U.S. Postal Service, Headquarters Purchasing, Room 4541, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., Washington, DC 20260-6230

70 -- SHIPPING/MAILING SOFTWARE DUE 031497 POC Terry Downer, Purchasing Specialist, 202 268-4895 The date is extended until March 14, 1997 for sending in your information as required for the sources sought below: The US Postal Service is seeking sources for the purpose of offering small office/home office businesses a free easy-to-use, Windows-based on-line software to help businesses automate their shipping and mailing processes. The application must be client/server technology driven. The client software should include capability to select different service offerings like Express Mail and Priority Mail, collect information from the user regarding sender address, recipient address, weight and dimensions, delivery time, chosen payment method, print plain-paper shipping labels (airbills), and create accounting reports. The shipping label should have necessary information for the package to be handled by the USPS such as recipient address, relevant routing codes and USPS-approved barcodes containing tracking number. The server software must be able to validate users, verify shipping rates and service levels, authorize payment process through either credit card or electronic systems developed by US Postal Service and track packages. Those sources meeting the preceding requirements, may send your operational client software in a disk (demo) and technical specifications for server system architecture to USPS, Headquarters, Terry Downer, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, W, SW, Room 4541, Washington, DC 20260-6238 by March 14, 1997. (0045)

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