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Royal Mail Mailmark ®. What do I need to do?. Royal Mail Mailmark ®. Royal Mail Mailmark ®. Mailmark™ provides mail users with a new level of management information consignment level reporting on when mail is processed predicted delivery information item level data on exceptions
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Royal Mail Mailmark® What do I need to do? Royal Mail Mailmark®
Royal Mail Mailmark® • Mailmark™ provides mail users with a new level of management information • consignment level reporting on when mail is processed • predicted delivery information • item level data on exceptions • To get this information, mail will need to be produced differently and data may need to be handled differently • This is a quick guide to what you will need to do in order to start producing Mailmark™mail Royal Mail Mailmark®
Who is Mailmark™ for? • Mailmark™is an attribute of Business, Advertising and Publishing mail • It is available with Low Sort (machinable) options of those services • Mailmark™services can be accessed through both Retail and Network Access channels • High volume mailers (posting millions of items a year) are likely to get the most benefit from Mailmark™services Royal Mail Mailmark®
So what’s new? • Each mailpiece needs to have a barcode/2D datamatrix (a Mailmark™) printed on to it – the existing Royal Mail barcode (CBC) is not required • Each Mailmark™must contain a unique item reference number and Supply Chain ID – Royal Mail issues the Supply Chain ID, you are responsible for creating item reference numbers • An electronic register (eManifest) of these item reference numbers must be provided to Royal Mail before the mail is handed over • Reports will be generated and viewable at www.royalmail.com Royal Mail Mailmark®
How do I do it? • All supporting documentation is available on the Mailmark™ website • A number of third party software suppliers can support the creation of the Mailmark™barcode and eManifest – details can be found at www.royalmail.com/mailmark • We will give you access to a test site to enable you to check that your web services are working • We offer a Quality Assurance process so that you can run a full test of your solution before you mail for the first time Royal Mail Mailmark®
What else do I need to consider? • eManifests must be unique to Supply Chains – you may be producing several eManifestseach day • What you put into an eManifest must match what you actually mail on any given day • You will need to manage the allocation of item reference numbers – these must stay unique for 90 days within a Supply Chain • You will need to work with your customers to ensure that they can understand the information we provide in reports – we can help with this as you get closer to mailing Royal Mail Mailmark®
What support will I get? • This is the first stage in a 5 step journey to realising the benefits of Mailmark™ • At each stage we can provide a wealth of supporting material • We will also run regular workshops to go into more detail and answer your questions • The Mailmark™Customer Take-on team will be available to provide more individual support if required Royal Mail Mailmark®