Tag: Track and Trace

InfoPrint enables transactional mailers to implement USPS Intelligent Mail Barcode (U.S)

Posted by | Mar 4, 2008 | |

InfoPrint Solutions Company, a joint venture between IBM and Ricoh announced a new solution that will enable large mailers to continue to receive postal discounts on automated mailings by replacing current Postnet barcodes with the new Intelligent Mail Barcode (IMB). This is a mailing solution that allows transactional mailers to make these barcode replacements without changing their base applications or over spraying finished envelopes to continue to benefit from the automated discounts from the United States Postal Service (USPS).

IMB is being introduced to improve mail tracking and give mailers continuous updates on the location and status of each mailpiece. This tracking system not only applies during the delivery process to the customer, but also responds with initial entry data if a return service is requested.

Large mailers, including financial, healthcare, telecommunications and insurance companies, currently receive a discount on each automated mailpiece sent ranging from USD 0.03 to USD 0.23. Without upgrading to support IMB by the time specified by the USPS, these companies will no longer be eligible to receive their postage discounts, which could exceed USD 1M per month for many large companies. The date currently proposed for the upgrade to IMB to be implemented is May 2009, concurrent with the next annual USPS price change. This will include separate prices for the full-service and basic option and the Postnet Barcode will remain eligible for an automation price until May 2010.

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USPS pushes back Intelligent Mail barcode implementation (U.S)

Posted by | Mar 3, 2008 | |

Postmaster General John Potter announced today that the US Postal Service will push back the date of implementation for the Intelligent Mail barcode from January 2009 to May 2009.

In an advisory notice, Potter wrote that the decision to change the date was in response to public feedback. “Many of you told us that January 2009 was too soon,” he wrote. “We will propose a May 2009 implementation, concurrent with our next annual price change.”

In March, the USPS will host four symposiums on Intelligent Mail in Las Vegas, Chicago, New York and Atlanta. Intelligent Mail will also be a topic of discussion at the upcoming National Postal Forum in May and at the National Postal Customer Council Day in September, Day added.

The USPS first started seeking feedback on proposed rules related to the use of the Intelligent Mail barcode in December. At that time, the USPS said that mailers would have to use one of two proposed Intelligent Mail options in order to qualify for automation prices for letters and flats after January 2009.

However, in today’s notice, Potter said that the Postnet barcode will remain eligible for automation prices until May 2010. “Those prices will be announced with the May 2009 change,” he wrote.

Potter said that the USPS plans to publish its proposed rulemaking on the Intelligent Mail barcode in the Federal Register next month. The new proposal will include new options for mail owner identification. He said that the USPS is also eliminating the requirement for green color bars on the container label, a concern that was also brought up at the Mailers’ Technical Advisory Committee meeting in January.

Potter also said that the new May 2009 implementation of the Intelligent Mail barcode will include separate prices for the full-service and basic options.

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BCC Software to Launch Track N Trace MailDelivery Monitoring Service Option

Posted by | Feb 29, 2008 | |

BCC Software, a BÖWE BELL + HOWELL has set a release date of March 3 for Track
N Trace™, its newest offering. This service option will provide users with comprehensive information and unprecedented specificity regarding the delivery progress of their mailing jobs.

Track N Trace uses the new USPS Intelligent Mail barcode to supply BCC customers with maildelivery monitoring information as part of the USPS OneCode Confirm ™ program. When Track N Trace is activated via a proprietary interface built into BCC’s Mail Manager 2010 presorting and listmanagement software, each mailpiece in the designated job is tagged with a unique identification number stored in the IM™ barcode on the address label.

Those IDs are then logged when the mailpieces are scanned as they move from one postal facility to the next on the path to their eventual delivery destination.

OneCode Confirm sends that scan data to a secure BCC Web site that may be retrieved at any time by Track N Trace subscribers looking for uptodate delivery details for part or all of a job. The scan data, updated on BCC’s servers several times each day, may be accessed in the form of userspecified reports that can be downloaded into a variety of presentationfriendly formats.

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TNT France to launch ecological IT solutions and new delivery service

Posted by | Feb 29, 2008 | |

TNT Express France has launched a new operational system for its IT network adapting more ecological and cost-saving methods in order to limit the environmental impact of its IT activities. In addition, the company has launched a new delivery service “12:00 Express” for shipments within France to be delivered next day before noon.

The current IT model applied at TNT operates in a traditional way with two systems, the “active” one in use and the “inactive” one in a sleeping modus that can be set in if the first system breaks down.

The new optimized system is equipped with two smaller systems that are both active. Thanks to the high quality of the equipment provided nowadays by the suppliers, this solution makes it possible to offer the same service in terms of the quality and reliability at a more favourable price.

Another advantage of the new system is the considerable reduction of the environmental impact in every stage of the projects including production, transportation, installation, energy consumption, maintenance and recycling of additional and inactive equipment.

This project is part of the TNT environmental programme “Planet Me” launched worldwide in 2007.

Meanwhile, TNT France has launched a new delivery service “12:00 Express” for shipments to be delivered nationwide next day before noon.

This service will go into operation in the beginning of April this year for all the shipments between 0 and 30 kg.

TNT assures a complete coverage of the market with 86 pct of the French companies using the delivery service before noon.

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Amtrak taps 10 million online bookings through NetDespatch

Posted by | Feb 27, 2008 | |

Amtrak and NetDespatch are celebrating after reaching a landmark 10 million online bookings. Amtrak customer taps4less.com reached the milestone while booking its daily shipment of bathroom supplies, to be delivered by Amtrak on a next day service nationwide.

Amtrak’s business has been revolutionised by its Online Collections, Despatch and International services supplied by ‘Software as a Service’ specialist NetDespatch. Like many other Amtrak customers, taps4less.com benefits from a fully electronic system for booking, pre-labelling and tracking. T aps4less.com ship s tens of thousands of parcels a year, and the NetDespatch Velocity service has proved vital to optimising its business by eliminat ing the keying in of shipments , cutting out virtually all paperwork and transcription errors .

One of the biggest benefits brought to Amtrak by NetDespatch is the ease with which their customer s can link their order processing and warehouse systems to the NetDespatch servers via the Internet. When taps4less.com found it could integrate so easily, the company immediately connected its own sales ordering system, so that o rder details only need to be entered once; usually by the customer online.

Reaching 10 million online booking is a real landmark. Our customers are always very enthusiastic about Online Despatch and also Connector, our easy web integration tool. We can thank NetDespatch for all their innovation and hard work delivering what is a clear market leader in online technology,” comments Gerry Ruffell, Commercial Director of Amtrak.

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