Spectos Lettershop: In-house production of test items for transit time measurements
Test items are an important instrument for measuring transit times and checking the delivery quality of mail and any postal item. The Spectos Lettershop is set up to produce test mailings for transit time measurements. Benefit from an easy and convenient provision of your test consignments with our in-house lettershop.
Your advantages by using the Spectos Lettershop
- Complete transit time measurement from one service provider: production, implementation and evaluation of measurement results
- Large portfolio of possible test shipments: Letters, parcels, merchandise shipments
- No need of further cooperation partners for the production of test consignments
- In-depth control of test consignments to ensure valid data acquisition
- Responsible handling of personal data
- High reliability of measurement results
- Optional: Fulfillment Services (packing and shipping of merchandise shipments)
Maximum comfort and valid measurement results with the Spectos Lettershop
Whether test letter, test parcel, or test merchandise shipment – all mailings are physically prefabricated by our in-house Spectos Lettershop. We handle all preparatory work for your transit time measurement: We print, envelope and bundle your test consignments per feeder and day of dispatch. In order to ensure that real mail and test items cannot be distinguished, name and address of the corporate customer are printed as sender on the test item. Envelopes from senders with their corporate identity are used for test letters if required.
To rule out measurement errors, all test items are thoroughly checked for correctness of the data before dispatch. The Spectos Lettershop delivers then the ready-to-send test items to the respective customers for feed-in. From this moment on, your transit time measurement begins. The test items cannot be distinguished from real mail items after induction into the mail stream. The test consignments are transported in the same way as the real consignments.
Transit time measurements make it possible to quality of delivery and service and derive quality enhancing measures. Results of transit time measurements of letters can also be used as verification of compliance with applicable European standards for letter transit times according to EN 13850 and EN 14534.
Service portfolio of Spectos Lettershop
- Production of test consignments: letters, parcels, merchandise and goods
- Compilation of bundles and test packages
- Processing and induction of test consignments
- Production control: Check of created test consignments in the letter shop
- Sorting in our own sorting center or by the freight forwarder
- Transport to the partners in the delivery network
- Delivery to addressed and unaddressed recipients
- Daily notification of shipper about delivered test packages
- Tracking of dispatch of test items by feeders through Spectos Service Center
- Fulfillment services: Packing and shipping of goods and merchandise