal distribution network, the transportation route comprising a plurality of nodes of the postal distribution network, the logistics system comprising:
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a node that corresponds to a delivery point, the node being associated with a first unambiguous identifier; a node that corresponds to a sorting point, the second node being associated with a second unambiguous identifier; and a node that corresponds to a subsequent node in the transportation route being associated with a third unambiguous identifier, the node that corresponds to the subsequent node in the transportation route being associated with another node that either precedes or follows the subsequent node in the transportation route. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. A method for specifying a transportation route of a mailpiece within a postal distribution network, the transportation route comprising a plurality of nodes of the postal distribution network, in particular a node that corresponds to a delivery point, as well as at least one node that corresponds to a sorting point, the method comprising:
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associating an unambiguous identifier with each of the plurality of the nodes; associating one of the plurality of nodes with another of the plurality of nodes the either precedes or follows the one of the plurality of nodes along the transportation route of the mailpiece; and routing the mailpiece along the transportation route to a destination node based on the association between the one of the plurality of nodes and the another of the plurality of nodes.
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43. A logistics system that specifies a transportation route of a mailpiece within a postal distribution network, the transportation route comprising a plurality of nodes of the postal distribution network, in particular a node that corresponds to a delivery point, as well as at least one node that corresponds to a sorting point, the logistics system comprising:
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means for associating an unambiguous identifier with each of the plurality of the nodes; means for associating one of the plurality of nodes with another of the plurality of nodes the either precedes or follows the one of the plurality of nodes along the transportation route of the mailpiece; and means for routing the mailpiece along the transportation route to a destination node based on the association between the one of the plurality of nodes and the another of the plurality of nodes.
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