Mailpiece Characteristics Report

This report provides information on the physical characteristics of mail pieces in this MERLIN run.  It will highlight any individual mail pieces that violate physical standards according to the appropriate section of the DMM.

Mailpiece Characteristics Report Fields
Report Tag	P1	Description	Source	
Permit Number	Y	The Permit Number of this mailing.	The Permit Number entered on the Permit Information screen in the GUI.	
Mail Class		A text string specifying whether this mailing is first class or standard class.	This is determined by the selections made by the operator on the Mailing Type Screen in the GUI.  If any first class postage statements are selected then this is a first class mailing.  The same applies for standard class.	
Mail Category		This is a text string describing the category of this mailing.  The display will show letters or flats.	This is determined as the user enters the tray tags into MERLIN.  If this is a flats tray then the mailing type is flats.  If this is a letter tray then the mailing type is letters.  Note that since postcards can be mingled with letters and/or submitted in letter trays, postcards will never show as a value in this field.  It will be displayed as letters.	
Mailing Date		The date of the mailing.	The Mailing Date field on the Mailing Profile screen in the GUI.	
# Acceptable		The number of mail pieces that did not exceed the appropriate physical limits.
This field is repeated once for Height, Weight, Length and Thickness.	The height and length come from the IPC.  The weight comes from the MERLIN scale, and the thickness comes from the MERLIN thickness detector.
Note that all these values are adjusted by the allowed tolerance similar to the weight.
All allowed values are determined based on the mailing type and tray type.  These values can be different for each different tray type as specified in the DMM.	
# Read	Y	The number of mail pieces containing the appropriate physical characteristic data.
This field is repeated once for Height, Weight, Length and Thickness.	The number of mail pieces containing data for the appropriate fields.  Some mail pieces will have data for some of the fields but not all.	
Percent Acceptable	Y	The Percentage of acceptable mail pieces out of the total mail pieces with data.
This field is repeated once for Height, Weight, Length and Thickness.	The number of good mail pieces divided by the number of mail pieces with data for that physical characteristic multiplied by 100.	
TrayID		The tray number containing this problem mail piece.	The tray number is assigned as the trays are entered in the enter tray tag screen.  This will always be the order that the trays are run when the operator follows the MERLIN tray prompts.  The tray number starts from one.	
MPID		The Mail Piece Identification Number of this problem mail piece.	This is the Identification number sprayed on every piece as it passes through the machine.  This is the exact ID number of a mail piece that MERLIN can’t match to a valid meter plate number in the database.	
Min, Max		The minimum and maximum value acceptable for that mail piece characteristic.
These two fields are repeated for each of the four physical characteristics.  These values are only shown once at the header of the report.
Note that there is no minimum for the mail piece weight.	These are pulled from the postal tables based on tray types.  These values are taken from the appropriate section of the DMM based on the mailing and mail type.	
Height		The measured height of this mail piece.  This value will only appear if MERLIN finds it to be out of spec.  If a mail piece has one out of spec characteristic, the other three in spec characteristics will not appear on the report.	This comes from the imaging PC and is determined by processing the actual image.	
Length		The measured length of this mail piece.  This value will only appear if MERLIN finds it to be out of spec.  If a mail piece has one out of spec characteristic, the other three in spec characteristics will not appear on the report.	This comes from the imaging PC and is determined by processing the actual image.	
Thickness		The measured thickness of this mail piece.  This value will only appear if MERLIN finds it to be out of spec.  If a mail piece has one out of spec characteristic, the other three in spec characteristics will not appear on the report.	This is from MERLIN’s thickness detector.	
Weight		The measured weight of this mail piece.  This value will only appear if MERLIN finds it to be out of spec.  If a mail piece has one out of spec characteristic, the other three in spec characteristics will not appear on the report.	This comes from the MERLIN scale.