DAT-MAIL - Undocumented - Report Information - Summary Report
The Undocumented Piece Audit Report generated from DAT-MAIL (the summary report) will display totals for the following items it identifies in the mailers piece data:
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Mail.dat not imported or IMB’s altered by barcode printing process.
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Unmailed Job. It may have been superseded by a newer revision which had barcodes that were not printed.
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Pieces were spoiled and reprinted but not mailed with new eDocs, or pieces were not actually spoiled.
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Pieces that were in a container that was deleted due to shortage/spoilage processing but were mailed anyway.
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Caused by creating a release but not exporting it or uploading it to PostalOne!.
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Finalized - May qualify for assessment adjustment.
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Caused by failure to finalize.
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Mailer canceled statement that are not resubmitted by mailer. Statement was never paid.
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USPS reversed statement that are not resubmitted by mailer.
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Client, Server, & Postage Calculation Validation Failures.
Below is a description of how each of the report’s numbered line items are identified:
ColumnN |
Description |
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Line 1 |
Count of pieces from jobs not imported (or not registered) in DAT-MAIL |
Line 2 |
Pieces from unmailed jobs, from containers with ‘Not Closed’ or ‘P – Prelim.Stmt’ statuses |
Line 3 |
Spoiled pieces |
Line 4 |
Pieces from deleted containers (containers associated with these pieces do not exist) |
Line 5 |
Pieces from containers with ‘R’ – ‘Ready To Pay’ status |
Line 6 |
Pieces from containers with ‘X – Paid’ status, ‘Finalized’ by PostalOne! |
Line 7 |
Pieces from containers with ‘X – Paid’ status, which are finalized with PostalOne! errors. Often caused by putting a future date in the CSM Postage Payment Mailing Date field and the mail arrived at the induction point before that date. |
Line 8 |
Pieces from containers with ‘C – Cancel’ status (statements cancelled and never paid) |
Line 9 |
Pieces from containers with ‘X – Paid’ status, ‘Reversed’ by PostalOne! |
Line 10 |
Pieces from PostalOne! releases that have been Rejected or have Client or Server Validation errors. |
The report will also include the date it was run, the file the results were summarized from (data path and file name), along with the total records processed.

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