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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 »
The Pros for Co: Why the Industry Is Moving to Comailing
With the current economic situation, businesses are being forced to do more with less, and many mailers in the industry are looking for new opportunities to save. One option mailers are considering to improve efficiency and increase savings is to combine mailings through copalletizing and comailing. Copalletization allows mailers to combine separate bundles on pallets… Read: The Pros for Co: Why the Industry Is Moving to Comailing »
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 »