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What is Access 70?
Access 70 is a Royal Mail Wholesale service that requires fewer selections than other Access sortation services and is aligned to new sorting processes within Royal Mail. Access 70 will initially require customers to pre-sort mail to 85 selections. Over the next few years the number of selections is planned to reduce to approximately 70. Access 70 is being introduced as an addition to existing Access services. For Access 70 postings, mailing items must:
• be of letter format only
• meet either the OCR or CBC specification
• be presented in trays only.
What are the customer benefits?
Some of the available benefits include:
• operational efficiencies from presenting in trays – you do not need to bundle or bag
• improved mail hygiene through the use of trays, which also speeds up operational processes
• less preparation work as fewer selections means less work
• increased tray fill as a result of fewer selections.
Overall, we anticipate the benefits to our customers to be fewer under-volume trays, reduced segregation, simpler data segregation, and increased tray fill with faster production.
How does Access 70 OCR and CBC differ from Access 120 OCR
and CBC?
Access 70 has fewer selections than Access 120 (85 selections to begin with versus the current 115) and can only be presented in trays.
What is the price?
Prices are available on our website.
Will I have to sign a separate agreement to use the service?
No. Access 70 services will be added to all existing agreements as an additional service. All customers that have OCR and CBC accreditation can use the new service.
Are there any changes to Access 120, 700 or 1400 specifications?
There are no changes being made to these Access service specifications, although there are changes to their Standard Selection Codes (SSCs) in the new Access Database 2010.
How many digits will the Access 70 Standard Selection Code (SSC) have?
Access 70 will use the first two digits of the Access Database 2010 SSC code. The other sortation services remain unchanged e.g. Access 1400 has five digit SSCs, Access 700 has four digit SSCs, Access 120 has three digit SSCs.
What are the implications of the two digit SSC?
Customers wishing to use the new Access 70 services must sort using only the first two digits of the appropriate five digit Standard Selection Code (SSC) contained in the ‘MSORTAZ.DAT’ file that is part of the new Access Database 2010. Existing software either developed by our customers in-house or from third party software suppliers will need the additional tier added in order for them to select and sort to these new services.
Do customers still need to use the Access Database 2010 even if they are not going to use Access 70?
Yes. There will be small changes to the number of selections to Access 1400, 700 and 120 so all customers must download and use Access Database 2010 from 27th September 2010, regardless of the sortation service used. Mail not sorted to the correct Access Database 2010 may be refused or charged at a higher rate.
What happens if my Access 70 mail is found to be non-compliant?
If we have sampled your mail on any given day and we find mailing items that are non-compliant, in the first instance we will notify you of the error as usual (per the User Guide). Our actions may include the option of having mail returned, or if operationally possible, we may be able to process the mail at a price relevant to the actual sortation or specification level of the mailing items.
Where can I find more information on Access 70?
Full details of the Access 70 service specification will be available in the next version of the Access User Guides. In the meantime, a brief on the key service specifications can be found on the News page of our website or, alternatively, please contact your Access Account Director if you have any further questions.
If the answer to your question is not here then please email us by clicking on the link at the top of the page or visiting the contacts section.
