Tag: Track and Trace

Hand Held Products signs five year maintenance contract with DPD

Posted by | Aug 24, 2005 | |

Hand Held Products, the world’s leading supplier of image-based data capture systems, has signed a pan-European agreement with DPD (Deutscher Paket Dienst GmbH & Co KG), a subsidiary of La Poste and part of the GeoPost group. Under the new agreement, which runs until 2010, Hand Held Products will provide support and maintenance services on over 6,000 Dolphin 9500 mobile computers. The Dolphins are being used in DPD’s depots and delivery trucks in Europe. The two companies had already signed an agreement earlier this year, when DPD installed an automated delivery scan system based around the Dolphins.

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The US Postal Service is going to give first-class treatment to first-class mail, to beat back UPS and FedEx.

Posted by | Jul 8, 2005 | |

If the US Postal Service has its way, “the check is in the mail” excuse will no longer be valid. The company that sent you the bill could verify whether you’re bluffing through a bar code on the return envelope scanned by the Postal Service. That tracking system, which starts this month, is one way the Postal Service is making first-class mail such as bills and personal correspondence more valuable, in a world full of e-mail and electronic documents. The Postal Service says a financial institution will test the system in July by using the new bar code. The customer will track mail as it winds through the Postal Service’s 283 processing and distribution centers across the country. Currently, mail is mostly scanned at the beginning and delivery points. By year’s end, all letter mail could be tracked at Postal Service facilities. The Postal Service will add commercial customers throughout 2006.

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UPS expands technology for greater inbound visibility

Posted by | Jul 5, 2005 | |

UPS today unveiled a technology enhancement that automatically notifies customers of every package in the UPS system moving toward them, providing a new tool to better manage the demands of business. The software technology opening a new “window” into the UPS system is called UPS Quantum View Inbound and represents the most recent addition to the UPS Quantum View suite of visibility services. Quantum View Inbound provides proactive notification of UPS air express, ground and international packages that are en route to the receiver’s location.

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Swedish Posten using RFID

Posted by | May 26, 2005 | |

The Swedish postal service Posten is using embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) technology in parcels to cut down on internal theft. Posten, which has its headquarters in Stockholm, is testing the technology on high-value and confidential items such as mobile phones, computer equipment and government documents, as a way of detecting whether they have been tampered with. Specially-designed cardboard packaging from Swedish technology firm Cypak contains a microscopic chip and embedded RFID circuits that can store information about the package’s origin, contents and journey. Posten uses RFID readers to enter data into the SecurePak parcel before dispatch, and then reads the data when the package has arrived at its destination to check for any suspicious activity.

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ANC on the right track

Posted by | Jan 27, 2005 | |

ANC Express has chosen Carrier Logistics to build a new track and trace computer system to handle the 125,000 pieces of freight it moves each night. The Focus system is in the final stages of testing before its implementation across ANCs national network.

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