The global market for radio frequency identification (RFID) systems, including tags, in postal & courier sector will be worth USD 2.5 billion by 2018, with a potential to be much bigger in case current efforts to tag individual items gain widespread acceptance. In due course, more than one trillion postal items will be tagged every year, making this the world's second largest application of RFID after the retail supply chain. The new research report "RFID for Postal and Courier Services 2011-2021" worked out by IDTechEx has been recently published by Market Publishers Ltd. The study examines the rapid increase in use of RFID in the postal and courier services. It features granular ten-year forecasts along with a full explanation of the technologies, covers more than 40 case studies of RFID in action at postal and courier services in North America, Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. Furthermore, major breakthroughs expected to provide future success are thoroughly discussed. The report mentions a postal RFID system, successfully tested in Korea this year, which completely automates the whole process of mail delivery from accepting the package to classification and dispatching. Also noted is the Swedish Post and their system that detects & records tampering using RFID & other innovations abound, including RFID cards controlling driver access postal vehicles & RFID enabled postal sorting equipment.
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