“More than 12,000 radio frequency identification tags are being used in letters every month to track the delivery of mail by Australia Post,”CNET news reports .”The government business enterprise has replaced manual monitoring of mail delivery with RFID tags.In its annual report released Wednesday, Australia Post said RFID monitoring of mail came into effect in July after being run in parallel with manual monitoring for six months”.
The “test letters”
- October 19th, 2006
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by Jim_Downing
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Comments
@ 08:01
This is a nice application for RFID in that has few of the problems that come up in many applications. I don’t see any privacy issues. This is not on critical path for the key mission of delivering mail. Tag readers can be deployed in key places, such as letter sorting machines, to ensure a good environment for reading. Relatively large tags can be used. Tags can be recovered and reused, lowering cost. The number of reading systems required in manageable.