Of all the ways our industry has evolved, one of the more challenging changes is the prevalence of the request for proposal, or RFP. While providing pricing to clients has been around just ab... View More
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ‘DELIVERING FOR AMERICA’ PLAN Preserves affordable, six-day mail and expands seven-day package delivery Generates $24 billion in net revenue in part from enhanced packag
Over the past few months, and especially over the recent holiday season, there were many occasions on which a postal customer – a representative of a commercial mailer, a mailer’s client
Self-development expert Brian Tracy suggests, “Your greatest resource is your time.” This same concept was articulated by another respected expert, Jim Rohn, who wrote, “Time is more... View More
For the Postal Service, it was one that will not be remembered fondly. The pandemic impacted USPS employees, severely suppressed the mailing activity of many businesses, and drove an unforesee... View More
We’ve just wrapped up a year during which overall printing industry revenues have dropped significantly (at least 10%; likely much more). Concurrently, printing industry employment has dropp... View More
Despite being deemed an “essential business,” USPS mail volume was hit hard early in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In early February 2020, the United States began to hear about a new
Delays in mail delivery and no visibility into the status of those mail pieces caused an increased number of customer inquiries and complaints in the months before and even now after the holid... View More
In many corporate mail centers, the handling of inbound mail is still a mostly manual operation. Clerks look at packages, flats, letters, and magazines and sort them down to courier routes. Su... View More
The last six months have brought about changes to businesses, families and individuals in ways we never could have imagined. The current business climate has been concerning for many. In a rec... View More
Direct marketers face a new challenge with many of their business targets working at home. Thanks to the coronavirus, in the office or on the couch are very nearly the same place, at least in... View More
Despite the widespread use of email, SMS text, and other electronic communications, printed direct mail remains in demand for both marketing and transactional communications. Although printed... View More
"If I'm not in the document business," you might say, "How do you explain the pallets full of paper and envelopes sitting all over my shop?" OK, that’s a reasonable question. W... View More
I always look forward to analyzing the results of our annual survey, whether it’s part one (which appears in our September/October issue) or part two, here in the November/December issue. It�... View More
We all know the importance of keeping our teams physically safe – including safety from bodily harm and harm from health threats like COVID-19. It is also important for our success to keep our teams
Usually, after the busy fall mailing season and the holiday rush, things return to normal for the Postal Service and its commercial mailing customers. As everyone knows, however, the cur... View More
There is a mindset about the postal address that is changing. The outdated thinking perceives an address as being only aligned with mail, only valuable for qualifying for post... View More
Companies are focusing on customer experience and the customer journey, and more of them are working on creating a single customer view, but their efforts don't always include mailed communic... View More
For the past 21 years, I have been creating comparison charts for our clients that go over the changes in rates to show how it will affect budgets. The reason that I do this is that when the U... View More
The coronavirus has made a mess of the employment landscape, but companies in the print and mail industry can’t afford to sit around and wait for things to get back to normal. No one knows h... View More
