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Automating the

Post-Presort Process

About Anchor Software

▪ Founded in 1998

▪ We have over 1,500 product installs and over 65 products

▪ Provide software solutions for Data Quality, Postal Compliance,

Mail Processing, and Document Design

▪ Actively engaged in shaping our industry through participation and

leadership in MTAC, Idealliance, AMEE, Postcom and numerous

PCC’s

▪ We provide 24/ Technical Support

Automating the

Post-Presort Process

Presenter for this webinar:

Monica LundquistMarketing & Training

Specialist

Agenda

▪ Presort vs Post-presort

▪ Compliance and validation

▪ Mail.dat® Editing/Processing

▪ Logistics Optimization

▪ PostalOne!® Transactions

▪ Questions

Presort vs. Post-Presort Software

▪ Presort software creates the “plan” for the

mailing

✓ Address hygiene

✓ Move Update

✓ Duplicate elimination

✓ Postal presort sequencing

▪ Plans change…

Presort vs. Post-Presort Software

▪ Post-Presort software allows for changes in plans

✓ Allows for easy editing and manipulation of mail.dat

files for

‒ Piece weight changes

‒ Spoilage

‒ Partial Mailings

‒ Drop Ship Analysis and Optimization

✓ Match the postal documentation to the actual mailing

Endless repetitive steps

Manual processing steps

▪ Repetitive

▪ Time consuming

▪ Labor intensive

▪ Tedious

▪ Inefficient

Compliance and Validation

Compliance and Validation solutions

▪ YourScore: Mailer Scorecard monitoring

▪ DAT-PreCheck: Mail.dat file validation

▪ DAT-MAIL Prep: Mail.dat file viewer, mini-

editor, validator and pre-processor

Mail.dat file editing

Your challenges and bottlenecks?

Repetitive steps in post-presort processing

▪ Importing Mail.dat files

▪ Validating Mail.dat files

▪ Repetitive edits

▪ Repetitive processes

▪ AWAM to the rescue!

Automated Logistics Management

Total Logistics Management

▪ Planalyzer: drop ship analysis and optimization

▪ LTL shipping quotes from TruckDirectMail

▪ PMOD pricing and production

▪ wbSCAN: finished mail pallet inventory system

▪ Multi-Carrier Trailer Manifesting

PostalOne! challenges and bottlenecks

Many mailers are frustrated with using

PostalOne!

▪ Time consuming

▪ Labor intensive to track eDoc submissions

▪ Constantly log in to monitor job submissions

▪ Can’t understand feedback/error messages

▪ Difficult to fix files that failed validation

PostalWeb with Connector and Desktop Dashboard

✓ Works with Mail.dat files generated by

any presort software, MLOCR or

post-presort program

✓ Stand alone: no need to use post-presort

Challenges when using USPS MDR Client

USPS MDR Client becomes a bottleneck

▪ Long wait times for MDR Client processing

▪ Long time spent waiting for job to be completed before

moving to next job

PostalWeb Connector:

▪ Automate PostalOne! upload

▪ Notify you of the status with an email or text messages

PostalWeb: better ways to work with PostalOne!

A new solution, a better way to work with P1

▪ User friendly: allows users with limited

Mail.dat® knowledge to fix validation errors

▪ No need to read the USPS® Client.log or Debug.log files

anymore!

▪ Get feedback from PostalOne! in a clear, concise and

automated manner

PostalWeb: better ways to work with PostalOne!

▪ Eliminates the labor-intensive work involved with using the

USPS MDR Client software

▪ No more sitting, waiting and looking at job listings on the

MDR Client to see if submissions were successfully

processed!

▪ Free to focus on other tasks while PostalWeb Connector

performs all of the monitoring for you

Email and text notifications

PostalWeb gives you Email and Text Message notification of

PostalOne! events that may require user intervention such as:

✓MDR Client validation failure

✓ PostalOne! server validation failure

✓ Job acceptance failure

✓ Submission rejection

✓Reversed statements and PostalOne! database insert failures

✓Get notified for successful events, e.g., when your statements are

finalized!

QuickFix™

Mail.dat editor:

fix PostalOne!Validation Errors fast!

View and print PostalOne! documents

▪ Allows access to PostalOne! documents

✓ PostalWeb

connection

✓ Finalized statements

✓ Unpaid statements

✓ Confirmation pages

✓ 3607 receipts

PostalWeb Connector

Connector is the engine

✓ Configure for

PROD, PREPROD,

CAT or TEM

✓ Use with Desktop

Dashboard User

Interface

Are you spending too much time retrieving

documents from PostalOne!?

▪ Automates retrieval of documents from PostalOne!

▪ Web based solution platform

Document Retrieval

PostalWeb

▪ Provides unique job dashboard

▪ Can automatically deliver statement PDF’s and XML’s to

mailers and/or mail owners

▪ Automated delivery of UPD (unpaid) and finalized

postage statements, UPD barcoded Confirmation

pages, 3607 mailing receipts

PostalWeb Statement Options

▪ Official USPS form

specified in DMM

▪ PostalOne! dashboard

format (HTML)

▪ 3607 Mailing Receipt

Conclusion

▪ Complete end-to-end automation of all post-presort

processes

▪ Tailored to each unique environment

✓ Use as much or as little of the automation tools as needed

▪ Start with one or two automation tools, then build on that

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Q & A

Thank You!

Any questions? Visit our website: www.AnchorComputerSoftware.com