March 2008 – TNT Post, the Netherlands' largest postal service has selected GIRO's GeoRoute software to plan and optimize routes for its nationwide mail delivery operations.
TNT Post chose GeoRoute after conducting a series of successful pilot tests with the software. The company will use GeoRoute 2008 along with several of its optional components, including the automatic park and loop and sequencing algorithms, and the Route to Depot Assignment module, used to evaluate the efficiency and costs of main and satellite postal delivery offices.
GeoRoute is used by postal organizations to plan high-density routes (where carriers visit most addresses on the street, e.g., mail or newspaper delivery) and point-to-point routes, such as parcel delivery, mailbox collection, or extra pouch delivery.
GeoRoute is the routing software most widely used by postal administrations. GIRO postal routing software is used by An Post (Ireland), CPC (Canada), Deutsche Post (Germany), bpost (Belgium), P&T (Luxemburg), Posten (Norway), Royal Mail (United Kingdom), and TNT Post (The Netherlands). The software includes translation tools to support an organization's preferred language.
TNT Post delivers 17 million pieces of mail each day to more than 7 million addresses throughout the Netherlands.
