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Analyzing The Impact of Technology on the Global Postal and Logistics Industries
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May 12-16, 2008
Issue 397 Headlines:

Swiss Post Implementing Biggest RFID System in Switzerland

UPS Namesake Wins Kentucky Derby in Race Marred by Tragedy

NetDespatch Moves into International Shipments

Russian Post Expands its Satellite Network
Melissa Acts To Improve Mail Deliverability

SteelCloud Awarded USPS Contract

UPS Changes European Small Package Management

Newgistics Gets New Customer


This Week's Top Story:

Swiss Post Implementing Biggest RFID System in Switzerland

Swisscom and Swiss Post are implementing the biggest RFID project in Switzerland. The project covers Radio Frequency Identification systems from three of the Swiss Post’s main centers plus 50 branches, and involves 750 inputs and outputs and a total of 45,000 roll boxes.

Swiss Post transports over 100 million parcels a year and uses around 45,000 roll boxes – a standard transportation mechanism for delivering and collecting parcels in post offices, distribution centers and business customers.

The post offices says there’s been no suitable way to optimally manage roll boxes and that to reduce the administrative workload associated with identifying the roll boxes as well as to achieve greater transparency of inventory and ultimately cut costs, it opted to introduce the RFID-based management system.

The contract for executing the project was awarded to Swisscom, the telecoms house, last June. By the end of 2007, the parcel center in Härkingen and the Baar and Burgdorf branches had been equipped with RFID systems, and 35,000 trolleys were furnished with RFID tags. Integration into the Swiss Post’s peripheral systems was done via an RFID middleware system.

This software ensures that several thousand company transactions can be transferred daily in real-time and in optimum data quality via Web Services to Swiss Post’s management system.

The management system is proprietary to Swiss Post Solutions Ltd and will manage the technical and application operation of the yellowlog loading equipment applications.
Following intensive testing, Swiss Post and Swisscom were able to successfully conclude the first phase of the project on schedule. By the end of this year, the other main centers, branches and 45,000 PostLogistics roll boxes will be equipped with RFID technology.

The widgetry promises read/write distances from 1cm to 1km and is combined with sensor technologies for temperature, pressure and humidity control, data encryption and protection against interference.

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