Sunday, September 23, 2007

Our New Proof of Mailing Manifest

We're very pleased to highlight the attached video.

USPS Proof Of Mailing Manifest

This shows how we have engineered an interface with the US Postal Service to create an acceptance scan with the US Postal Service analagous to the acceptance scan with FedEx and UPS.

Until now, you could tender packages to the US Postal Service and somewhere, inside the mailstream, you'd get the first scan. Sometimes that happened at the moment of tendering, and sometimes it happened thereafter, and nobody had the authority to compel a scan up front.

Our programming now requires the USPS Employee to provide a scan at the moment of tendering the packages. We're using an exisitng form that before now was only available in paper format -- and we've created it (a) for Internet Online Postage (IOP), made it available (b) per customer and (c) per batch of mailings. Those are the breakthroughs.

Having indulged in a brief "Eureka!", we are now changing our website and contracts to inform and instruct customers on required use of the Proof of Mailing Manifest.