Post #391,104
6/24/14 11:00:35 AM
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Anybody done mailing systems?
I know Crazy has done the bulk mail, I'm talking about a bunch of one-offs. Here's the use case:
* One or more documents, available as PDF, need to be assembled, printed, folded, inserted, sealed, weighed and postage applied.
* Capture and report per-piece postage cost.
All the steps in the first group are available. Lots of systems available that combine the folder/inserter with the postage meter; I haven't seen any that combine the printer, so we'd still have to print then manually move paper to a new device.
What I haven't seen is anything that will capture and report the postage cost per-piece.
Anybody got a pointer?
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Post #391,106
6/24/14 11:16:58 AM
6/24/14 11:38:45 AM
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Re: Anybody done mailing systems?
The USPS has charts and graphs and detailed info on it. Based on how you sort it, how you package it, how you load it, wheter or not it is an open piece needing tabs to hold it close of a spot of glue to hold it closed... total weight of the entire mailing and who picks it up from your facility or if it is dropped off at a pre-sort facility. Most Fulfillment/Pre-sorting companies do all that for you. The Dmoestic Mail Manual tells all: http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/dmm300_landing.htm--
greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Edited by folkert
June 24, 2014, 11:38:45 AM EDT
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Post #391,108
6/24/14 11:35:55 AM
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We're looking for hardware to do this in-house
The folder/inserter machines we've seen have barcode scanners to accept control codes indicating first page/last page, but we haven't found any postage meters that read codes to capture cost on a per-document basis.
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Post #391,109
6/24/14 11:45:12 AM
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Call a Fulfillment house and ask...
Most will be willing to help you.
Also, you'll find you'll have to have all you mail weighed and certified... and if you have enough volume, you be forced to have a Post Station in your building and have a person from the post office running your mail through a machine to verify you've done it right. --
greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #391,110
6/24/14 11:52:34 AM
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Re: Anybody done mailing systems?
One off means no postal discounts.
Do you really mean this, or is it a group on demand?
And are there enough in a given postal zone to justify the presort?
And yes, all the systems I did was a postal sort step which in turn means we prefilled the database with postal info before even printing.
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Post #391,126
6/24/14 3:15:38 PM
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Good question
We're doing about 500 pieces per day. Enough volume that we want a machine to speed it up but I don't know that we've discussed pre-sorting. I'll look into that. Right now it's on-demand, but if pre-sorting would save us money I'm sure we could queue that up.
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Post #391,131
6/24/14 3:26:49 PM
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Pre-sorting...
The Software to do that is very unhappy chappy... and costs a lot. Plus it has to be NCOA certified... or whaat ever the Hen it is called now. --
greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #391,132
6/24/14 3:27:50 PM
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Isn't it just zip-code grouping?
I used to do that by hand for a once-a-week process. I can't imagine how it's terribly hard to do.
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Post #391,133
6/24/14 3:34:34 PM
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Nopers...
It is possibly down to packet grouping in "walk sequence ordering" for the carriers on each route and street.
If you don't really have walk sequence density... you aren't going to save a lot. --
greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #391,136
6/24/14 3:59:04 PM
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And 500/day probably won't hit that
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Post #391,138
6/24/14 4:02:37 PM
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Nopers...
But automating your end of it will reduce you contents generation and packing side of things greatly.
And really, postage isn't *REALLY* your biggest cost anyway.
Auto your 500 pieces a day, they just flop it into a basket and sort it on the main machine anyway. It sorts into 200 different bins... destined for BMCs (Big Mail Centers) which then sort it in carrier sequence and then the carriers sort it manually. --
greg@gregfolkert.net
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Post #391,153
6/24/14 10:53:31 PM
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Wow!.. that's just a bitchin re-cap of a process
I was once asked to wonder about (for someone; natch I punted as iggerant.).
Pity we can'r dump your jelloware Extended-memory into some bit-brash melange: save many from n-Hours getting to speed.
ie me Bows to such orderly-Recall (across so many 'issues'--spanning all these years) and.. just those as you've posted here (!)
Whereas I have to think twice about such as, nλ = 2d sin θ, (as the CPU-speed begins to er, sinusoidally-deplenerate?)
Doncha just Hate-it when a factoid you Know you know/knew? hides behind some Other word-association and that fucking synapse grabs the Query-buss .. and just won't shut-up!
;^>
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