Swiss Post is striving to improve efficiency and is investing huge sums of money in the purchase of new sorting equipment.
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Thomas Kern was born in Switzerland in 1965. Trained as a photographer in Zürich, he started working as a photojournalist in 1989. He was a founder of the Swiss photographers agency Lookat Photos in 1990. Thomas Kern has won twice a World Press Award and has been awarded several Swiss national scholarships. His work has been widely exhibited and it is represented in various collections.
In the next few months new machines will be installed in Switzerland’s 39 sorting offices able not merely to sort by post code but to organise the letters in the order in which the postman will deliver them. But despite increased automation, human beings will still play an essential role. A report from the centre in Härkingen. (All pictures Thomas Kern, swissinfo.ch)
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