Route Sequence

Use the Route Sequence option to create walk sequences for your carriers to help them deliver their routes. The walk sequences you create can include directions. After setting up walk sequences, use the Route Walk Sequence report to print them.

Note: You can not use the character-based route sequence utility and this graphical menu option concurrently. You can use one or the other, but not both.

Assign route walk sequences for a route

• Select Setup | Route Sequence in the Route Service module.

• Click the Find Route button () and specify the route for which you want to walk sequences.

• The different streets that are delivered by the route display in the Streets area on the left of the screen. Address segments will only display in the Delivery Segments area to the right if a route walk sequence has already been defined for the route. To view the house numbers delivered on a street, click the plus sign to the left of the street name. You can then click the plus sign to the left of a house number to view the subscribers at that address.

• Click on a street name to define walk sequences for its addresses. The Segment Entry window displays. This is where you determine the house number range for the delivery segment. Initially, the full house number range for the street delivered by the route displays, but you can change the house number range if only defining walk sequences for part of the street. You can also set the Side field to only deliver to the odd or even side of the street (the default is both) and change Order field from ascending to descending, if the street is delivered in descending house number order. Click OK to add the street segment.

Note: If all of a street’s addresses are included in a sequence (i.e. are in the Delivery Segments area), it will have a dark yellow pending icon (). If only a portion of the addresses are included in a sequence, the pending icon will be light yellow ().

• If you want to define a delivery segment that is only part of a street, it may be easier to click the Add Street Segment icon (). This will add the first street in the list that does not have a delivery segment, with the From and To fields blank. Set the house number range in the From and To fields, as well as the Side and Order.
• Add additional delivery segments, as needed. If you click on a street that already has delivery segments added for it, the Segment Entry window will default with the house number range and side that is not yet included. For example, if you click on a street name and keep the full house number range but change the Side to “Even”, the next time you click on the street name, the Segment Entry window will have the full house number range but default Side to “Odd”.

• You can add left turns, right turns, and turnarounds to the sequence by clicking on the , , and icons. When adding a turn, the Direction Entry window displays. The Description will be Turn Left, Turn Right, or Turn Around, depending on what type of turn was selected. In the Detailed Instructions field, enter any specific instructions for this turn. Then click OK.

• Any new streets segments or turns will automatically be added to the end of the sequence. To move a segment up or down in the delivery sequence, highlight the segment and click the or buttons to move it. You can also remove a delivery segment by checking the box to the left of it and clicking the Delete icon ().
• When finished with the route sequencing, click the Save Changes icon (). The delivery segments, which were marked with a yellow pending icon (), will now have a green updated icon (), indicating that the route walk sequence has been saved to the database.
• After sequencing a route, you can produce a Route Walk Sequence report (see Route Walk Sequence) by clicking the Report icon ().