# Presentation: 550537

## PACKAGE VISIBILITY PROJECT

**Jim Cochrane & Gary Reblin**
**Mailer’s Technical Advisory Committee**

## Where Are We Today?  

- Where Are We Today?
- USPS Bar Coded Services

** FY 2005 Express Mail, Priority Mail, Parcel Post, Media Mail, Bound Printed Matter (parcel), Parcel Select, Standard Parcel and Library Mail*

## Where Are We Today?  

- Where Are We Today?
- USPS Bar Coded Services

** FY 2005 Based on POS transactions*

## Where Are We Today?  

- Where Are We Today?
- USPS Customer Inconvenience

-  Confusing experience for our customers at retail
-  Customers choose from at least 10 different forms
-  Minimal content embedded in these bar codes
-  Customers who purchase more than one service are required to “rewrite” information for the same mail piece.

## Where Do We Want to Be?

- One intelligent bar code on every package
- End to end visibility on every package
- Bar codes that tell us more about the package and shipper for systems like EVS
- Intelligence from bar codes is used to manage and grow our business

## How Do We Get There

- Intelligent Bar Code On Every Package

- Standardize bar codes for domestic and international
- Enable UCC/EAN 128 Bar Code Symbology on all packages.
- Provide unique identity and sortation
- Update systems to collect, pass, and analyze information collected from the bar code

**Notes:**
Assumptions:

 no changes to systems outside of POS
 bar code will need to be determine when applied at retail and no other services are purchased. 
 delivery confirmation could be used as tracking bar code with no changes to systems.
 need to determine impact of taking away stamped and meter mail away when bar codes cannot be produced
 can service bar codes be unified with no changes to handheld scanners?

## BMC Network
Established enroute tracking infrastructure to support future track & trace initiatives
Software updates to move to near real-time data transfer  
Improved Del Con read rates
Mailers now using UCC/EAN-128
Software enhancements to identify USPS barcode

**Tracking**

**BMC **

**IMVIS**

**SSIU & HSIU**

**APPS & SPBS**

**P&DC**

- Enhancing Our Network To Enable Tracking Of Packages*** ***

- BMC Network
- Established enroute tracking infrastructure to support future track & trace initiatives
- Software updates to move to near real-time data transfer
- Improved Del Con read rates
- Mailers now using UCC/EAN-128
- Software enhancements to identify USPS barcode

- How Do We Get There
- Mail Visibility

## Plant Network
APPS scan tunnel technology captures Del Con scans
Tied reported scans into new Enroute Tracking Infrastructure
Using scans internally for service diagnostics
Installed first SPBS Track & Trace Scanner System  
Tied SPBS scans into new Enroute Tracking Infrastructure
Deployment complete in Fall
65% of Priority volume on APPS, SPBS or Flats sorters
Parcel and Flats Sorting Equipment enabled
Achieving additional 1.5 million enroute scans daily

- Plant Network
- APPS scan tunnel technology captures Del Con scans
- Tied reported scans into new Enroute Tracking Infrastructure
- Using scans internally for service diagnostics
- Installed first SPBS Track & Trace Scanner System
- Tied SPBS scans into new Enroute Tracking Infrastructure
- Deployment complete in Fall
- 65% of Priority volume on APPS, SPBS or Flats sorters
- Parcel and Flats Sorting Equipment enabled
- Achieving additional 1.5 million enroute scans daily

- Enhancing Our Network To Enable Tracking Of Packages*** ***

- How Do We Get There
- Mail Visibility

## How Do We Get There

- Intelligent Bar Code on Every Package

**Bar code symbology upgraded to UCC/EAN 128**
- Each bar code updated to nest routing, service type, and business ID coding
- All systems in postal network will be able to recognize and link package service and shipper by bar code

**Notes:**
Assumptions:

 bar code specifications still in discussion
 international bar code specifications TBD

## How Do We Get There

_**Currently Enabled**_
** **PC Postage
-  Click-N-Ship

- By Channel

_**Needs Regulation or Business Decisions**_
** **Permit
-  Retail
-  Meter
-  APC