# Presentation: 305223

##  Intelligent Mail and Address Quality 
August 5, 2003

**August 5, 2003**

**MTAC Briefing**

**IMAQ**

**Charles Bravo, Sr. Vice President Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**
**Gary Reblin, Manager Intelligent Mail Planning and Standards**

## Agenda

**Overview****	****	****	****	****	****    Charles Bravo**
**Strategy**
**Ongoing Activities/Accomplishments**
**Code Consolidation****	****	****	****     Gary Reblin**
**Letters and Flats**
**Parcels and Bundles**
**Unit Loads**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

## Intelligent Mail Corporate Plan (Internal Completed)

**Intelligent Mail Corporate Plan (Internal Completed)**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

**A comprehensive strategy for implementation of Intelligent Mail and “OneCode Vision” (per mail type) **

**Vision**

**Strategies**

**Program Roadmap**

**Vision:  The Postal Service and its customers will place an **
**              ****information-rich code on all mail, aggregates, and **
**              ****business forms enabling end-to-end visibility into **
**              ****the mail stream.**

## Intelligent Mail Strategies

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

-  **Develop ****and Deploy Enabling Infrastructure**** **

-  **Uniquely Identify Mail and Aggregates**** **

-  **Enhance Address Quality**** **** **

**Code**

## Activities / Accomplishments

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

-  **Uniquely Identify Mail and Aggregates**** **

** ****Code**

**Mail Technology Study Underway**
**Mailer / USPS ability to convert to**
**   ****new coding symbologies**
**Mail Technology Strategy Council **
**USPS and industry technologists discuss the ramifications of new technology on the mailing industry**
**Confirm® Procedure Standardization**
**Common Stakeholder Training **

## Activities / Accomplishments

**Award contract for Phase 1 of Mail Processing Infrastructure**
**Upgraded Computer Wiring at 62 sites**
**Phase 2 in the Spring**
**Scanner Standardization**
**Common specification for 17,000 Phase 3 POS terminals**
**MDCD replacement**
**Award contract for BMC Integrated Data Servers**
**Collect mail piece data at BMCs**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

-  **Develop ****and Deploy Enabling Infrastructure**** **

## Activities / Accomplishments

**New OCR readable Change of Address (COA) form issued in January**
**Initiative underway to make COA form more user friendly – today frequent errors**
**Ongoing initiative to increase Internet COA usage**
**Lowest cost and best accuracy**
**Usage is up 56% from last year**
**Anticipated, over 3 million this year**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

-  **Enhance Address Quality**** **** **

**NCOA**

**ICOA**

## Agenda

**Overview****	****	****	****	****	****     Charles Bravo**
**Strategy**
**Ongoing Activities/Accomplishments**
**Code Consolidation****	****	****	****     Gary Reblin**
**Letters and Flats**
**Parcels and Bundles**
**Unit Loads**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

## Letters and Flats

**Determining capabilities for mailers and USPS to move to a new code**
**Mail Technology Study**
**Analysis of potential 4-state coding alternatives **
**Length, characters available, error correction, and height**
**Programs to consolidate codes**
**Planet ACS (pilot by end of calendar year)**
**4-state in place of planet (pilot winter ’04)**
**Enabling Mail Processing Equipment**
**WFOV Cameras and AFSM 100**
**Read, process, and track using 2-D and 4-state**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

**E.g., Data Matrix, PDF 417**

**2-D**

**E.g., 4-State Barcode**

**Height Modulated**

*** Specific symbologies used here for illustrative purposes only**

## Parcels and Bundles

**Validation Testing for mandatory conversion to UCC/EAN Code 128 on Parcels**
**Testing conducted at 2 BMCs (Greensboro and Pittsburgh)**
**Mailer and postal produced labels tested **
**Test also included concatanated codes **
**Develop requirements and modify SSP, POS One, and Click-N-Ship to support new standard label**
**Define Code for Bundle Tracking to support new Parcel and Bundle Sorter**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

**Width Modulated**

**E.g., Code 128**

## Unit Loads

**Replace the current tray and sack labels with an Enhanced Distribution Label (EDL)**
**Uniquely identifies trays and sacks**
**Completed in-house barcode readability testing **
**Label is part of surface visibility pilot**
**Developed and tested new label production application **
**Deploying new on-demand printers for MPE**
**Container placarding program testing also planned as part of pilot testing**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**

## Migrating to a “One Code” vision by consolidating existing identifiers where possible
Many efforts underway
Working to upgrade infrastructure to provide near real time information
Identifying and upgrading infrastructure, but changes to infrastructure takes time
Studying customers’ business needs and capabilities.

**Many efforts underway**
**Working to upgrade infrastructure to provide near real time information**
**Identifying and upgrading infrastructure, but changes to infrastructure takes time**
**Studying customers’ business needs and capabilities.**

**Summary**

**Intelligent Mail and Address Quality**