Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 29/10/1998

Proposed Domestic Mail Manual Changes to Implement New Labeling List L001 and to Implement Package Reallocation for Periodicals and Standard Mail (A) Flats Placed on Pallets

The migration of flat-size Periodicals and Standard Mail (A) from sacks to pallets during the past several years has compelled both the Postal Service and the mailing community to take a closer look at how mail is being sorted to pallets to identify opportunities for improvement. Early last year, the Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) Presort Optimization Work Group, comprised of representatives of the Postal Service, presort software vendors, mail owners, and printers, was established to study and recommend changes in presort software and sortation levels to improve the overall pattern of containerization of mail by reducing or eliminating residual mail and by reducing or eliminating inefficient use of containers. The MTAC work group has identified two significant opportunities to improve the presort of palletized Periodicals and Standard Mail (A) flats. These are based on (1) protecting the sectional center facility (SCF) pallet level through the reallocation of packages from finer- level pallets to higher-level pallets (e.g., by moving packages from a 5-digit or 3-digit pallet to an SCF pallet that would not otherwise be created) and (2) by increasing the amount of mail