You have a new letter in your inbox. And it is marked with the seal with the acronym ACS. What does this combination of letters mean? Who is the sender of the message? Is it worth paying attention to such a letter? We will answer these and other questions further.
Decoding ACC
ASC is an automatic sorting center. Sometimes a slightly different combination of letters can be found - ASC DTI. The last abbreviation will be disclosed as an “additional technical index”.
What is the interpretation of "Moscow ASC" then? Right, an automatic sorting center located in Moscow. The next most popular stamp on letters sends us back to the Northern capital. Decoding "ACC St. Petersburg" - St. Petersburg auto sorting center.
And now let’s decide what kind of organization it is.
What is ASC?
ASC is an institution that performs automatic selection of mail messages by index (DTI). Distributes letters at those points where a considerable number of them accumulate. In fact, this is a branch of the Russian Post, which is engaged in correspondence from government agencies. For example, these are letters with notices of taxes and fines. An ordinary person, an individual will not be the sender of a letter marked ACS.
Previously, the work of modern automatic sorting organizations was carried out by local large post offices. It is currently planned to open its own ACS in each of the regions of the Russian Federation. Therefore, in the future, business letters will bear the mark of not only the St. Petersburg or Moscow center.
What is ASC? This is the organization where there is an accelerated sorting of letters by post office. Correspondence gets into the center itself in bags. Then it is sorted on an automated distribution line. Messages are divided into blocks - each of them will be taken by a company car to a specific post office or to the main post office. After this departure already rush to their addressees.
Thus, if you received a letter with a note from the Moscow or St. Petersburg ASC, then this means one thing - the message went through sorting in this auto sorting center before it fell into your hands.
We pass to the next question.
About DTI Supplement
But as for the increase in DTI, this is a local (additional) index. It is needed for faster sorting of letters by region. Often used by police when sending out notifications of fines, as well as by bailiffs when sending notices.
Overwhelming majority of organizations assign additional indexes for faster delivery of mail notifications to their customers. For example, the Moscow auto sorting service is able to process up to 1 million letters from DTI daily! The fact is that living people are not even involved in the process - he is completely entrusted with the modernized equipment.
Today, a lot of additional technical indexes have been introduced in the Russian Federation. For example, in the capital and Moscow region alone, more than 800 of them are registered.
Where are ASCs located?
We have found out what ASC is. And where are these centers that reduce the time for sending business correspondence? Consider the two most famous ACS:
- Moscow. It is not located in the capital itself. Opened a long time ago - back in 2009. Exact address: Moscow region, Podolsky district, Lviv village, st. Trunk, 7. The geography of this organization is central Russia. And this is about 5200 post offices.
- St. Petersburg. This ASC serves about 1700 branches of the Russian Post. They are located in Petersburg itself, as well as in the Novgorod, Leningrad and Pskov regions.
What is in the letter marked ACC?
Having examined the decoding of the acronym ACS, we found out that in the envelope with this mark there will definitely not be a letter from a friend, relative or acquaintance by correspondence. Most often, the contents of such a letter are as follows:
- Advertising booklet.
- A proposal for a loan.
- Message from the Government Services. In particular, it may contain an activation code for registration in the service system.
- Commercial offer.
- Reminder of late payment on a loan from a bank or collection company.
- A message from the traffic police about a fine.
- Notification of penalties imposed on the addressee.
- Message from the tax service.
If a parcel or registered letter has arrived with the mark "ASC", then only a notification of its delivery to the local post office is put in the mailbox. You can pick up the message only by appearing there at the reception hours with an identity document.
Who sent the letter marked ACC?
Having already found out what the ASC is, we won’t be surprised that today we can in two ways find out the addressee of the letter marked with such an abbreviation. And without even opening the envelope!
It is enough to perform several actions:
- Find a combination of 14 digits below the top barcode of the letter. This is the so-called track number.
- Now you need to open the official website of the Russian Post on your computer or smartphone.
- Go to the package and letter tracking section by track number.
- In the appropriate field, enter the found combination of 14 characters.
- Now click on Enter - you will see information about the received letter, including information about its sender. That's all!
But answering a letter marked "ASC-DTI" will be meaningless - it is unlikely to reach the addressee. Only messages that involve one-way communication, for example, notifications, information messages, go through processing in an auto sorting postal complex .
Decoding of the acronym ACS is an automated center engaged in sorting letters. Only mail from organizations with DTI pass through it.