Tag: Track and Trace

Postal Union hopes to use new delivery project early next year

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

Q-Post chairman al-Ali with UPU and other delegates at the meeting of the interim working group in Doha yesterday

Members of the quality steering committee of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) expressed confidence that the radio frequency identification project (RFID), aimed at improving the quality of postal delivery, would be successfully implemented in several countries across the world, most probably by early next year.

Experts, associating with the UPU’s initiative, are currently in Doha as part of the global monitoring system’s (GMS) interim working group’s third meeting in the city. The meeting will conclude tomorrow.

As part of the project, meetings are scheduled to be held also in Washington, Rio De Janerio, Lisbon, Botswana, Helsinki, and Japan. Some of the meetings have already been completed.

He said the core group had come out with some effective solutions which he said could be beneficial to all UPU members, in particular those in the developing world.
Jan Sertons (TNT, The Netherlands), Kai Perasalo (Itella, Finland), Antonio Caeiro, (UPU, Portugal) and Sakae Kamibayashi (Japan Post Service) are among the experts attending the meeting.

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Snail Mail is going digital (U.S)

Posted by | Sep 18, 2008 | |

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is going digital on bulk mail service. Unique scannable bar codes will start to show up in May 2009 on business, first class mail and packages. The codes should speed up processing of that mail and will allow businesses as well as post offices to track the movement and delivery of each piece sent.

Businesses can expect the bar codes to bring the same kinds of efficiencies in data mining and management found online to snail-mail billing and direct marketing. The digital mail revolution, named “Intelligent Mail” by the USPS, will help companies zero in on their best sales prospects by much more quickly gauging response rates to mail offers and tweaking pitches if they flub.

By May 2011, all bulk mail must be coded to receive postage discounts, although, at first, mailers can choose whether or not to use Intelligent Mail. Figure about half of first-class mail will be voluntary participants.

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CipherLab selected by Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation

Posted by | Sep 1, 2008 | |

CipherLab, an Automated Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) for the retail, warehouse, healthcare, government and distribution markets, recently announced that its 9400 Industrial Mobile Computer will be deployed throughout the 3,000+ regional branches of the Empresa Brasileira de Correios e Telegrafos (Brazilian Post and Telegraph Corporation, or ECT), the national postal service of Brazil. Compex Tecnologia, CipherLab’s official reseller in Brazil, won the contract to upgrade ECT’s logistics infrastructure to improve shipment accuracy and efficiency.

Operated by the Ministry of Communications, ECT is Brazil’s largest employer with approximately 110,000 employees. In Q4 2008, Compex Tecnologia will begin to deploy up to 4,000 units of the CipherLab 9400 across 28 regions within the ECT, helping it to more accurately process, sort and track the millions of pieces of daily mail delivered by its couriers.

The CipherLab 9400 supports Microsoft Windows CE 5.0, and is designed to simplify the tasks of those working in the retail, logistics, warehouse, transportation and field sales/services industries. It leads the industry in impact standards — an important consideration for the warehouse or field use environment.

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SMS-based service soon to ensure mail delivery

Posted by | Aug 21, 2008 | |

A new SMS-based, 24X7 modern postal service is likely to be introduced in Qatar by next year.
George Scott-Campbell, director of IT Services at General Postal Corporation (Q-Post), told Gulf Times that the service, Q-Post24, would end the problem of people not getting mail sent to their office P O Box address.
Subscribers to the service would be notified through a text message when a mail or parcel reached the post office, he said.
The service would have outdoor lockers at supermarkets, petrol stations and similar places. Q-Post had already sold advertising space on the giant boxes.
The boxes can be accessed by an electronic card. The parcel will have a PIN number, which will be sent through SMS.
Using the card and the PIN, the locker bins can be opened and the parcel collected.
Scott-Campbell said a Gulf company wanted to supply the hardware for the service, which was originally developed in Britain as a business-to-business service known as .
According to the manufacturers, ParcelExchange is a cost-effective and sustainable solution for the ‘last mile’ in the delivery process.

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Swiss Post Delivers RFID to Its Parcel Centers, Transportation Hubs

Posted by | Aug 20, 2008 | |

The company is adding EPC Gen 2 tags to containers that shuttle mail and packages in and around nearly 50 facilities in Switzerland.

Swiss Post is rolling out the company’s third RFID application—this time a system to track 45,000 rolling container cages used to transport mail and packages at buildings throughout the Alpine country. Implementation of the application, believed to be the largest in Switzerland, began in October 2007 and will be completed by this October.

A public company that provides postal services to Switzerland, Swiss Post transports more than 1 million parcels per year. Wheeled container cages play an important role in transporting the parcels. Before Swiss Post decided to tag its rolling container cages, it had no reliable way to conduct an inventory of them. The company counted them manually every two years, a labor-intensive process that required an estimated 200 workdays involving two people at each location.

Swiss Post is investing 4 million Swiss francs (USD 3.6 million) in the project, which covers software, hardware and consulting fees. It expects to save 1.5 million Swiss francs (USD 1.4 million) a year because it won’t have to manually count the cages and will be able to manage the cages more effectively. By knowing how many cages are on hand and where they are physically located, it can make sure it has the right number of cages at each site in order to handle the expected volumes. The information will also help the company better manage the cages, transport them less between sites to meet demand and avoid delays due to unavailable cages.

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