Mail.Dat Save More on Mailing

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Mail.dat is necessary to submit presort paperwork to the USPS electronically and will be mandatory in order to be considered a Full Service Intelligent Mail Barcode participant.

Mail.dat is a data formatting standard for communicating information about a specific mailing, including data at the segment, pallet, sack or tray, and package levels. It can be used for logistics planning, mail assembly, production and postal payment acceptance.

Send and receive statistical information about mailings without translating the proprietary formatting specifications of various software vendors.

ASCII fixed-format ("flat") files, a perfect medium for communicating complete information describing a complex mailing which can easily be imported into any relational database management system or used as-is by in-house software.


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Pushing the Envelope

Public policy debates about solving the Postal Service’s financial crisis have largely focused on reducing costs by cutting service such as Saturday delivery, transitioning from brick and mortar post offices to alternative retail sales channels, or limiting other functions performed by the Postal Service.

Some of the strategies under discussion include:

• Ending Saturday delivery.
• Reducing the size of the workforce.
• Making postal employees pay the same share of health and life insurance premiums that other federal employees pay.
• Generating revenue through new products.
• Allowing the Postal Service more pricing freedom.
• Restructuring the Postal Service’s network of mail processing facilities.
• Moving retail services from Post Offices to alternative access options.

FTI keeps you informed about all the most relevant postal news through our sources. Pushing the Envelope has many ramifications for the communication needs of the country, aside from the postal industry. What will it mean for the avaerage American to put less interest in their mailbox? What will it mean for business transitions into laternative forms of marketing?

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Last week the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security held a hearing on the Future of the Postal Service. The week before there was a hearing in the House on the Postal Service’s financial crisis and future viability, and on April 12, the Government Accountability Office issued a report laying out the strategies and options to maintain the Postal Service’s viability.

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Mail.dat is a relational database that uses a filing system to facilitate efficient and process-enhancing mailing communications. It contributes to important gains in efficiency, economy, and strategy enhancement and has become the standard embraced by a significant portion of the mailing industry and the US Postal Service.

The flexibility Mail.dat offers users to share those files that are necessary for their purpose, thus eliminating complicated options selection, making things easier for new users as well as streamlining more complex applications.

The US Postal Service accepts Mail.dat as an electronic representation of the mailing and as a replacement for the traditional hardcopy documentation. Mail.dat also accounts for variations that might be present in any USPS or Canada Post mailing.

Use Mail.DAT data format to allow the transmission of electronic Postal Service postal reports, for easier and faster postal acceptance and for a more streamlined payment process, as part of the PostalOne!® program.

Talk to your Freelance Technologies consultant today to find out what the best deals in mailing software and data quality control are for your business needs.

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IMB is in the Green

IMB is in the Green- incentive to economize your mailing system and get data quality up to par!

New Intelligent Mail barcode specifications will help save space on envelopes and get mail on its correct route with little tolerance for undeliverable addresses.

This eco-friendly move will also put more cash back in your pocket with financial incentives to be compliant when it went into effect on May 11th, 2009.

Now is the time to take a realistic look at your company’s green initiatives and ask whether or not the practices undertaken are “evergreen” – promoting not only environmental conservation, but also sound business practices and solid return on investment so as to be sustainable in good economic conditions as well as bad.

Did you know that six million trees and more than 300 million pounds of paper are wasted each year on undeliverable-as-addressed mail (UAA) Standard class mail? It costs the USPS over two billion dollars annually to process this true “junk mail”. And the cost to mailers is even more dramatic – UAA mail costs direct mailers over six billion dollars a year...

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