Understanding Postal: Get Smart

Converting to IMB will be much more difficult than converting to POSTNET. Still, barcode conversion might be the easiest of the new requirements to meet in practical terms. Catalogers need to start looking at these issues now when there's time to make adjustments or raise the alarm. Beyond the difficulties catalogers may encounter, those wishing to use the full-service option, which could have the most attractive postal rate in the future, will face more hurdles, including creating those unique mail piece identification numbers and nesting into postal containers.