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MailPro Direct marketers can go green by using eco-friendly inks and papers. |
INTELLIGENT MAIL BARCODES — NEW MAILER GUIDE AND FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS We have several documents available to help answer customers’ questions about using Intelligent Mail barcodes. Go to ribbs.usps.gov and click Intelligent Mail Full Service Guides. You will find helpful information including:
For additional information on the Intelligent Mail barcode, visit the Rapid Information Bulletin Board System (RIBBS) website at: ribbs.usps.gov. MORE GREEN INNOVATIONS To help protect the environment, the Postal Service encourages businesses to find creative solutions that help mailers go green. One business — MailAgain of Houston, TX — has been doing just that for nearly 20 years. MailAgain has developed mailing technologies focused on providing reliable, cost-effective and USPS-approved solutions for reusable reply mail. The company has several products that are either patented or patent-pending, including reusable courtesy reply envelopes, business reply envelopes and CD/DVD mailers. Each uses a “fail safe loop mail” design that allows the Postal Service to run the outbound and return portions on automation machinery. According to MailAgain, the company’s green solutions are easy to implement and offer operational savings to mailers, while helping conserve precious environmental resources. STICKING AROUND Repostionable Notes (RPNs) are now a permanent option for commercial First-Class Mail, Periodicals and Standard Mail cards, letters and flats. RPNs are 3-inch by 3-inch removable paper notes that remind customers about upcoming sales, websites, phone numbers or other important marketing messages. RPNs add valuable real estate to the outside of a mailpiece, and your message sticks around long after the mailpiece is opened. |
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In our April 30 Federal Register notice, we proposed that mailing standards and prices for automation letters and flats with Intelligent Mail barcodes become effective in May 2009, concurrent with the implementation of the annual price changes for Mailing Services. POSTNET barcodes will continue to be accepted on automation letters and flats until May 2010. The announcement of our May 2009 price adjustment (scheduled for February 2009) will include separate prices for the two options, with full-service prices lower than the basic service (and POSTNET barcode) prices. The comment period for this proposed rule expired May 30. A complete copy of the April 30 proposed rule can be viewed at pe.usps.com, click Federal Register Notices in the left navigation bar. 
Working with USPS Engineering, MailAgain obtained automation compatibility certification for its letter-sized CD/DVD mailers. And MailAgain’s design eliminates the need for adding separate address labels or tabbing, streamlining production and returns for its customers.
