Setup - Pallet Tracking/Intelligent Mail

This tab will look familiar to you, if you already set the required options in Program Setup: Required.

To access the Setup screen, from DAT-MAIL main menu go to File > Program Settings > Program Setup, then click on the Pallet Tracking/Intelligent Mail tab.

Enable Pallet Tracking: This feature automatically activates Generate Unique ID's for Pallets when selected. All uniquely numbered Pallets will be added to our pallet tracking database. For users interfacing with LSC Logistics, using the legacy DIME system, this setting must be selected. For users of Multi-Carrier Trailer Manifesting (MCTM), it is needed for the pallets to be displayed in the MCTM system.

For mailers participating in Intelligent Mail Container Labeling:

Participate in Intelligent Mail barcodes: By selecting this option, it insures that your container labels have the IM barcodes (IMBs). Also, it allows DAT-MAIL to either assign unique USPS container and handling unit IMBs or log the IMBs already set in presort. If the presort is not assigning unique container barcodes, by logging the IMBs it warns you when there are duplicate container barcodes.

Overwrite Pallet Label 24 Char barcodes and/or Overwrite Tray/Sack Label 24 Char barcodes: Choose one or both options if you want the program to generate unique pallet and/or handling unit IMBs. To insure you do not duplicate barcodes with a Presort software, request another MID to use exclusively in DM.

Even if you do not overwrite the IMBs from presort, if you create siblings having a unique MID for DM is important to avoid duplicates.

IMB Numbering: This is to determine when DAT-MAIL will create and/or register container IMBs.

  • Assign or Log at Import: Choose this option if you would like to create or log your unique IMBs when your files are imported.

  • Assign or Log at Tag Printing: Choose this option if you would like to create or log your unique IMBs when printing Tags/Pallet placards.

Register IM Piece Barcodes: Select this option if you would like the program to write your unique IM Piece Barcodes to our MS SQL database. When the IM piece barcodes are in the MS SQL database, we can query that table when you want to apply spoilage/shortages. Also, this table is used to determine whether you have imported a Mail.dat with duplicate barcodes and is utilized when determining if pieces the USPS shows as undocumented were not really undocumented.

Add Label data to IM database: Select this option if you would like the program to add your label data to the IM database.

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