According to experts, RTI assets have an annual shrink rate of up to 25 percent. The U.S. Postal Service estimates it loses about 20 percent of its plastic pallet inventory every year – at a cost of nearly $23 each. In spring 2009, the USPS was forced to make a $30 million emergency purchase just to make certain it had enough inventory to do its job. A survey of the automotive industry found that 14 percent of annual container budgets are spent just to replace missing RTIs, at a cost of up to $1.4 billion annually. This white paper details how RFID technology can greatly decrease the number of lost RTIs.