UPU Specifies Alien Technology Tags in Global Postal Application

Logistics Insight Asia - Technology & Market Trends, 4/12/2009

AIDA Center and Alien have teamed up to provide a complete solution for the Universal Postal Union’s (UPU) 21 member country quality efficiency program.

Explains Joan Pons, MD of the AIDA Center, “The Universal Postal Union recently issued a tender to upgrade its existing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) control technology, used to measure mail delivery efficiencies throughout their global postal network. The center designed a quality control process based on a custom postal design, covering the main mail workflow requirements. The application involves placement of Alien Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) tags within several thousand test-delivery envelopes which are subsequently circulated throughout various post offices around the world. The tagged envelopes are then read at distinct locations and the efficiency of the postal network is then measured and quantified. The main objective being to identify potentially slow mail routes and bottlenecks to provide quality control enhancements in order to streamline the processes – so consistent tag reads are critical to the entire operation.”

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