1 PACKAGE VISIBILITY PROJECT Jim Cochrane & Gary Reblin Mailer’s Technical Advisory Committee

2 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

3 Where Are We Today? USPS Bar Coded Services * FY 2005 Based on POS transactions

4 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.

5 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

6 How Do We Get There Intelligent 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

7 Tracking BMC IMVIS SSIU & HSIU APPS & SPBS P&DC Enhancing 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 There Mail Visibility

8  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 Packages How Do We Get There Mail Visibility

9 How Do We Get There Intelligent Bar Code on Every Package Service Type Code (3 Digits) Business Entity ID (6 or 9 Digits) Unique Serial Number (7 Digits) Destination ZIP Code (5 Digits) UCC/EAN Application Identifier (2 Digits) FNC1 FNC1 Start Code Stop Code MOD 103 Check Digit Routing Application Identifier (3 Digits) 30 Characters (FNC1 Character Not Counted) Mod 10 Check Digit * 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

10 Currently Enabled  PC Postage  Click-N-Ship How Do We Get There By Channel Needs Regulation or Business Decisions  Permit  Retail  Meter  APC