MTAC WORKGROUP

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MTAC WORKGROUP 111

• MTAC GENERAL SESSION PRESENTATION
• November 7, 2007
• Presented By
• Cher Rupp-Ruggeri
• Steve Colella

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Workgroup Issue Statement

• Identify gaps, define solutions, highlight
  benefits, and improve education and
  communications to promote PostalOne! usage by
  Mail Service Providers, such as but not limited
  to lettershops, presort bureaus, fulfillment
  companies, and consolidators.

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Meetings

• 3-Face to Face
• 11 Telecom
• Numerous Emails

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Barriers Identified

• Application Process Cumbersome
• 2. Benefits and present PostalOne! Functionality
  not always known.
• USPS round stamp eliminated from postage
  statements and security of electronic statements
• Difficult to factor spoilage into counts
• Courtesy Pallets not recognized by PostalOne!
• Software Certification and PostalOne! interface

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Recommendation for Application Barrier

• Additional training by USPS of both help desk and
  BMEU personnel emphasizing the different
  application process (on line versus in person)
• Industry associations help in the communication
  of the different application methods
• Modify application showing sections to be
  completed by USPS more clearly

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Round Stamp/Security Recommendations

• USPS send and provide official letter informing
  permit holders of change
• Clearly differentiate between pending and final
  postage statements
• Encrypt postage statements to make manipulation
  more difficult
• Change present pull model to push

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Recommendation for Benefit/Functionality Issue

• Update functionality report created by workgroup
  after each new software release and patch. Post
  on PostalOne! website in timely manner\
• Implement capability to support electronic form
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Resolution of Spoilage Issue

• PostalOne! Release 14.0 (scheduled for late
• 2007/early 2008) will use the Mail.dat Postage
• Adjustment Record (PAR) for spoilage count.
• Spoilage postage will be deducted from
• the lowest discounted rate

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Resolution of Courtesy Pallet Issue

• Customer Support Ruling PS-327 created
• When a mailer is transporting less than 12
  linear feet of trays or fewer than 100 pounds of
  sacks within a mailing to a destination BMC/ASF,
  ADC, or SCF, the mailer may place this mail on a
  low volume BMC/ASF, ADC, or SCF pallet
  respectively provided the mailer prints and
  attaches an appropriate barcoded pallet label to
  each such pallet. This provision also applies to
  the last Mixed BMC or Mixed ADC pallet within a
  mailing if it contains less than the minimum
  required volume as long as all more finely
  presorted pallets have been prepared..

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Software Certification Recommendation

• Group decided this best handled by another
  workgroup. Group submitted issue statement for
  the formation of a new workgroup.

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Thanks to Workgroup Members

• Angelo Anagnostopoulos Norine Henke Harry
  Shamenek
• Joe Bailey Mark Mandel Jim Shawver
• Mary Ann Bennett Mike Maroney John Stifter
• Lisa Bowes Dave Meyers John Thackray
• Corrie Brague Ken Miller Wallace Vingelis
• Kim Brennan Cheryl Miller Kevin Yost
• Tom Buttaccio Lloyd Moss Derrick Barnette
• Rich Casford Cindy Perkins Diane Elmer
• WK Chan Ron Price Frank Price
• Rich Domagala Linda Gustason Jan Kemme
• Christine J. Erna Sandra Ridder Judy Costello
• Rose Flanagan Jeff Robinson Jim Brockman
• Joy Frankowiak K Jon Runstrom Karen Zachok
• Susan Gensel John Sexton Tony Wilson
• Dan Goodkind Wanda Senne Bob Galaher
• Troy Fischer Sue Sevening Rick Tauceda
• Pritha Mehra Marc McCrery Helen Laverty
• Michael Kolodner

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