Defining Job Parameters - Mailer/Mailing Identification & Mailing Properties

Job parameters define how a 1-PASS Prep (1PP) job will be processed. In this section, the focus will be identifying the mailer and defining the characteristics of the mail. The Field Name element, for example <Job Name> defines the field to be populated in order to describe and process the job. We will discuss the File Name element, later in defining input files.

See Sample Parameter XML File, where there is a complete example of a parameter XML file.

Mailer Information/Date of Mailing

Job_ID is a 10 character length field:

<Job_ID>test1wIMB</Job_ID>

Job_Name, Mailer_Name and Mailer_City are 30 character length fields:

<Job_Name>test_1_with_IMB</Job_Name>
<Mailer_Name>Mailer</Mailer_Name>
<Mailer_City>Cambridge</Mailer_City>

Remaining fields in this section:

<Mailer_State>MA</Mailer_State>
<Origin_Zip>02139</Origin_Zip>
<Origin_Zip4>3781</Origin_Zip4>
<Date_of_Mailing>2021-04-08</Date_of_Mailing>

Mailing Properties

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Processing_Option should always be set to 'Commingle'

<Processing_Option>Commingle</Processing_Option

Set to either 1 (First Class) or 3 (Marketing Mail:

<Mail_Class>1</Mail_Class>

Set to one of the following processing categories as LT (Letters), CD (cards) or FL (flats):

<Processing_Category>LT</Processing_Category>

Set Full Service to either ‘true’ or ‘false’. This will be used by 1PP to determine the STID when doing IMB numbering. Also, used in determining the STID is the address correction option and whether IV_MTR is selected. However, you can choose to override STIDs.

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Set Full Service to either ‘true’ or ‘false’:

<Full_Service>true</Full_Service>

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