Postal Package

The Postal Package

Digital meters have been the cause of many changes for mailers, changes that impact the look and feel of documents, cost of mailing, and the amount of information that is now available for reading and reporting with the right vision technology. To help make this change a positive one for mailers, we have packaged three powerful modules for increasing the flexibility, analysis and reporting that can be done with new digital meter indicias:

Postal Verification Module - Ensure every mailpiece will satisfy MERLIN® test standards
The USPS allows substantial discounts to mailers who prepare their mailings in a highly automated format. These work-share discounts provide the incentive for maintaining the greatest levels of automation. To do this, printed address information must follow a consistent format and specification. Verification of this consistency provides both the mailers and the USPS with an efficient production process.

BÖWE Group's JETVision Postal Verification module provides a vast collection of individual tools and technologies all designed to test the quality and postal processing efficiency of the mailpiece. Unlike other vendors' systems, these tools use the similar testing criteria and procedures as the current MERLIN program running in the USPS.

The Postal Verification module performs the following postal checks:

  • Code readability
  • Symbol contrast
  • Dimensioning and positioning tools
  • Code and address block positioning
  • Package dimensioning
  • Bar and space dimensioning
  • Skew, pitch and tilt dimensioning


Postal Break Module - Identify mailing breaks by applying marks on select mailpieces
The system reads a pre-printed symbol on an envelope and then activates an envelope marker to mark the outside of an envelope with the Postal Break operation. This mark can indicate a postal code break or represent a break in material that requires special handling by the operator.


Indicia Verify Module - Verify a meter mark or stamp has been applied
This operation is selected when there is a desire to validate that each document contains a postal meter stamp or indicia. This operation:

  • Supports both mechanical d digital meter heads
  • Supports pre-printed permit mail