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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