Abstract: A device and a method for controlling the transportation of an object, particularly a mail article to a receiving unit. The device includes an image recording device, a reader, a computer-available allocation table and a data-processing device with an output device and an input device. The image recording device generates a computer-available image. The reader decodes the receiver identification by using the image from the image recording device. The allocation table has in each case one record with an identification of the receiver for a set of possible receivers and a code of a receiving unit for an object. The data-processing device selects a record in the allocation table by using a decoding result from the reader and outputs the receiving unit code of this record on the output device in a form perceptible by a person. During this process, a computer-available selection list is generated, the selection list including each receiver identification of an identified record.