PURPOSE: To eliminate the need for reclassification of postage to be paid on delivery of large- lot enterprises, to improve the classification rate thereof and to lower an erroneous classification rate by providing the device and machine with an address and large-lot Q, enterprise name recognizing section which collates read addresses with the addresses stored in an address dictionary, the addresses and names of the large-lot enterprises or combined information thereof and outputs the results of the collation.

CONSTITUTION: This address reading device and address reading and classifying machine have a reading section 4 which reads the addresses from postal matter P and the address dictionary 45 in which the addresses and the addresses to the large-lot enterprises or combined information consisting of the enterprise names or addresses and the enterprise names are stored. The addresses read by the reading section 4 are collated with the addresses and addresses for the large enterprises stored in the address dictionary 45 or the combined information consisting of the enterprise names or addresses and the enterprise names and the results of the collation are outputted by the address and large-lot enterprise name recognizing section 44, Then, the independent classification is made possible by recognizing the ordinary postage to be paid on delivery and the postage to be paid on delivery of the large-lot enterprises. The registration of even the large-lot enterprise in a data base is possible by registering the combined conditions consisting of the addresses and enterprise names as the data base of the large-lot enterprises.