To immediately translate display information of a delivered card into digitized information at every delivery of the cards.

The card housing box has a box body in which a plurality of sheets of the cards for distribution are housed in a laminated state and a delivery port for delivering the cards in this box body by one sheet each to the outside of the box body in the face down state of the cards and an optical reader for mechanically reading at least portions of the surface design of the card in the face down state of the card and converting the same to a corresponding electronic signal at every delivery of one sheet of the card is built into the card housing box.