Intelligent Mail® Services Weekly Update
Periodicals
Service Type ID: We have identified a
significant number of Intelligent Mail® barcodes of some
national periodicals that bear the service type IDs (STID), 782 or 783.
Use of either of these implies a specific request for Address Service Requested
handling, which means the mailer is requesting the return of each undeliverable
piece to them with postage due at the single piece price. Additional
requirements include the required Ancillary Service Endorsement and the
printing of the return address on the address. Some mailers currently
using 782 or 783 appear to not be aware of the service they are requesting, and
are not printing the return address on the mailpiece. Such mailers have
subsequently requested exceptions once these mailpieces are in the mail stream,
causing a significant amount of costly and unnecessary work in the UAA
processing units. If you or your clients are not requesting return of all
undeliverable periodicals postage due, your STID options do not include 782,
783, 144, or 145. Appendix A of A Guide to Intelligent Mail for Letters and
Flats provides guidelines on the appropriate service type codes to use.
Mail.dat®
8-1: We will discontinue support
for Mail.dat 8-1 on November 14. Mailers currently using Mail.dat 8-1 to submit
electronic documentation to PostalOne!®
are encouraged to migrate to Mail.dat 8-2, or use Mail.dat 9-1 if interested in
participating in the Intelligent Mail Full-Service option.
Customer
Registration Identification (CRID) Consolidation: A CRID is a customer registration number that is assigned for each
unique business location that is or has been identified in our postal systems
applications. A new CRID is created whenever a user enters a new address
location when signing up for a business account through the Business
Customer Gateway. Currently CRIDs are created
when the combination of business name and address is unique. In many cases,
multiple CRIDs have been created by many users of the same location. Such multiple CRID assignments are
generally due to the manner in which the user creating the location account has
entered the business name and/or location. Over time, numerous users have
entered business name and location data into several postal systems. As
part of the May 11th software release to support Full-Service
Intelligent Mail, data from postal systems were centralized and were made
available as part of the Business
Customer Gateway customer user
identification system. Some customers may have discovered having multiple
location accounts (i.e., CRIDs) in the system. The intent of the CRID
consolidation effort is to eliminate as much of the overpopulation of CRIDs as
possible so that users have one CRID for each location, and all services are
attached to that one CRID. We will engage in CRID clean up during the months of
July and August and will notify mailers by letter of the results of any
affected CRIDs. As part of the CRID consolidation effort, we will:
1.
Consolidate CRIDs for locations with same and/or similar addresses and assign
one “winning” CRID to replace all related CRIDs.
2.
Replace the old CRIDs across the various systems in Full-Service supporting
functions of payment, scheduling, mail induction, and mailer identification
with the winning CRID value.
3.
Merge records for Business Service Administrators (BSA), opt-in/opt-out
choices, and pending requests.
Intelligent Mail Symposiums: The Intelligent Mail symposium scheduled for July 9 in
Assistance: Please call the PostalOne! Help Desk at 1-800-522-9085 if
you have any questions or problems accessing the Business Customer Gateway,
your accounts, or submitting electronic documentation.
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