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Postea Launches QubeVu Pilot Program at USPS

July 28, 2011 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time  - FAIRFAX, Va. - Postea Inc., a technology provider for the postal, mailing and logistics industry, announced that the United States Postal Service has begun a six-month pilot program of its QubeVuTM 3D imaging system at post offices in the greater Washington, DC area. “We’re pleased to be working with the USPS on this project, and look forward to continued collaborations with them.”

QubeVu is one of Postea’s latest groundbreaking technologies. It simultaneously captures a mail item's dimensional and shipment-related data, and automatically presents the information (along with images) to the user. A unique combination of image processing and 3D sensor technologies captures dimensions, barcodes, addresses and other shipment-related data, meeting the need for customs and border protection, revenue protection and compliance without losing productivity.

The USPS expects that the QubeVu system will help to streamline and ease the process for customers who are mailing international packages. Recent security regulations require postal clerks to manually enter all data from a customs form which considerably slows down transaction times. QubeVu’s 3D imaging software, along with industry-standard handwriting recognition software, will be able to extract the information from the customs form automatically. In addition, the USPS will be looking for innovative ways that other data gathered by QubeVu can help to improve revenue protection, security and compliance for a number of other products and services currently offered.

Elmar Toime, Chairman of Postea, commented that “Postal authorities worldwide are capitalizing on the expanding e-commerce business which creates a huge opportunity for the parcels business. And the global marketplace means new cross-border regulations such as the UPU mandate for customs forms data capture. Solutions such as QubeVu that can gather all information about a parcel automatically and precisely are a critical technology for success.”

QubeVu’s system of 3D imaging and intelligent compliance engine brings a new technology solution to all types of organizations in a cost-effective manner. QubeVu can be placed in the front office, to assist with dimensioning, address verification and forms data capture, integrated with the point-of-sale application used by retail clerks or at self-service kiosks to assist customers.

In the back office or at distribution centers, QubeVu provides a cost effective alternative to large, expensive scanning tunnels in low to medium volume applications. It can calculate the volume of mailbags or other irregular shaped items, or used to provide bulk acceptance and validation of items from e-commerce sellers. In addition, the intelligent compliance engine can apply complex business rules including address corrections that require third party notifications and postage due. QubeVu’s small footprint and low cost configurations provide plant floor automation in places where other stations won’t fit.

Mr. Toime concluded, “We’re pleased to be working with the USPS on this project, and look forward to continued collaborations with them.”

QubeVu was developed at Postea’s Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the pilot program is being managed by Postea’s subsidiary, Innovations Group, Inc. based in Fairfax, Virginia.

About Postea Inc.
Postea was founded in 2007 as a technology provider for the postal, mailing and logistics industry. The company has brought together some of the most experienced and influential leaders to help create the next generation of postal technologies, services, support and financing. Postea invests in technologies and companies that enable operators to better compete in the deregulated postal market and its portfolio includes emerging and established companies – all of which are forward-thinking and innovative.

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Postea Inc.
Pam Hoodes, 617-945-9349
pam.hoodes@postea.com