The Future of Mail by Air

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The Future of Mail by Air

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A project to develop a postal air waybill (PAWB) and several related activities could enable airlines to manage mail traffic as part of their general cargo systems very soon, with significant cost and service benefits to their postal service customers. Air cargo and airmail must now travel internationally with different documents: the air waybill and postal delivery bill consignment note. Separate processes are required to track the two traffic categories, a problem compounded by the fact that airlines use air waybills to track whole consignments, whereas postal organisations want to be able to track individual bags or trays.

To bring these systems together, airlines and the postal authorities will have to work together to integrate the functions of their cargo and mail system, explains Jörgen van Mook, manager of Operations Planning for the International Post Corporation. “Then the airlines can manage mail in their cargo systems and, over time, do away with the stand-alone systems they use only for mail.â€