Logistics System for Transporting Postal Items and Method for Determining a Transport Path

摘要

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.