MTAC Week – Address and Barcode Quality

John (Jack) Potter, the Postmaster General, opened up last week’s Mailers’ Technical Advisory Committee meetings with a choice for the industry: improve address and barcode quality or lower expectations on service performance and measurement. A 30 percent tolerance for Intelligent Mail barcodes cannot support a 96% on-time delivery. Jack also noted that for the third… Read: MTAC Week – Address and Barcode Quality »

Barcode Readability is Looking Up, and So is the Future of Intelligent Mail

The DMM Advisory lit up last week with a not-unexpected announcement regarding Intelligent Mail barcode readability standards: Effective November 30, the 70 percent readability verification threshold will be raised to 80 percent minimum tolerance – on its way to the 90-percent mark, now scheduled to take effect in March 2010. This shift, set by the Postal… Read: Barcode Readability is Looking Up, and So is the Future of Intelligent Mail »