Deer Smearer
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Packages with barcodes are tracked from acceptance until delivery.
SPM is supposed to track letters and flats similarly. A mail piece is selected. Sometimes by carriers from blue boxes, sometimes randomly from bulk mailer drop offs.
Those selected mail pieces are followed to the delivery unit. When the carrier reaches it's destination a prompt to scan that item is sent. Then the time from acceptance to delivery is obtained.
Nobody is supposed to know in advance that an item is being tracked. It's so that item cannot be pulled from curtailed mail to expedite it's delivery.
SPM is supposed to track letters and flats similarly. A mail piece is selected. Sometimes by carriers from blue boxes, sometimes randomly from bulk mailer drop offs.
Those selected mail pieces are followed to the delivery unit. When the carrier reaches it's destination a prompt to scan that item is sent. Then the time from acceptance to delivery is obtained.
Nobody is supposed to know in advance that an item is being tracked. It's so that item cannot be pulled from curtailed mail to expedite it's delivery.