DIGITAL digest

Ryan indicated 25 percent of the mailing had marking, tears or an ink-jet strip. Of the four postal centers, results showed Miami and New York City were the worst facilities, while Chicago and Los Angeles were the best. Mary Valdez, of the USPS branch in Phoenix, discussed automated mail handling. She pointed out that mail can go through various processing machinery as much as six times. Thus, she advised mailers to consider barcoding to bypass OCR and Label Making Letter Machine (LMLM) equipment.