World's Fastest Letter Sorter - NPI's Crossfire SE

In your demanding mailing environment, flexibility and reliability are every bit as important as high performance. NPI's Crossfire SE delivers all of the above like no other sorter on the market today. The Crossfire SE is capable of speeds in excess of 100,000 per hour. Compare the Crossfire SE to any other sorter. With its advances in reading and sorting technology, and its amazing processing speeds, the Crossfire SE is the obvious choice for your complex, high-volume mail sorting needs.

[@stuarthamilton5112]

I know it's a demo and so you've got it loaded with nice pristine envelopes, but here at the USPS when we're loading letters from a tray that's already been through AFCS, CIOSS or DIOSS, they're pretty crumpled up already. Some are bent, others are completely folded and we need to unfold them at the jogger to feed them without jamming. That's what makes a good machine, not necessarily how fast it goes, but how often it jams and how quickly and easily that jam is cleared. A good example are the vehicle registration notices the state sends out. Those things are teeny tiny, barely machinable, single ply thickness slips of paper without envelopes. They're not even made of card stock. I'd love to see how this machine handles those, or those ridiculously glossy card stock EDDM mailers that get sent out. Those things are supposed to be handled as flats, but all too often they end up in the letter machines, and they are brutal.

[@dennyquin]

Retired Postal tech.... installed, serviced and maintained over 30 different types of sorting machines. I noticed that the Test mail in this all uniform unlike real mail. this can affect speed. Because real Mail is imperfect the mail frequently gets stuck (Jams) causing all downstream mail to crash together until the machine can sense the Jam and stop the motors. The results in damaged, sometimes undeliverable, mail. Quicker doesn't mean better for the customer only cheaper for the one doing the sorting.

[@Thesixsixman1968]

Looks like a nice clean test deck, wonder how it handles key fobs, wooden post cards, and cell phone batteries. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@burningandunconsumed]

[@ItsJustMe0585]

I actually was using this video to show how stuff is sorted, because the thought of Netflix DVDs make me remember the extremely frequent jams with our standard DPS machines. I had many intrusive thoughts from about 15 years ago when those memories popped in my brain.

[@oscaradame7505]

run some val packs thru it ..all mail is not the same in reality

[@more_jello]

Does anyone remember the Bell & Howell barcode sorters? Clackity, clackity, clack, LOL.

[@JediFight]

That's cool, but why is mail all the same size?

[@iannickCZ]

Just promo video, not real post office

[@benjaminrogers1343]

Fancy, I'm still using my ECA Siemens 994 DBCS

[@katinamooneyham579]

Wow! Fast! How does it keep track of things at that speed? How many bins does it have? What kind of software does it use to track where the mail goes? This is pretty awesome!

[@noshame2389]

1-cameras keeping track of labels on the mail, since it's a machine it can track stuff like that faster than the human eye
2- probably would depend on how many bin sections are added since machines like this are somewhat modular to allow for both larger and smaller distribution centers.
3- no clue but I'd assume it's Linux based

[@kfxnando]

WOW - that us crazy fast
What would such a machine cost

[@godswarrior2952]

It's capable of sorting probably up to $55k an hour in mail so I'm sure it was worth it whatever the price tag.

[@pueliatopia2312]

what if the letter get rip up?

[@scincidae3081]

nice

[@xavierRamoz]

That would give a really bad paper cut

[@Mkilbride2599]

How? With 300,000 per hour, you can already barely keep that shit full sometimes. 3x the speed...no way.

[@wendydavenport9418]

Blimy