# Presentation: 542886

## Intelligent Mail Update

## Intelligent Mail Vision 

- Provide end-to-end visibility and a
- seamless process for mail acceptance and delivery,
- using standardized intelligent barcodes,
- continuous mail tracking,
- mail quality feedback in real-time,
- and service measurement,
- to position Letters and Flats as a Key Communications Medium

## New Barcodes - Common thread to Intelligent Mail Programs
Launched Intelligent Mail Barcode last September 
Uniquely identify the sender
Uniquely identify the mail piece
Identify any service mailer requests
Provide a destination ZIP Code for sortation & routing
Required in Calendar Year 2009

- Launched Intelligent Mail Barcode last September
- Uniquely identify the sender
- Uniquely identify the mail piece
- Identify any service mailer requests
- Provide a destination ZIP Code for sortation & routing
- Required in Calendar Year 2009

**Standardized Intelligent Barcodes **

*Company** X*

**Intelligent Mail**
**Barcode **

**Intelligent Tray**
**Barcode **

**Intelligent Container****Barcode **

## Letters – Sept. 1, 2006

- Barcode available for automation discounts:
- With services – September 1, 2006
- All letter mail – March 1, 2007
- (Note:  Customer ID required)
- OneCode Confirm
- First-Class and Standard Mail
- Barcode Location same as POSTNET
- OneCode ACS
- First-Class Mail – September 1
- Standard Mail – Fall ’07
- (Note:  dependent upon full deployment of PARS)
- Barcode location – above address block until Fall ‘07

**Intelligent Mail Implementation **

## Flats – May 1, 2007

- Barcode acceptable for automation discounts
- OneCode Confirm for First-Class, Periodicals and Standard
- OneCode ACS for mail
- First-Class
- Periodicals
- Standard – Fall ‘07

**Intelligent Mail Barcode for Flats **

## Intelligent Mail Barcode Adoption

- 81 customer approved to use IMB
- 26 approved for OneCode Confirm
- 29 approved for OneCode ACS
- 28 for sorting only
- Average of 5 to 7 million mailpieces with services scanned weekly

## OneCode ACS New Rates

***Automated**** ****OneCode ACS*** correction (Letters Only)
- First-Class Mail
- First two notices, each	$0.00
- Additional notices, each	$0.05
- Standard Mail
- First two notices, each	$0.02
- Additional notices, each	$0.15
**Electronic** **ACS** correction, each
- First-Class Mail	$0.06
- Other	$0.25

## Information-Rich barcode for Trays, Sacks and Tubs

**Information-Rich barcode for Trays, Sacks and Tubs**

_***Imagine the Future !***_

**Intelligent Mail Tray Label **

**Notes:**
As the industry becomes increasingly competitive over a shrinking mail volume, the Postal Service must take measures to increase its competitiveness.  The Surface Visibility project is a major component in the Transformation Plan efforts to modernize the Postal Service. Modernization will increase visibility of mail throughout the system, thus leading to greater operational efficiency and accuracy.  While a number of programs support Surface Visibility, the tray tracking capability provided by ATLAS is one the cornerstone program of the overall nesting strategy.  Here’s how the nesting strategy works:

Once the Surface Visibility project has been completed, each letter will be scanned, which will then be associated with a particular tray.  The tray will be associated with a container, and the container in turn will be associated with a delivery unit, such as a truck or van – much like how air mail is currently handled.  Using this strategy, the Postal Service will be able to identify the contents of a truck, letter by letter.  It will also be possible to provide precise tracking information for any individual letter.  The ability to track and trace individual trays through ATLAS and EDL is a critical component of this strategy.  As you can imagine, the ability to have mail visibility throughout the Postal network has a large array of secondary benefits

## The 24-digit barcode contains the:

Destination ZIP Code
Content Identifier Number (CIN)
Label Source
Unique Business Entity ID (BEI)
Optional Program Field
Unique Identifier
Label Type

- Destination ZIP Code
- Content Identifier Number (CIN)
- Label Source
- Unique Business Entity ID (BEI)
- Optional Program Field
- Unique Identifier
- Label Type

**Intelligent Mail Tray Label **

***For more information, visit: www.ribbs.usps.gov***

## Intelligent Mail Tray Label 

**2005**

**Quarter III 2007**

**Quarter IV 2007**

**Mailers in Seamless Acceptance Pilot Use Intelligent Mail Tray Label**

**Intelligent Mail Tray Label Offered to **
**Pre-qualified Postal Customers***

**USPS Begins Internally Using **
**Intelligent Mail Tray Label**

**The Intelligent Mail Tray Label will soon be available to all mailers**

**Quarter II 2008**

**Intelligent Mail Tray Label Offered to **
**All Postal Customers**

- * Limited number of postal facilities, material handling equipment being updated

**Intelligent Mail Tray Label **

**Notes:**
The Postal Service began using the Intelligent Mail Tray labels internally in 2005. In 2006, the Intelligent Mail Tray label format was made available to participants involved in the Seamless Acceptance Pilot. The use of the new Intelligent Mail Tray labels will be offered to our customers in Summer 2007.

## Intelligent Mail® Barcode (IMB) Read Deployment: Complete
Expansion of IMB to Flats: May 1, 2007
PARS Deployment: October 2007
Intelligent Mail Tray Label available to all mailers: Qtr2 FY08
Surface Visibility Phase II:  FY08
24 Digit Tray Label:  FY08/09
IMB Mandate:  CY09
Seamless Acceptance:  CY09

- Expansion of IMB to Flats: May 1, 2007
- PARS Deployment: October 2007
- Intelligent Mail Tray Label available to all mailers: Qtr2 FY08
- Surface Visibility Phase II:  FY08
- 24 Digit Tray Label:  FY08/09
- IMB Mandate:  CY09
- Seamless Acceptance:  CY09

**Intelligent Mail Timeline **

## Learn more about the Intelligent Mail barcode

Visit the Rapid Information Bulletin Board System (RIBBS) website at:
(https://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/)

- Visit the Rapid Information Bulletin Board System (RIBBS) website at:
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**For More Information **

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