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66 SIXTY-SIX DAYS ON THE WAY IN SHARAPOVO. International mail RG899940975CN. Parcel on the way 72 SEVENTY TWO DAYS... Of their 6 days, passing through China and arriving at the MR LC Vnukovo Sharapovo 102976 Shop-1. From September 15 to September 21, import to the country of destination. MR LC Vnukovo Sharapovo 102976 Shop-1, before Customs clearance, Released by customs 102976 MR LC Vnukovo Sharapovo Shop-1, 3 three days. Further departure "ON THE WAY" from MR LC Vnukovo Sharapovo 102976 Shop-1, to MR LC Vnukovo Sharapovo 102975 47 FORTY SEVEN DAYS!!! In MR LC Vnukovo Sharapovo 102975 already 18 EIGHTEEN days!!! She was wanted, the documents attached to the search application were safely lost by mail (documents were drawn up with witnesses, the head of the post office and all the documents attached to the procedure). In the search for Sharapovo's legal address, and wherever he was looking for (for filing an application with the court, specifically against Sharapovo), no one had any information. But I came across one address, namely the annex to the order for N 54n / 162. In the document "Appendix to the order of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation dated March 31, 2017, N 54n / 162 on the places of international postal exchange, which are objects of postal service, on the territory of the Russian Federation, there is a place under paragraph 10 in which and Sharapovo is mentioned. I didn’t happen to see Sharapovo in any of the documents, probably it began to exist only in 2017. It is this settlement (village) Marushkinskoye, near the village (village) Sharapovo, Moscow, 108809. Here is such a jur. address. I think N.V. Gogol with Evenings on a farm near Dikanka, nervously stands aside. Judging by this "appendix to the order", the document is directly related to two departments - the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, but interestingly, the Federal Customs Service is not included in the appendix, unlike other documents. Isn't that why the period (at least for me it came to the Russian Federation and Customs clearance, Released by customs. Was a maximum of three days) remained within reasonable limits. And now you can think, what does it (legal address) have to do with people who have lost hope of waiting for their parcels and what is happening with them? In my personal opinion, directly, our paid parcels go to the address; to the VILLAGE TO GRANDFATHER. All post office numbers marked Sharapovo, but it seems to be the same thing (if it really exists at all), will be able to give birth to more than one site (Aliexpress is now in the Russian Federation) or something along the same lines. We will buy our parcels there, and when international shipments become completely impossible to receive, we will run to boutiques and online stores in the Russian segment, father-in-law to resellers. We will take imported goods or renamed import substitution, ten times more expensive. The most vile thing is that without being able to find out the legal addresses of such branches as No. 102976, No. 102975, etc., etc., we are deprived of the legal constitutional right to sue them (the parcels are paid for by us, they are located at incomprehensible addresses and sometimes have an amount falling under the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). And judging by Internet complaints, missing and undelivered parcels can already be measured in tonnage. Based on recent events, this can be presented as a successful business model (especially in the logistics section, in-demand goods) of certain individuals. By the way, why everywhere to indexes without legal entities. addresses to which no one can really answer anything, they shove the bodies. those. customer support 8-800-2005-888. Or is it such a subtle mockery, like (how to apply for a wanted list) flaunting on pochta.ru at the track. Thank you, we know, already filed! Written only personal opinion and observation based on my personal experience.

In November 2013, the Russian media reported in the background that the Russian Post had opened a new logistics center for handling international mail.

The news passed in the background, but even before the celebration of the New Year 2013/2014, thanks to this center, it was possible to avoid the pre-New Year collapse, which was standard for the Russian Post earlier, with a delay in parcels and mail coming from abroad.

By the end of 2014, the new logistics center reached full capacity and now processes up to 300,000 shipments per day!

Now everything that you ordered for the New Year will be in your hands really by the New Year, and not by the new school year)))

I managed to visit a specially organized tour of this object and see everything with my own eyes.

Let's get a look!

In the photo below you can see that the Russian Post is not going to stop there, because everything that I have already described is located only in the 1st building!

And there are 6 of them in total! So the Russian Post is going to grow and expand further:

A tour of the sorting (aka logistics) center was conducted by Alexey Skatin, Deputy General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Post of Russia" with his colleagues.

Here he is! :)

The security at the sorting center complies!

And, believe me, at the Post Office everyone understands everything. New Year, everyone is waiting for the parcel and quickly.

Therefore ... :) put a reminder:

But we didn't come here for the sake of the trees.

The fact is that now about half of the total Russian volume of international mail is processed in this center. The incoming flow of this mail.

And it was possible to do this only thanks to modern technologies and a high level of automation.

Moreover, this is generally the first such facility in Russia, in which the customs clearance of international postal items is combined with their automated sorting according to delivery directions. But we will talk about customs separately.

Take a better look at this sparkling red-eyed giant:

No, this is not an automatic incinerator of your mail, and not even a system for obfuscating mail in the warehouses of the Russian Post :) A couple of years ago, the Russian Post, thanks also to new personnel (such as Alexei Skatin), abandoned this direction :)))

A couple of years ago, the Russian Post headed for a total change in old processes and the installation of new equipment.

For example, in this logistics and sorting center were installed:

Multi-sorter for all types of mail
- Conveyor systems for transporting bags, shipments and boxes
-Mobile conveyors with retractable sections
- Multi-beam scanners for reading information and devices for sorting items by size
-And other latest technologies that allow you to automate and speed up the process of processing shipments as much as possible

Naturally, the year is not yet 2115, and the process cannot do without people:

Here, postal items are scanned in order to put a mark in the system that they have arrived in Russia and will now go for customs clearance.

Yes, the package is flying :) More on that later.

A little out of order, but this is how customs unloads and controls the arrival of a certain amount of parcels on the territory of Russia:

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By the way, this is a bag from China - basically I saw only them.

The flow of shipments from China is sooo large:

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Then the bags are delivered to the managers of the incoming bags))) I don't know what these people's positions are called, but they do an important job:

They take a parcel out of the bag, direct the scanner to the sticker on it, all the information is automatically entered into the computer, and they make a quick check on whether the information from the sticker was scanned correctly. If everything is fine, then press “OK”, and a mark is put in the tracking of the Russian Post that your shipment is now in Russia.

Your shipment is placed on the tape and leaves for the customs scanner.

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“How does it leave if nothing leaves ?!,” you ask looking at the photo above.

Yes, there are such clusters.

And now, I will surprise you, but this is for your own good.

The fact is that 300,000 shipments per day is a very large load. And if people start to make mistakes, then you will not receive your package soon. And what should be done so that people do not make mistakes?

That's right - to comply with working conditions. (not the only condition, of course. but very important)

The rules for work breaks are posted for everyone to see! Depending on the level of load, everyone is entitled to a certain number of breaks. And they are following it.

Therefore, in the photo you can see that on the one hand a few parcels have already accumulated. It's not much, trust me.

Here are the rules. I was especially pleased with the cats showing exercises for the eyes))) If there are cats, then everything will definitely be fine with the Russian Post:

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As I already wrote, this is the first facility in which the customs clearance of international postal items is combined with their automated sorting according to delivery directions.

For the first time in Russian history, it was possible to unite the Russian Post and the Customs Service under one roof in a single process!

For example, in Japan, these are completely different processes located in different places.

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Immediately after the mark of arrival in Russia, the mail is sent to the scanner to the customs officers:

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If nothing illegal is found there, then your parcel automatically receives a status in the tracking system (tracking) that the customs check has been passed and the parcel has gone for sorting.

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But in some cases, your parcel will be opened!

For example, this incident happened right during the tour:

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If I remember correctly, only with me a knife passed through the scanner and 2 were already unpacked!

In general, thanks to such a check, several dozen criminal cases were initiated, and some characters were even sent to prison ... Such cases. So don't order anything illegal.

In the case of opening the parcel, everything becomes more complicated and the parcel will take a long time. Since in this case, everything needs to be photographed, recorded, etc. In general, in this case, paperwork cannot be avoided, even if everything is legal.

In other cases, all incoming shipments have a sticker on which one half is intended for scanning by the sending side, the second for scanning by the Russian side.

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If customs has no questions, then they scan the sticker and ... voila! Customs cleared :)

Well, maybe there are some other nuances, but in general something like this :)

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And immediately after passing through customs, employees of the Russian Post lay out the items in trays and send them to the sorting machine:

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By the way, all zones in the center are divided by numbers. And each employee works only in his area of responsibility:

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And taking into account the fact that the customs is located right there, there is even a fence between the zones!

In the panorama below (*you can click on it and see it in a larger resolution!) You can see this fence.

If any package crosses this fence, without checking in at customs, it is smuggling. And smuggling is punishable in accordance with the criminal code! Roughly speaking, the area behind the fence from the sorting machine is, as it were, a conditionally neutral space BEFORE Russia. That is, what is behind the fence is actually already in Russia, but not yet legally.

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On the panorama, you can also see that the parcels go up along the travolator.

At the top, they fall under the all-seeing eye of the scanner, which reads information from the label on the package:

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Based on the reading results, the package is sent to the conveyor, and information about the reading results is processed in the computer, which determines where exactly the package should be sent next.

At the entrance of the parcel to the conveyor, there is another scanner that determines which carriage the scanned parcel has landed on:

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This magical process happens like this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0EyJeM-KvI

And now, as promised, let's get back to flying parcels :)

In the photo below, I even photographed this incredible process))) I could not resist.

And, of course, I asked Alexei Skatin a question about how lawful and adequate it is.

It turned out that negotiations were held separately with Chinese mail and the subsequent huge work to standardize the packaging of the parcel! That is, each parcel is packed in such a way that it cannot be damaged. And your parcels remain safe. This applies to all parcels. But only parcels up to a certain weight and without a certain marking can fly.

If on your parcel is pasted or written "carefully", "glass", "do not throw", "careful handling", etc. then they will only work with it manually! The same applies to parcels with a large weight.

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Regardless of what is happening in the photo above. I personally observed how the same woman carried some parcels by hand. Even when it was very uncomfortable for her due to crookedly placed cells for parcels. And then threw the others away again.

I mean, it really works. After all, for example, it makes no sense to manually wear phone cases. But it’s definitely not worth throwing some heavy shipments.

Moreover, if employees are seen in violation of this rule, they will miss a large part of their remuneration for their work.

By the way, in the photo above and below, the so-called "Hospital" for parcels :)

The parcels get here if for some reason they cannot be processed by the sorting machine, then they are “treated” here, the mistakes on the label are corrected, a new one is printed, glued, and sent back to the sorting machine.

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Judging by the photo of the "Hospital" above, the rule of rest is strictly observed :) I think that this is good. I would not like to see angry, not rested and inattentive people handle the mail.

And below is a photo of the layout of the sorting center.

My photo was greased, of course, but the main thing is clear - the Shipping Area (1) for processing and the Mail Receiving Area (10) (that is, sending further across Russia) of already processed parcels located on opposite sides of the complex. This ensures the correct phased passage and processing of parcels through this complex. Well, it becomes almost impossible to confuse something.

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And this is the central touch monitor for controlling this powerful machine.

It immediately lights up with a certain color of the zone where something goes wrong. Or everything is lit green - this means that everything is fine:

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Here you can see how each of the carriages on the conveyor is doing, and in which carriage what lies. If some carriage travels over the load for too long without sorting it, it is marked in a different color. And in 99% of the case, the machine itself sends parcels that it cannot sort to the “hospital”.

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This whole giant machine costs about 5,000,000 euros.

And her energy consumption, as they say, is just like a few irons;)

And here, in the photo below, you can see the diagram of the entire machine and affect its performance. For example, speed up the rotation of the conveyor :) Or stop everything.

By the way, this machine uses modern carriages with either magnetic or magnetic bases that help sort mail. Plus, the surface of the carriages is made of such a material that trays with parcels do not slip off.

For example, in Germany, wooden carriages are used in sorting centers, because these centers were built there more than 30 years ago!

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And on this screen you can see the “pulse” of the sorting machine.

As you can see, there are no failures or failures, there were only a couple of parcels that accidentally drove into 2 carriages at once:

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Here they are, parcels, riding at high altitude, waiting to be sorted:

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When they reach the desired hill, the carriage throws them straight to the employee, who sorts the items already into bags for sending to your home!

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There are enough slides for everyone! :)

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Some parcels even have to wait as long as 15 minutes! :)

For the Russian Post, this is close to the speed of light compared to what it was only 2 years ago:

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Now pay attention to how the last stage goes.

The Russian Post decided to step over the 30-50 year delay gap and immediately step into the future:

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Each employee on the hump has a special scanner with a device attached to the hand and finger:

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Each parcel that goes down the hill is scanned and marked as it passes at this stage, after which it is thrown into a bag of a certain direction.

After that, the tracking system will have a status that the parcel has been sent from Moscow to your region:

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I even found my home region here :)

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After filling the bag, it is placed in a cage and brought to the gate:

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After the introduction of this sorting center the number of claims against the Russian Post decreased by 25%!

The quality assessment according to some international standards before the introduction of this center was funny to say 3.5%! Three and a half! :))) And now this figure is 90%!

By the way, the deadline for such a departure in Moscow was reduced to 3 days. I'll have to check it out for myself :)

And below - the last photo! Panorama! You can and should click on it to view it in a larger size.

By the way, on the left, under the number nine, and a little to the right, you can see special catching nets for those items that you forgot to put on the tray (they then slide off). Check out the latest photo-beauty:

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By the way, parcels up to 50 kg pass through this center. Heavier shipments are processed somewhere else.

By the way, in terms of installing equipment, Russia, in a sense, has a big bonus.

The bonus is that we have nothing! :) And this means that now we are installing the newest equipment possible!

Here things like:
-Automated sorting of all types of mail
- In-line mail processing method without warehousing
-Electronic data exchange with postal operators
-Rejection of paper forms and simplification of processing technologies

And by the middle of 2015, the Russian Post plans to transfer such centers to 100% electronic document management. Including with regard to interaction with the Customs Service. You understand, it is not so easy to come to an agreement with such a state structure as the Customs…

But it is worth noting that what we were shown is only the first milestone even in this location near Vnukovo Airport.

By 2022, the mail processing center will expand and automate even more. And they will process here not only international, but also domestic Russian shipments. And then the volume of processed mail will reach almost 22,000,000 (millions!) units per month!

If you have any questions - ask! The employees of the Russian Post promised to answer any of the most tricky and incredible questions regarding this center and the processing of international shipments.

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On April 7, 2015, the most active customers and employees of the Russian Post, everyone who wished to sign up, went to excursion to the Logistic postal center of the Russian Post "Vnukovo". It's so cool to see how Mail works from the inside! The tour was led by the Deputy Head of the Production Center Dmitry Yakovlev, a very passionate person who told us a lot of interesting things. We share the details with you!

The logistics postal center "Vnukovo" is located in New Moscow, near the village of Sharapovo, near the airport "Vnukovo", which is why it got its name. The center began its work in November 2013, its service area includes all subjects of the Russian Federation. The total area of the Center is 60,000 m2.

The building of the Center, in which 6 buildings attached to each other, was purchased by the Russian Post specifically for this project / For other similar automated centers in Podolsk and St. Petersburg, the buildings were built by equipment manufacturing companies, and here a ready-made building was chosen and now under a contract with Toshiba (Japan), it is equipped with equipment. Then, in 2013, from the moment the decision was made to create such a logistics center, to its launch, 3 months passed - this is a very short time for a state-owned company.

Now the Center has been launched at one third of the capacity that is planned in the future, but at the same time the numbers are impressive! Compare: in 2012-2013. during the peak period (December-January), 77 thousand mail items were processed per day. And now - up to 400-600 thousand per day! At the same time, the delivery time was greatly accelerated.

Now at the Vnukovo Center only international small packages are processed and only from South East Asia(China, Singapore, etc.). These are the same parcels that fly to Russia from the sites "aliexpress.com", "alibaba.com" and many others where Russians like to shop. Interestingly, Chinese Post does not have established postage formats in which they must send parcels (boxes of certain sizes, etc.), so parcels from there come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes: from a small bag to a huge box. The Vnukovo Center processes small packages, and any postal item falls under the category "small package" if its weight is less than 5 kg. Therefore, there you can find parcels of all shapes and sizes. But, of course, most of them are "small forms".

Works at the Center first and fifth buildings, each of which has Toshiba sorting equipment. Machines differ in power: in the fifth building equipment designed for sorting the so-called micro bags, has 250 exits ("hills" through which packages roll into bags), and in the first building there are 40 such "hills". The machine in the fifth building is capable of sorting mail up to 12 thousand pieces per hour (!). The real load is currently about 8 thousand per day. This is due to the fact that the 5th building is still in the process of testing and improving all processes. Also, the difference between these multisorters is that in the fifth case the machine is not cyclic, but in the first case it is vice versa. That is, if the scanner did not recognize which "exit" to send the parcel to, in the fifth case this parcel is sent for manual sorting immediately, and in the first case it can make several attempts to scan the data again. And then, if necessary, the parcel is also sent for manual sorting.

Much is automated on the assembly line, but manual labor remains. Up to 10% of packages go to manual sorting, because when the address is written in the "left Chinese hand" in Latin, the scanner has some difficulty reading. :)

Separately, it should be said about mobile terminals. This is such a "gadget" that operators wear on their hands. The terminal weighs 400 grams (try to wear almost half a kilo on your arm for a whole day!), and with its help, the Center employee scans the barcodes and forms the final bags with mail in the directions.

On average, through the operator working on sorting in the fifth building, passes about 6000 small bags per day, and in the first case - 3500-4000 bags per day. After sorting, the operator closes the bags with a plastic seal, piercing the "neck" of the bag through and through so that it is impossible to open it. Next, invoices are formed, statements and bags of mail are sent to the first building and formed for shipment in containers. By the way, reusable bags and used several times.

We were also told that the salary at the Center is about 30 thousand rubles, the schedule is a day / three, a full social package, employees are fed, brought and taken away by buses. Many people find such conditions attractive, so there is always a long line of people who want to work.

More interesting facts: the Center has "Yantar" system, which checks mailings for radioactivity, There is "hospital"- this is the place where the parcel gets, whose barcode was not considered by the scanner. Most parcels are placed on blue plastic trays and secured with a rubber band. This is to prevent small envelopes from falling through the machine.

Also on the territory of the Vnukovo Center is Federal Customs Service. It is she who checks suspicious parcels, spending 100 packs of paper per day on her activities. And here the main document flow of the Center is electronic. Previously, the Russian operator had to manually enter the recipient's address into the system, and this took about two minutes. And now the data is transmitted via the Internet, because when the mail is received, the operator enters the data into the computer. The Russian side only has to read the barcode and check the correspondence of the data on the envelope and in the "base", which reduces the processing time to 30 seconds. And most of these packages.

The tour turned out to be very eventful. Many thanks to Russian Post for this opportunity! I hope you enjoyed reading and watching our report! :)

P.S. Everyone who wants to get on such an excursion - catch the news on the official pages of the Russian Post in social networks.

Each region of the country has its own branch of the Russian Post - the regional administration of the federal postal service. All branches are geographically divided into ten macro-regions. The total number of post offices exceeds 40 thousand. There are two branches in Moscow and the Moscow region, united in the Moscow macro-region. Also on the territory of the region there is a logistics center "Vnukovo", which processes international mail, and an automated sorting center (ASC), located near Podolsk. In them, parcels and letters are distributed and sent to post offices in six regions - Tver, Tula, Vladimir, Ryazan, Kaluga, Moscow. If a client from the service area of the ASC sent a letter, for example, to Vladivostok, then first his letter will go to the Podolsk ASC, and then go to the main sorting center in the Far East. Where it will already be sorted to the final recipient. The Village went to the automatic sorting center in Podolsk (the largest in Russia and Eastern Europe) to see how letters and parcels were sorted there.

What happens at the sorting center

The automated center serves the six regions closest to it. This means that it sorts simple letters by post offices, registered letters and parcels - by district post offices. It also processes outgoing shipments from these regions for recipients from all over Russia. After the envelope has fallen into the mailbox, it is taken out, brought to the post office, where the letter is examined and the date of sending is set. Then the mail containers with letters are taken to the sorting center.

In total, 1,650 people work in it, about 350 employees go on shift, the center can be compared with a large factory in terms of area - it occupies 29 thousand square meters. The sorting center operates around the clock, seven days a week and holidays. The conveyor only stops during maintenance hours. The equipment here is Italian.

A large proportion of the center's shipments in Podolsk are letters from various companies (including government organizations, such as fines from the traffic police) and catalogs. Parcels, parcels, EMS items, registered, valuable letters and first class items are also processed here. The sorting time is 21 hours, during this period the departure must go from the entrance to the departure. About 3 million mail items pass through the center every day. The hottest season is April-May, when all kinds of congratulations are sent from the state, and, of course, November-December - when everyone sends gifts and New Year's letters.

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Yasya Vogelhardt

How to speed up the work

The company says that the delivery time for letters and parcels has been reduced. This was achieved thanks to two things - automation and logistics. In the first case, the construction of an automated sorting center in Vnukovo helped, where manual labor is minimized, and all parcels are sorted using special equipment. According to employees, now it takes no more than 22 hours from the moment you enter the international departure center to departure to the country. Previously, such parcels could lie for days on end. In addition, the new Russian Post team revised the routes and removed unnecessary points from them. For example, if earlier a resident of Ryazan sent a letter to an addressee in his city, then the letter was first sent to Moscow for sorting and only then returned back. Now such transfers are sorted within the city.

How are letters sorted?

First, the operators scan the barcode and register the cargo. So in a special program, information appears about what type of mail and how much it has arrived. The data is also uploaded to the official website of the Russian Post, where the client, knowing the identifier (alphanumeric image for international parcels and digital for domestic parcels), can find out the location of his shipment. All containers are distributed among the workshops - letter mail, parcels and express shipments. In the express mail shop, the sorting process is partially automated: operators read the barcode of each with a hand-held scanner, find out the address and put it in a bag that goes to the desired city. According to the staff, this is because most express shipments are irregular in shape, so manual sorting is more acceptable.

Manual labor is also involved in sorting ordinary letters, but it is not much. There is also equipment for sorting large format letters. First, such letters are faceted - operators put them in boxes so that they are located to each other on one side. Then the stacks are loaded onto the sorting machine: the items fly along the conveyor, the scanner reads the address from each and distributes them into cells in directions. This happens quite quickly - 12 letters per second are processed. If the address or index is written illegibly or contains some errors, then the scanner sends a photo of this letter to the video encoding section. Employees of this department continuously manually drive in indexes from images of letters. To do this, you need to have a quick reaction - to have time to deal with the letter in no more than 30 seconds, since it is during this time that the sorting machine makes several circles. In addition, employees need to know the index range of the whole of Russia in order to deal with a mismatch between an index and an address, for example. Of course, in the event that the address is like “to the village of grandfather”, then the letter will be returned to the sender.

Then the letters are taken out of the cells, and the operator puts the items in blue branded boxes, sticks labels with the addresses of branches or post offices and puts the boxes on the conveyor belt. Here they are waiting for the last stages - forming into containers, loading and sending.

What happens to parcels

Parcels are distributed by six automated lines. The first one is intended for international shipments - customs-cleared shipments from Vnukovo arrive here for addressees residing in the entire ASC service area, except for Moscow. For Moscow, departures are sorted directly at the Vnukovo center. The outermost tape is designed for oversized cargo, and the rest - for standard parcels. All shipments are manually loaded onto a high-speed conveyor belt that moves at a speed of 2.2 meters per second. Boxes and bundles are automatically scanned and sorted into 320 outlets that correspond to different post offices. A mesh is installed under the conveyor belt - sometimes, due to the high speed of the conveyor and slippery packaging, the parcels slide down. Therefore, the operator regularly checks the grid and returns the parcels to the sorting tape.

In the place where containers with parcels are unloaded and loaded, there are Yantar installations. They check shipments for radioactive emissions and explosiveness. If a parcel seems suspicious to the operator, then he himself cannot open it, but must transfer it to the security service. In general, the verification of domestic shipments usually takes place at post offices when the shipment is submitted for delivery.

Relatively recently, mail played an important role in the life of every person. The only possibility of communication between cities was a sent letter or telegram. Moreover, to keep abreast of events, people subscribed to newspapers. With the development of cellular communications and the Internet, for a short period it seemed that the mail was completely outdated. But there were parcels and registered letters. And here the development of online stores has opened a new page in

Today, most people prefer to shop online. Parcels are delivered by Russian Post. All of them pass through a special distribution center. For international mail, there is a sorting center in Sharapovo. Where is it, we will talk with you today.

"Post office"

Each region has a branch that is responsible for the delivery of correspondence in its area. All branches are divided into 10 macro-regions, each of which has one common center, where all parcels arrive for further distribution. There are two branches in Moscow, which are combined into one macro-region.

But that is not all. The Vnukovo logistics center is located on the territory of the region, which processes shipments not only within the country, but also international parcels.

What's going on here

Let's repeat once again where it is: the sorting center in Sharapovo is located near Podolsk. Life is in full swing here around the clock: huge cars are flashing red lights, conveyors are buzzing. As a result, all parcels and letters are distributed and sent to post offices in six regions of Russia.

The person may not even know where it is. The sorting center in Sharapovo operates as follows. Let's say a person sent a letter to Vladivostok. It will first go to the Podolsky ASC, then to the regional branch.

Let's look inside

Residents of the area know exactly where it is. The sorting center in Sharapovo is a place of work for many. There are 350 people per shift, and a total of 1,650 people are employed. It sorts ordinary and registered letters, as well as parcels. After that, they are sent to the district post offices, where they are received by the final recipients.

For you, everything ends with the fact that you put the letter in the mailbox. But the work of the postal service is just beginning. It arrives at the distribution center, receives a date of dispatch, and the mail containers leave for the district sorting center.

Bandwidth

Most of the shipments in the processing center are corporate correspondence. This number also includes notifications from government agencies, for example, fines from the traffic police. But the functional tasks do not end there, parcels and parcels are also processed here.

Where is the sorting center in Sharapovo, you can see on the map above. The sorting speed here is maximum - only 21 hours. So much time passes between the entry and exit of correspondence. About 3 million letters and parcels pass through the center every day. In the spring, the influx increases greatly, as government agencies send out holiday notices. December is not far behind - the season of congratulations.

Modernization of work

The sorting center in Sharapovo was upgraded two years ago. First of all, the task was to simplify and speed up the processing of correspondence. This was done thanks to automation and competent logistics:

Now all parcels are sorted using special equipment. Today, on every letter or parcel, you can see the imprint “Left the sorting center in Sharapovo”, the date and time. Previously, parcels could not leave the territory of the center for several days. In order for these changes to start working, a large-scale reorganization and optimization of all business processes was carried out.
The second point is logistics. Routes were revised and unnecessary points were removed. For example, a person in Omsk sent a letter to an addressee in his city. It goes to the sorting center in Moscow, and then comes back. Now local shipments are processed within the city.

Departments that are subordinate

The address of the sorting center in Sharapovo: 102975, Moscow, Sharapovo. That's all the data. In fact, the address is not registered anywhere, all clarifications on this issue are reduced to the wording “near the village of Sharapovo”. Apparently, this object is simply impossible here. On the other hand, since this does not prevent letters and parcels from getting here and leaving without hindrance, it means that it is really easy. The object is subordinate to:

plot;
several workshops.

How is sorting

A person starts work, or rather, an operator. Its task is to scan the barcode first. At the same time, information about the type of mail received appears in a special program. The data is uploaded to the official website. Now the client, who knows the identifier code, can find out where his parcel is.

Exemplary order reigns here, which allows you to avoid mistakes. All containers are distributed among the workshops: letter mail, parcels and express shipments. To date, the last workshop is only partially automated. The use of manual scanning continues. According to the employees themselves, this is due to the fact that some items have a non-standard form.

Sorting regular mail

Manual labor is also partially preserved here. Operators stack them in boxes in such a way that they lie "face" to each other. After that, the scanner reads the addresses and distributes the letters to the desired cells. It happens very quickly. Approximately 12 letters pass in one second. If the address is written with errors, then it will be returned to the operators. They manually drive in the index from the images of letters. To work here requires good experience and quick response.

What happens to parcels

They are distributed over several stream lines:

Boxes and parcels that are sent abroad.
Large, heavy and oversized cargo.
Ordinary parcels.

As you follow the belt, the parcels automatically fall into the compartments that correspond to the post office of the city or region to which they are to be delivered.