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Royal Mail Uses Wiliot’s Digital Tags to Boost Efficiency and Cut Carbon

The company has tagged its 850,000 wheeled containers with Wiliot’s tiny computers that look like stickers, which allow them to transmit live data.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Royal Mail has partnered with tech innovator Wiliot to transform the way it tracks items traveling through its network, using breakthrough digital tagging to provide unprecedented visibility. Royal Mail is about to complete tagging its 850,000 containers, called Yorks, which are used to transport customers’ parcels and letters around the country, and has plans to use the digital tags on individual parcels in future. Wiliot’s sticker-like tags house tiny computers that are automatically det...

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