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New postal standards spark reassessments
Postal delivery standards, long recognized as a key variable in any corporation's collection equation, are poised to undergo dramatic changes. Treasury managers would be ill-advised, however, to rush to redesign their collection systems. Although there's little doubt delivery standards will change, precise details remain unclear.
What's more, other service changes, already in the works within the U.S. Postal Service, could ameliorate many of the planned changes in delivery standards. Chief among those changes is the phase-in of Accelerated Reply Mail, which USPS has announced it will begin to roll out next month in about 200 cities where post offices are outfitted with automated sorting equipment.
"ARM is the major new mousetrap in consumer remittance processing," observes Richard Poje of Treasury Strategies Inc., Chicago. "In the worst case, it will let companies recover half the float lost on consumer remittances" as a result of slower postal delivery standards, he says, adding that float loss recoveries could be even greater.
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