Wholesale Mailsort Software Testing
Submission of Test Results
Once you have Mailsorted or Walksorted the Test Address List, you should submit the resulting (National / Zonal) Computer Planning Report, Line Listing and the sorted Test Address List to the Royal Mail Wholesale Department.
When submitting reports, please provide adequate contact information, indicate which Mailing Scheme you have used (e.g. Access Mailsort 1400, Access Mailsort 700 etc. - see: Sorting the Test Address List).
Please send your electronic format reports by email to: royalmailwholesale@caci.co.uk. Your electronic format reports should be attached as plain text (ASCII) Comma Delimited files.
The Comma Delimited Format require all trailing spaces are removed from fields which are then enclosed in quotation marks and separated by commas; records should be terminated by Carriage Return (ASCII: 13) and Line Feed (ASCII: 10) characters.
Also, please do not include any descriptive records e.g. field/file headers. The validation process will attempt to test them as a valid record.
For more details of the expected record structures for the National Computer Planning Report, Line Listing and the sorted Test Address List, please click here.
For more details of the expected record structures for the Zonal Computer Planning Report, Line Listing and the sorted Test Address List, please click here.
Once we have received your (National / Zonal) Computer Planning Report, Line Listing and sorted Test Address List we will compare these reports with our (National / Zonal) Reference Solutions. We will then send you our report of any differences we find. Naturally we are not able to supply you with the information contained in our (National / Zonal) Reference Solutions as this would undermine the testing process, but we are able to give pointers to assist you in diagnosing potential problems with your software. If possible we will draw your attention to specific selections which contain errors.