Abstract

Postal network is the most developed and complex logistical infrastructure in the world. The complexity is determined by the number of participants, which either require or perform postal services and by manipulating with a large number of postal items handling billions of them on daily basis globally. A basic request is that the shipment is transferred safely and on time to the recipient. A mass production, many sorting points in the supply chain and variety and stochasticity of delivery addresses are aggravating circumstances for this goal fulfillment. Accordingly, postal operators need the most advanced technological systems for sorting and processing. This paper proposes the concept of addressing based on the three levels of postal units and the software application created for the routing of postal items in the system of this kind.