According to The Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989, Australia Post is required to meet a standard of 94 percent on-time delivery of items.
To meet such target, the Post for the first time undertook an RFID trial using tags on the letters. The trial continued for six months and ended in July this year.
Satisfied with the RIFD trial, the government enterprise has replaced the manual monitoring of mail delivery to RFID system. Now, the Post embeds nearly 12,000 tags in letters every month to monitor the delivery of mail.
The government enterprise claims the use of RFID tags has enabled them to trace out the latent problems within their delivery network.
For effective delivery system, the public enterprise has also deployed new hardware, software and monitoring equipment in its 9 metropolitan letter-processing facilities, 21 country mail centers and 23 delivery centers and 16 mobile units.
