Postage administration delivers control

- POSTStream^® C/O service delivers postal cost control end-to-end

21 Grams helps companies find and eliminate errors in postage administration through using iSort^TM technology to provide better control of your postal and print & fulfilment operators, less administrative work for you and much easier budgeting for future purchasing of postage

We'll sort it out!

(Postage > £120,000 p.a.):
	UK Postal Market
	Postage Analysis
	Postage Optimisation (iSort)
	Postage Administration (C/O)
	UK & International Postage
	Postage Consulting
(Postage < £120,000 p.a.):
	Enterprise Office Mail
	Managed Print & Mail

POSTStream^® Administration services

Our POSTStream Administration services provide a "care of" service of your current Postal operator agreements. We provide monitoring, control and billing through managed mail submissions to one or more Postal operators that you may have agreements with. A pre-requisite for the POSTStream Administration services is that the iSort^TM software platform is installed and operational at your Print operator, either an in-house print & mail centre or at your selected external print & mail partner.

The following functions and process support are provided by our POSTStream^® Administration service:

Creation of mailing run delivery note - iSort^TM optimises and sorts the resultant output file for the lowest postage cost. After the output file is sorted for the respective postal operator, iSort^TM also creates a preliminary mailing run delivery note. This delivery note contains the number of mail pieces, the selected operator service and any other information about the mail pieces, including weight, which the postal operator requires. The preliminary mailing run delivery note is printed out locally by the Print operator for later mail submission to the Postal operator; it is also stored as a PDF file in iSort^TM database for subsequent audit controls; the stored PDF file may also be e-mailed as required.

Mail Submission to the Postal operator - the Print operator implements the print and enveloping mail submission based on the generated mailing run delivery note. Mail submission is typically summarised using the Postal operator customer number assigned to the mailing run customer, in cases where we are using a 21 Grams postal agreement this will be the 21 Grams customer number assigned by the Postal operator. When there are deviations from the preliminary mailing run delivery note as a result of production issues the revised mailing run delivery note will be faxed to you and / or 21 Grams.

Receipt of mailing run invoices - after the mail submission to each of the respective Postal operators used in the mailing runs, invoices are typically issued and posted by the Postal operator approximately 3-7 days after mail delivery.

Invoice verification - invoices from the Postal operators are carefully checked against corresponding mailing run delivery notes, as above, reviewed for data accuracy with mail volumes, weights, service used, etc. If there are any discrepancies detected these are then communicated directly to you, the customer. This enables you as the customer to contact, either directly or via 21 Grams, the party responsible for the discrepancy (Print operator or Postal operators) and where appropriate invoke the relevant contracted Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Invoice Summary - all mailing run Invoices are compiled into a customer summary report, using reporting periods that fit with your company's accounting processes (e.g. weekly, monthly or quarterly).

Cost centre code based invoicing - as an added option, allow 21 Grams to control, monitor and allocate your internal departmental cost centre codes to your mailing run invoices. This will give you a much better understanding of how your postage costs are being used by your company departments on an on-going basis and enables better control through correct budget allocation of postage costs to those departments within your company.