Headline

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MTAC
Workgroup 100 Seamless Acceptance for MLOCR
Environment
Co-chairs Industry Jay Gillotte USPS Pritha
Mehra
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Pilot Status

• Pilot mailings started on May 4 for two MLOCR
  inkjet mailers and added third mailer on
  September 12
• Prudential (4CB) 67 FCM jobs, 2,472,039 pieces
• PSI (PLANET Code) 46 FCM jobs, 182,793 pieces
• ZipSort (Unique 4CB) 11 FCM jobs, 13,982 pieces
• Using piece scan data to verify
• Mailpiece Count
• Presort Errors
• Minimum Piece Count per ZIP Group
• Barcode Quality
• Barcode Validity

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Preliminary Findings
Data collected through the pilot indicates that
Seamless Acceptance is possible.

• Electronic Documentation Quality
• All mailers have substantially improved their
  manifest quality
• Piece counts differences between files are below
  1 from 2.5 in August
• Tray associations are nearing 100
• Mailpiece Counts
• Increases in scan rate allow accurate
  determination of the number of manifested pieces
• Presort Errors
• Errors caught by MERLIN are also found by SAVP
• Barcode Quality
• Declines in barcode quality lead to corresponding
  declines in scan percentage
• Barcode Validity
• Average 1.5 to 2 invalid POSTNET

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Mailer Participation
Developing a Seamless Acceptance Process Document

• Provide electronic documentation via Mail.dat or
  Web Services that includes
• For each ZIP group (logical tray), a piece count
  by
• Destination, Presort Level, and ZIP Code
• For each physical tray
• Unique Tray ID (EDL)
• For each piece
• Unique 4CB
• Presort Level
• BEI in the Permit/IBI applied to the piece

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Mailer Participation (cont)
Developing a Seamless Acceptance Process Document

• Universally apply appropriate barcodes
• Mailpieces Unique 4CB including delivery point
• Tray Unique EDL
• Pallet (Optional) Surface Visibility Mailer
  Pallet Barcode
• Register Permit Indicia to ensure uniqueness
• Use BEI exclusively on Seamless Acceptance
  mailings

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Business Entity Identifier (BEI)
Participants in Seamless Acceptance will need a
Business Entity Identifier (BEI).

• BEIs can be 6 or 9 digits
• Large mailers will receive 6 digit BEI, all
  others will receive 9 digit
• Given to any customer type (i.e. mail owners,
  mail producers, mail preparers, etc)
• Seamless Acceptance participants must obtain a
  BEI used exclusively for Seamless Acceptance
  mailings
• Used to uniquely identify Seamless Acceptance
  participants
• Used to distinguish Seamless Acceptance pieces
  from other pieces for that customer in the mail
  stream

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Next Steps

• The pilot will be expanded and continued to
  verify initial results and incorporate additional
  data.

• Deploy Postage Payment for First-Class Mail
  (Dec.)
• Begin testing 4CB with delivery point application
• Validate Move Update through OneCode ACS
• Include additional piece scan data
• 2D Meter Barcode Scans
• Mailpiece dimension data
• Integrate Tray Weights and EOR data
• Determine appropriate tolerances for each
  verification element
• Explore postage assessment approach