As 2020 quickly comes into view, the upcoming year has been well primed for a busy year of postal activity for the mailing industry. January 2020 Price Change: The first item on deck is the annual price change which will go into effect on January 26, 2020. The Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) has provided the required...
The final MTAC meeting of 2019 occurred the week of October 28th. Many attendees were thinking this was likely the last MTAC meeting for Post-Master General™ (PMG) Megan Brennan with the recent announcement that she would be retiring. PMG Brennan will officially retire on January 31, 2020. At the same meeting, the dates for the...
The Postal Service has stated that they have a goal of moving all Intelligent Mail Barcode Full-Service mailers to Seamless Acceptance by 2021. Is your company ready to make that move? Seamless Acceptance is a Postal Service program that has been available to mailers for several years now. The Seamless Acceptance Fact Sheet and Guide...
The three phases of data evolution The mailing process has changed dramatically over the years. Decreasing your postal costs used to be focused exclusively on minimizing the total postage. Postage continues to be an important (and growing) part of postal costs, but a new factor continues to grow in importance when assessing the overall value...
Mailers Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC), is a meeting between key Postal Service leadership and mailing industry representatives. MTAC meets four times a year at Postal Service headquarters with a focus on collaboration and feedback. Discussions are grouped into four focus areas which are leveraged to: Discuss and provide feedback on proposed changes Review system updates...
First, a brief overview on our earlier articles on Informed Delivery. Part I: Should Commercial Mailers Be Scared of Informed Delivery and Hybrid Digital Mail? We discussed concerns of Commercial Mailers around the new communication and marketing platform from USPS called Informed Delivery. Part II: Hybrid-Digital Use Cases for Businesses, Where we explained multiple industry use...
In the profitability equation for posts and delivery organizations, service optimization and cost-cutting are usually the first items on the executive’s minds. Operational excellence is a prerequisite for growth through reliable, predictable service. From there, revenue growth is the KPI that can revitalize a business, attract new investment, and enable additional measures to increase profitability....
In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement. Ben Bernanke Executives use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to understand whether their companies are making progress toward goals, and if not, what adjustments need to be made to get them there. KPIs are the...
Every action taken in a business setting is a data point. Nowhere in business is more data generated than in the fields of marketing and customer relationship management. A great deal of the software and techniques developed to manage big data are grounded in the marketing function. Assurety Consulting has developed and maintained some of...
Assurety Consulting champions data, analytics, AI, and automation as the main drivers of change and organizational improvement in the postal and parcel industry. In our work with commercial mailers, delivery organizations, and posts in developing nations, we encounter a common refrain: our clients often believe their organizations are too small to take advantage of big data...
As a USPS contractor, Assurety defined B2B solutions for the mailing and shipping supply chain, and for the following USPS system functionalities: • Definition and development of solutions for Full-Service Intelligent Mail including: Full-Service ACS, Mail Tracking, Informed Visibility data reporting and communications, Rules for mail preparations, classification and verifications, MID/GRID creation, management and communication functionality, Qualification reports, Postage Statements, FAST appointment scheduling Content Management and B2B transactional functionality MicroStrategy OLAP reports design, Surface Visibility functionality; and The SASP (Seamless Acceptance) system.
Mail Entry and Payment TechnologyPritha Mehra (Vice President)
