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Oct. 2 2024
While attending the National Postal Forum 2024 in Indianapolis, I had the opportunity to meet many new people across the mailing industry. Over the course of the four-day conference, I was app... View More
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Aug. 20 2024
Adhering to mailing regulations is more than just a legal obligation; it is essential for maintaining a company's integrity and reputation. As businesses increasingly turn to direct mail stra... View More
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June 6 2024
“The auditors are here!” Your blood runs cold, like seeing red and blue flashing lights in the rearview mirror. You needn’t worry. An external audit doesn’t have to incite fear... View More
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May 1 2024
“We’ve been breached.” These are three words no executive wants to hear from their IT staff. Any mailing or data processing company that deals with sensitive client data likely generates
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Oct. 4 2023
There is an adage that states all press is good press, but when it comes to data security, nothing could be further from the truth. For organizations that outsource their print and mail commun... View More
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Sept. 14 2021
Most of us likely remember the well-publicized Ford tagline, “Quality is Job One!” (which Ford used in advertising for nearly 20 years, and their latest CEO recently brought back for inter
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Aug. 30 2021
I have been a member on many merger and acquisition teams where my primary responsibility was to audit a company’s security practices and give my assessment of the security risk identified i... View More
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May 10 2021
These six print-to-mail software options can help you make your mail operation run much more smoothly. This special sponsored section from our Jan/Feb, 2021 issue showcases some of the available... View More
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May 3 2021
Like many around the globe, the print production and digital delivery industries continue to feel the winds of change in 2021. For those running printing environments — also called print sho... View More
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May 3 2021
I am going to start out with a blanket statement based on years of customer research: 99% of medium to large organizations have limited to no visibility to their mail spends across the enterpr... View More
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April 11 2021
Checklists work. That’s why pilots use checklists. That’s why doctors use checklists. That’s why successful people use checklists. Several years ago, I wrote an article for Mailing... View More
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April 5 2021
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
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July 10 2020
Mistakes have always been part of the game when high volumes of paper are imaged, moved, folded, and inserted. Back in my days in the service bureau industry, we had unintelligent inserters an... View More
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April 9 2020
Your company updates all their addresses through Coding Accuracy Support System (CASS) and NCOALink software on a monthly basis. The presort operation applies Full-Service Intelligent Mail bar... View More
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March 27 2020
Everyone dreads a data breach. We constantly hear about companies who have fallen victim to ransomware, phishing, and data theft. No one is immune, not even companies who print and mail docume... View More
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Feb. 19 2020
The mail center is at the tail end of a long process that starts with a communication strategy and ends with a pile of print to be finished and mailed. By the time mail center managers see the... View More
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Dec. 20 2019
The headline in USA Today blared, “2019 on track to be worst year ever for data breaches.” There were more than 3,800 breaches reported in the first half of the year, a 52% increase from... View More
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Sept. 10 2019
Over the last couple of years, analysts and vendors have written much about workflow systems. Software vendors refer to these solutions as dashboards or integration platforms. This is software... View More
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May 28 2019
When it comes to addressing, I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that for First-Class Mail, the average amount of Undeliverable-as-Addressed (UAA) mail is 3.7%. Even worse is the fa... View More
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April 25 2019
Certified Mail, a service that provides a mailer with a receipt and verification that an item was delivered or that a delivery attempt was made, was launched by the Postal Service in 1955. Today... View More

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