LONDON; Jan. 31, 2017 – Billions of dollars in venture-capital funding have poured into the post and parcel industry in the last two years, driven by the continued popularity of e-commerce and... View More
The reasons for unsatisfactory throughput numbers are as varied as the document operations experiencing them. Every shop is different and so are the remedies, but they aren’t always easy to... View More
In my last column, I talked about how to effectively deal with end of year shipping demands. Office shippers may not have huge holiday sending output, but the massive volume carriers face impact... View More
Reminder Notice for Industry Members: The 2017 Price Change for Market Dominant, Competitive Products, and Special Services will take effect this weekend, on Sunday, January 22, 2017.&n... View More
What a year 2016 was for the mail industry! The ever-growing increase of digital communications (and its impact on physical mail), the adoption of more and more shipping duties among mailers, compliance... View More
The time is now for mail tracking and reporting. The USPS wants to shake its long-standing image as a “black hole” where mail gets lost and cannot be seen until it shows up in the delivery... View More
CINCINNATI, OH (1/13/2017) – With virtually every industry moving further into the digital landscape, printing technology continues to innovate and reinvent itself with a forward-looking focus... View More
Boston, January 11, 2017 – Kinvey, the leading enterprise Backend as a Service company, today announced that its customer, Bell and Howell, was named a winner in TechTarget’s Modern Mobility
Postal rates are supposed to be tied to the Consumer Price Index (CPI), which today is running at one to two percent. Although the overall increase may be in this range, we found that certain ra... View More
Nearly all organizations create informational content. Content marketing experts define informational content as material that has value on its own. No one has to buy a product or sign up for an... View More
Durham, N.C., Jan. 3, 2017 – Bell and Howell announced today it is acquiring the assets of Sensible Technologies, LLC of Livonia, Michigan. The deal closed on January 1, 2017. Terms of the tra... View More
PC Postage is one of the fastest growth segments in the mailing industry and is something every type of organization may want to consider to handle at least some or all of their volumes. With ad... View More
In January 2017, Standard Mail® will undergo a name change and be rebranded as USPS Marketing Mail™. It is expected that this name change will better communicate to mailers how this mail class... View More
Do you want both you and your team to rise to new levels of achievement and success? Embracing goal setting may be the tool you need. Goal setting is the process of developing outcomes (goals) t... View More
In a previous article, we discussed the importance of building a business case to get approval from senior management for a major expense or transformation. In many situations, managers may be a... View More
A few weeks back, I was signing a couple of hundred letters to Congress urging members to review and enact legislation that would allow the United States Postal Service to improve efficiency, ma... View More
If I had a dime for every small business owner I’ve seen try direct mail, only to quickly throw up their hands and declare that it didn’t work, I’d have a mountain of dimes. I’m... View More
MILFORD, CT, December 7, 2016 – Neopost USA, a provider of hardware and software solutions to mailers and shippers of all sizes, has some good news for postage meter users. New United States P... View More
In October, USPS released the price and structure changes for both market dominant and competitive products. If approved by the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC), the changes will go into effec... View More
At the 2016 National Postal Forum, Harris Diamond, the Chairman and CEO of McCann Worldgroup, shared that Americans spend an average of 25 minutes a day with mail. This “mail moment” is an... View More
