Mail Security Task Force

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• Mail Security Task Force
• Mail Preparation Working Group

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Mail Security Task Force Mail Preparation
Members Mailing Industry

• American Express
• Association for Postal Commerce
• Capitol One
• Direct Marketing Association
• District Photo
• Envelope Manufacturers Association
• Kodak
• Magazine Publishers of America
• Mailing Fulfillment Service Association
• Military Postal Service Agency
• National Association of Presort Mailers
• Parcel Shippers Association
• Publishers Clearing House
• Quebecor World
• RR Donnelley
• Time

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Mail Security Task Force Mail Preparation
Initiatives

• Industry best practices for mail security
• Identified Mailer
• Identified need for contingency plans to notify
  mailers about closed facilities and diverted mail
• Briefing about mail transport equipment
• Briefing about cleaning facilities and trailers

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Mail Security Task Force Mail Preparation
Mailer Concerns About Sanitization

• Damage to contents
• Delay in processing and delivery
• Increase in USPS processing costs
• Negative impact on the perception of mail and the
  mailing industry

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Mail Security Task Force Mail Preparation
Possible Solution A Way to Bypass Sanitization

• Leverage established relationships with business
  mailers
• Identified mailer
• Unsure how to name this process

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Mail Security Task Force Mail Preparation
Working Definition of an Identified Mailer

• Pays with permit imprint, meter postage, PC
  postage, or precanceled stamps
• Presents a mailing with a postage statement or
  other traceable documentation
• Presents mail via a face-to-face transaction
• Presents mailpieces that contain any traceable
  marking (such as ACS or MLOCR codes)
• Mails via any other permit (e.g., BRM or MRS)

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Mail Security Task Force Mail Preparation
Next Steps

• Refine the criteria for identified mailer
• Explore operational changes necessary to support
  mail from identified mailers
• Determine method and scope of mail sanitization