Whatever Happened to Informed Visibility?
October 31, 2016   Karen Bartram

Remember Informed Visibility?  It was one of the stars of the show at the National Postal Forum in March of this year.  Wasn’t it supposed to roll out in the summer? Well, yeah it was, and no, it hasn’t yet.  But just because it’s been less, umm, visible lately, it is still moving forward – just a little slower than originally planned. Just as a quick refresher, Informed Visibility is the Postal Service’s new mail-tracking platform (not to be confused with Informed Delivery, which is a whole other thing.)  Informed Visibility will provide mail piece scans, tray scans, pallet scans, bundle scans, and a bunch of calculated events based on all of those scans.  It’s a complicated business, and the Postal Service is, wisely, making sure they have it right before they roll it out. Informed Visibility is currently being run as a pilot program with a limited pool of pilot participants.  They have encountered a lot of challenges, which is kind of the point of a pilot.   As they get issues ironed out, they will take a look at a national rollout.  No firm dates have been announced, but we expect the first release to come out sometime in December or January. SnailWorks customers don’t have to do a thing.  The data we receive through Intelligent Mail Tracing will roll right onto the IV platform when it rolls out.  Barcodes will remain the same, and if we are receiving tracking data for your MID, we will continue to do so. So take heart, mailing world!  Informed Visibility is still on track.  We’ll keep you up to the minute as the roll out approaches.

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