When prepared correctly, your mail can be sent out at a discounted rate without adding additional delivery time. The process involves an automated sorting process, and gives us a great opportunity to save money for our customers.

The Central Mail Facilities now has the capability of discounting handwritten letters and flats, however when these items are handwritten, the pre-sort process becomes less automated and slows the delivery of these items by one day. Because the mail cannot be automatically machine coded (sorted according to ZIP code), these items must be coded by hand. For this reason, we recommend that whenever possible our customers machine generate (computer, typewriter, label maker) all their addresses.

To take advantage of these postage discounts, our mail is sent to the State of Rhode Island’s barcode vendor, D3Logic. This vendor sprays a barcode onto the envelopes so that they are pre-sorted according to ZIP code. Summarily, this process involves a machine called a Multiple Line Optical Character Reader (MLOCR or OCR) that reads the address to determine the destination, and sprays a barcode accordingly. Summary of contract.