Available Downloads
- Intelligent Mail Q&A
(PDF | 326 Kb). - USPS update on Intelligent Mail® Barcode
(PDF | 29 Kb). - USPS Move Update Standard (PDF | 84 Kb).
White Papers
- Getting Smart About Intelligent Mail®: Prepare yourself for one of the most significant postal changes in years. (PDF | 792 Kb).
- Implementing the Intelligent Mail® Barcode: Make decisions that are right for your business — today and tomorrow. (PDF | 823 Kb).
- Optimizing the Intelligent Mail® Barcode: Turn a postal mandate into a business-enhancing resource. (PDF | 1.25 MB).
Featured Presentation
Intelligent Mail: Overcoming Implementation Challenges
Find out how to overcome implementation challenges of Intelligent Mail, keeping costs and timescales down, while ensuring maximum postal discounts for your organization.
Available Downloads
- USPS update on Intelligent Mail® Barcode
(PDF | 29 Kb). - USPS Move Update Standard (PDF | 84 Kb).
Featured White Paper
Getting Smart About Intelligent Mail®
Provides insight into the 2009 USPS® Intelligent Mail Barcode requirements and how you can leverage and optimize the new intelligence across your mailstream.
Intelligent Mail® Barcode Solutions
Starting May 2009, the USPS® plans to replace the POSTNET™ and PLANET® barcodes, requiring every piece of mail be uniquely identified by an Intelligent Mail® Barcode in order to receive a postal discount.

This new “intelligence” technology affords mailers opportunities to access USPS tracking and address change services, improve delivery of mail, increase operational efficiencies, and provide greater visibility into the mailstream.
Meeting this mandate is essential to the tens of millions of savings in postal discounts. Understanding the requirement, its advantages and implications is equally important to the long-term growth of your business.
New Services and Improved Communications
The Intelligent Mail Barcode, a multi-service barcode, offers mailers new services and improved communications, including:
- Delivery point information
- Tracking via USPS Confirm® service
- Move/Undeliverable-as-Addressed (UAA) information via the Address Change Service (ACS™)
Intelligent Mail Barcode Benefits
The Intelligent Mail Barcode provides several advantages to mailers, including:
Intelligent Mail Barcode Operational Assessment
The Group 1 Software Intelligent Mail Barcode Assessment provides expert advice to accelerate the Intelligent Mail Barcode in your organization. Our mailing efficiency experts can identify your most critical Intelligent Mail Barcode integration requirements and make next-step recommendations to deploy the Intelligent Mail Barcode in your operations.
Sign Up For Your Intelligent Mail Barcode Assessment Now
To start preparing for the Intelligent Mail Barcode mandate, contact us today or call 888-413-6763.