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PACKAGE VISIBILITY PROJECT

Jim Cochrane & Gary ReblinMailer’s Technical Advisory Committee

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Where Are We Today? USPS Bar Coded Services

* FY 2005 Express Mail, Priority Mail, Parcel Post, Media Mail, Bound Printed Matter (parcel), Parcel Select, Standard Parcel and Library Mail

% of Package Services with Bar Codes*

55.9%

44.1%

Bar Coded

Non Bar Coded

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Where Are We Today? USPS Bar Coded Services

Most Common Bar Codes on Packages*

58%

7%

26%

2%

3% 4%

Delivery Confirmation

Del Con / Insuranace

Insurance

Signature Confirmation

Certified / Return Receipt

Other

* FY 2005 Based on POS transactions

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Where Are We Today? USPS Customer Inconvenience

Confusing experience for our customers at retail Customers choose from at least 10 different forms Minimal content embedded in these bar codes Customers who purchase more than one service are required to “rewrite” information for the same mail piece.

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Where Do We Want to Be?

One intelligent bar code on every package

End to end visibility on every package

Bar codes that tell us more about the package

and shipper for systems like EVS

Intelligence from bar codes is used to manage

and grow our business

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How Do We Get ThereIntelligent Bar Code On Every Package

Standardize bar codes for domestic and international

Enable UCC/EAN 128 Bar Code Symbology on all

packages.

− Provide unique identity and sortation

Update systems to collect, pass, and analyze information

collected from the bar code

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Tracking

BMC

IMVIS

SSIU & HSIUAPPS &

SPBS

P&DC

Enhancing Our Network To Enable Tracking Of PackagesEnhancing Our Network To Enable Tracking Of Packages BMC Network

– Established enroute tracking infrastructure to support future track & trace initiatives Software updates to move to near real-time

data transfer – Improved Del Con read rates

Mailers now using UCC/EAN-128 Software enhancements to identify USPS

barcode

How Do We Get ThereMail Visibility

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Plant Network– APPS scan tunnel technology captures Del Con scans

Tied reported scans into new Enroute Tracking Infrastructure

Using scans internally for service diagnostics

– Installed first SPBS Track & Trace Scanner System Tied SPBS scans into new Enroute Tracking Infrastructure Deployment complete in Fall

– 65% of Priority volume on APPS, SPBS or Flats sorters Parcel and Flats Sorting Equipment enabled Achieving additional 1.5 million enroute scans daily

Enhancing Our Network To Enable Tracking Of PackagesEnhancing Our Network To Enable Tracking Of Packages

How Do We Get ThereMail Visibility

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How Do We Get ThereIntelligent Bar Code on Every Package

9 1 1 2 3 1 1 4 7 5 4 0 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 79 1 1 2 3 1 1 4 7 5 4 0 1 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 7

Service Service Type CodeType Code

(3 Digits)(3 Digits)

Business Entity Business Entity IDID

(6 or 9 Digits)(6 or 9 Digits)

Unique Serial Unique Serial NumberNumber

(7 Digits)(7 Digits)

Destination Destination ZIP CodeZIP Code

(5 Digits)(5 Digits)

4 2 0 2 2 2 0 24 2 0 2 2 2 0 2

UCC/EAN UCC/EAN Application Application

IdentifierIdentifier

(2 Digits)(2 Digits)

FNC1FNC1FNC1FNC1Start Start CodeCode

Stop Stop CodeCode

MOD MOD 103 103

Check Check DigitDigit

Routing Routing Application Application

IdentifierIdentifier

(3 Digits)(3 Digits)

30 Characters (FNC1 Character Not Counted)30 Characters (FNC1 Character Not Counted)

Mod 10 Mod 10 Check Check DigitDigit

* Or 4* Or 4

Bar code symbology upgraded to UCC/EAN 128• Each bar code updated to nest routing, service type,

and business ID coding• All systems in postal network will be able to recognize

and link package service and shipper by bar code

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Currently Enabled PC Postage Click-N-Ship

How Do We Get ThereBy Channel

Needs Regulation or Business Decisions Permit Retail Meter APC