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What is Mixed Weight
Customers may use the Mixed Weight specification to present items of differing weight bands but of the same format (Large Letters or Parcels) in a single container (currently bag, tray or ALPS) subject to the usual maximum weight limit instead of having to use separate containers for each of the different weight bands of the same format.
Customers create a separate discrete manifest for their Mixed Weight postings that is uploaded to DocketHub and all other non-Mixed Weight postings are uploaded to E*Pro in the usual way.
On the Mixed Weight manifest the customer declares a container of mailing items of the same format by the number of items in each weight band, and for zonal postings this will also be by each zone within each weight band. DocketHub will translate this manifest into a format that can be accepted by E*Pro that breaks the container ID into the separate weight bands relevant to each format and creates separate pseudo/virtual containers for each weight band in order to price the items.
Pricing of each daily posting will be carried out in the same way as now, just bringing together up to three containers into one and as one line on the manifest. Please see the Access User Guide for details on how to present your Mixed Weight postings.
Customers wishing to use this service will need to sign a Mixed Weight Schedule before a start date can be agreed. As always, please talk to us about the relevant lead times for your first posting.
You can also speak to your RMW Account Manager who will be able to provide further details of the Mixed Weight specification.
