Red Tag Revival? Royal Mail to Launch Their Intelligent Mail

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The UK’s national postal service is the latest to provide an ‘IMB’ system for tracking and tracing mail.

Royal Mail is a national institution in the United Kingdom. Responsible for universal mail delivery and collection in the UK, the organization delivers over 80 million items every working day.

As you can imagine this creates a need for tracking and confirmation services for mailers. In the U.S.A., the USPS has offered an IMB solution for some time, while in contrast Royal Mail has been busy developing various alternative systems to meet the needs of the UK population. That work is about to come to fruition with the release of a new IMB solution.

A product named Red Tag was due to become the Royal Mail’s initial foray into IMB a year ago, but this was put on hold after a limited trial period. Revitalised and re-launched as ‘Enterprise Intelligent Barcode’ (EIB), the new and improved tracking and tracing system will get a public airing next week at an exclusive launch event in London.

Of course, as we work closely with Royal Mail and other postal services, we’ll be at the event to bring you more details. Crawford Technologies has been providing an industry leading IMB solution for many years through our PRO Mail Tracker and PRO Unique ID Manager products; these products produce the barcodes and maintain the unique ID databases for each mail piece while interfacing with current mailing environments.

As Royal Mail launches their Intelligent Mail Barcode solution, CrawfordTech leads the way in providing software to help you integrate this new offering quickly and efficiently. Through our proven IMB solution we give our customers the ability to produce the barcodes post-composition with no changes needed to applications, document composition systems or processes. The result is increased productivity, better tracking and more revenue added to your bottom-line.

Look out for more details on Royal Mail’s Enterprise Intelligent Barcode programme as they become available.

[bensonhedge]

ahhh...80 million items a day eh! best keep that one quiet.

[P13]

ahhh...80 million items a day eh! best keep that one quiet.

Sounds like the good old days