History

AVI’s deep history in postal automation dates more than twenty years. Formerly the Postal Automation division of Firstlogic, Inc., we entered the postal market in 1984, providing the USPS with enhanced software for its letter mail systems.

AVI’s experience in the postal automation marketplace has flourished through strong partnering efforts and quality software solutions. We have supplied the US Postal Service address assignment software since 1984 and our Video Coding System since 2002, to support letter mail, flats mail and parcel mail programs.

AVI entered the international postal authority market in 1997, supplying our address assignment, Video Coding System and directory generation software for the benefit of Australia Post. Since that time, our portfolio of services and solutions has been used throughout the world -- supplying solutions to UK’s Royal Mail, Sweden’s GLP, Saudi Arabia, and Deutsche Post.

In addition to the postal authority market, AVI also has extensive ties to the US commercial mailing market. Beginning with our earliest forays into the US commercial marketplace in 1994, where we provided address assignment, Video Coding Systems, and remote mail piece image processing services, AVI has grown to become the most-integrated machine-print address assignment software in the industry.

We integrate our software with several OCR packages, deploying on a variety of Multi-Line Optical Character Recognition (MLOCR) systems. This Open Systems approach and flexibility is unmatched by our competition, leading to our software being the leading address assignment solution available in the US marketplace for MLOCR systems.

AVI’s most recent software for Commercial MLOCR systems in the US, Postal Reporter provides additional sortation schemes and capabilities that have never before been available to MLOCR mail processors. It also provides full reporting and tracking in line with USPS Domestic Mail Manual requirements and the USPS Seamless Acceptance program.