Michiel de RijckeHead of Research & Development

Prime Vision

ADDRESSING: IMPACTS & USAGEIs there a need for a single addressing platform in Europe?

Post-Expo 2014Stockholm

Who are Prime Vision?

• Part of a postal operator ourselves;• Core technology developer in reading and coding systems;• Middleware developer between sorting systems, decision

systems and IT;

Partners with posts to develop automation solutions or reutilize existing investments in automation and software in new ways;

Addressing has impacts throughout post

Essential for efficient and reliable sorting of mail. Badly addressed mail: won’t be automatically sorted to deep level requires expensive human intelligence to

get delivered Is a source of misdelivaries ends up in floating mail

Poor addressing frustrates operations, routing and delivery

Addressing has impacts throughout post

Quality of addressing is an key factor to achieve high automation rates (by data entry and automatic coding);

But also the quality of the address database of the post is a key factor…

And also the correspondence of actual addressing and the posts address database…

How we use addressing at Prime Vision

Prime Vision is a technology provider and innovator

We develop smart tailored software solutions or tooling to deal with poor, unofficial addressing, deal with sparsely filled address databases, to improve the quality of addresses of the

customers …

How we use addressing at Prime Vision

Ireland: Enrich database (by address learning) with names. Inward performance uplift +2-3%, sequence level +5%.

Netherlands: Address quality of secondary numbers is poor. Use redundant addressee information to uplift sequence performance by 0,3%.

Netherlands: Large shippers are to validate their addresses before shipment via an online service. Validation errors will be rejected or alternative will be given.

Better addressing: the benefits I see

Reduction manual handling in the sorting operations, i.e. higher automation rates;

Improving quality of delivery by reducing sorting or sequencing error;

Enabling smarter solutions such as route-planning, delivery round sequencing;

Better addressing: discussion points

How to capture (and trust) data for better addressing?; How to compile address databases with minimal effort (Address

Learning)? Data protection legislation across Europe

Thanks for your attention!

ADDRESSING: IMPACTS & USAGEIs there a need for a single addressing platform in Europe?

Michiel de RijckeHead of Research & Development

Prime Vision

Thanks for your attention!

ADDRESSING: IMPACTS & USAGEIs there a need for a single addressing platform in Europe?

Michiel de RijckeHead of Research & Development

Prime Vision