Patent ID: 7516080

Claim:
A delivery management system coupled to base station systems and a delivery article information management apparatus, each of the base station systems being provided with a base station through which a delivery article having an electronic tag circulates, the electronic tag preliminarily storing delivery-route information as to a delivery route of the delivery article to a base station as a first arrival store, wherein: each of the base station systems comprises: a receiving unit for receiving a change-request information requesting a change of an arrival store from the first arrival store to a second arrival store, the change-request information including information as to a base station as the second arrival store; a processing unit for extracting a nearest base station that can execute a write operation on the electronic tag after receiving of the change-request information, based on delivery-history information as to a base station through which the delivery article passed, the delivery-history information including information identifying a base station and work-index information indicating a work index at the base station, to extract changed-delivery-route information from a correspondence table preliminarily stored in a storage unit, the changed-delivery-route information indicating a delivery route from the nearest base station thus extracted to a base station as the second arrival store, the correspondence table storing a predetermined base station of a delivery route between two base stations for each combination of the base stations; and a transmitting unit for transmitting the changed-delivery-route information thus extracted to the base station system of the nearest base station, wherein: the base station system of the nearest base station comprises: a receiving unit for receiving the changed-delivery-route information thus transmitted; and a write processing unit for writing the changed-delivery-route information thus received in the electronic tag.