1. MTAC Workgroup 100 Seamless Acceptance for MLOCR Environment Co-chairs Industry – Jay Gillotte USPS – Pritha Mehra

2. 2 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction What is Seamless Acceptance? Seamless Acceptance – Vision Statement Implementing value-added systems to streamline and automate the business processes of accepting, verifying, paying, and inducting business mailings into the USPS mail stream.

3. 3 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction MTAC Workgroup 100 Desired Results of Workgroup  Identify gaps in the PostalOne! system that inhibit transition from paper postage statements/documentation to electronic  Evaluate Web Services and Mail.dat to identify enhancements to facilitate migration to electronic postage and documentation  Define capabilities of seamless acceptance for both in-house and third party MLOCR environments for First-Class Mail ®  Identify gaps in current acceptance and verification processes  Identify key differences between in-house and third party providers of MLOCR processing, and identify gaps in each environment  Identify gaps in USPS communication systems that inhibit timely feedback of verification or performance information to the mailer

4. 4 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction MTAC Workgroup 100 Pilot Test Status  Two mailers, Prudential in Millville, NJ & PSI in Omaha, NE volunteered to participate in Pilot Test  They agreed to use Mail.dat platform to transmit electronic documentation and postage  Several telecons held between USPS, Prudential, PSI, and Bell & Howell to develop the pilot test procedures  Vendor, Bell & Howell, developed MLOCR First-Class Mail.dat upgrade

5. 5 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction MTAC Workgroup 100 Prudential – Pilot Status  USPS headquarters produced GAPS analysis for Prudential  Bell & Howell upgraded Prudential software to produce Mail.dat file  Prudential capable of producing Mail.dat files after MLOCR first pass  Prudential Mail.dat files to USPS for entry into Test  USPS has provided Prudential with access to PostalOne!  Prudential identified computer for access to PostalOne! during pilot  USPS HQ has reviewed PostalOne! Dashboard with the local BMEU  USPS HQ visited Prudential plant to assess mail flow processes

6. 6 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction MTAC Workgroup 100 PSI – Pilot Status  Bell & Howell has upgraded PSI software to produce Mail.dat file  PSI sent mailing information to Bell & Howell, who has converted it to a Mail.dat file & sent it to USPS for testing  PSI has sent 5 Standard mailings and 5 FCM to USPS for CAT testing  PSI has one ACE computer at their Omaha, NE facility and is preparing to bring this facility online for testing March 1 to transmit MLOCR Mail.dat file electronically to PostalOne!

7. 7 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction MTAC Workgroup 100 Pilot Next Steps  Evaluate Pilot Test and report at next MTAC meeting  Evaluate capability to transmit Mail.dat file directly to PostalOne! from MLOCR platform  USPS to upgrade PostalOne! with newly submitted requirements to generate postage statements from MLOCR Mail.dat file, including postage due portion

8. 8 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction  Dashboard will display consolidated reports  Improved Reports  Improved postage statement processing.  Automated Value Added Refund process. PostalOne! Enhancements and Changes

9. 9 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction Improved Dashboard & Reports PostalOne Enhancements and Changes

10. 10 Seamless Acceptance & Induction Seamless Acceptance & Induction Questions? Questions?