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Focus on Mailing
New products & services
for the mailroom
magazine
Hybrid mail cuts costs
Pitney Bowes has launched a new hybrid
mail service that brings visibility and
reduced costs to the printing and mailing of
customer communications by enterprises
and public sector organisations.
The mailing specialist estimates that
organisations in the UK, France and Germany
are wasting 2 billion and 6 billion euros
respectively through uncoordinated, ad hoc
offce-based print and mail processes.
It claims these costs can be reduced
through a hybrid mail service that aggregates
a customer’s mailings and sends them to
a production print and mail centre with
economies of scale, automatic processing and
detailed management reports.
The Pitney Bowes Hybrid Mail service is not
limited to printed mail, but also supports email,
fax or SMS directly from the desktop, with an
audit trail of all customer communications.
Pitney Bowes states that because there are
no set-up costs, customers can quickly beneft
from the new service, freeing staff from time-
consuming manual processes and speeding up
the despatch of invoices and other revenue-
generating mailings.
www.pbms.co.uk
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US address for UK buyers
A new service that allows UK businesses and consumers to buy from
retailers in the US has been launched by Parcel2Go. For a one-off annual
fee of £19.99, UK residents can acquire a postal address in the US where
online purchases can be sent and aggregated before despatch to the UK.
Parcel2Go founder Fil Adams-Mercer said: “Some 95% of US websites will
not ship outside the US because of customs bureaucracy. I have bought
a warehouse in Miami which UK customers will be able to use as their
‘address’ in the US when buying from these sites. Parcel2Go will then
arrange delivery on from there.”
www.parcel2go.com
Totalpost doubles
franking cartridge
recycling business
Mailroom specialist Totalpost Services
has doubled the capacity of its cartridge
reflling factory in Alston, Cumbria and
created three new jobs as part of a
£60,000 investment to help meet growing
demand for recycled and reflled franking
cartridges.
Totalpost is already one of the UK’s
leading suppliers of reflled franking machine
cartridges, with a10% share of the European
franker ink cartridge market and annual sales
of more than 250,000 units globally.
Operating from centres inWarrington,
Swindon and Cumbria, Totalpost supplies
and maintains franking machines, postal
scales, shredders, letter openers and inserters;
and provides related services including mail
sorting and opening, fulflment, returned mail
management and disaster recovery.
www.totalpost.com
Laser eye wins
innovation award
Neopost has been awarded the 2011World
Mail Award for Technology for its EC-500 mail
counting system. Developed by Neopost’s
Valipost subsidiary for France’s La Poste, the
EC-500 makes it easier for sorting centres to
tally the contents of mixed mail trays with
accompanying documentation. The EC-500
uses a laser ‘eye’ to count mailpieces as a tray
passes beneath, which, in combination with
barcode readers and a weighing scale, makes
it possible to check a tray’s contents without
having to remove envelopes.
www.neopost.co.uk
Vet school tracks
deliveries with neoTrak
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC)
mailroom has enhanced the service it
provides to 1,200 undergraduate students,
500 postgraduates, 130 academic staff
and 500 support staff by implementing
Neopost’s neoTrak solution to track
important packages and documents from
drop-off by the carrier to collection by the
intended recipient.
When a package is delivered, RVC scans the
carrier’s barcode, logs the item on the neoTrak
system and notifes the addressee by email that
they have an item waiting.When collecting an
item, the recipient signs for it on a signature
capture device so that neoTrak can provide a
complete audit trail and searches for any item.
If preferred, neoTrak can also display the
location of the recipient on a foorplan for quick
and easy delivery by mailroom staff.
www.neopost.co.uk/neotrak
Self mailing made easy
The Dynafold Tabbler is a quick and easy way
to close folded self-mailers and brochures.
The semi-automatic tabbing machine
places a strip of tape on the open edge of
a folded self-mailer, giving businesses with
small and medium-sized mailings a time-
saving alternative to manual tabbing and
a cost-effective alternative to expensive
automated tabbing machines. Similar in
size and operation to a hand-fed electric
stapler, Tabbler is loaded with Tabbler Tape
which allows self-mailers to be opened
without tearing the paper. It is available from
Murodigital in the UK.
www.muro.co.uk
Letters at internet speed
Businesses that wish to retain the qualities of
physical mail, without the delays and high cost
of international postage are being targeted with
a new hybrid mail solution called Docsaway.
One of a growing number of services that bring
the speed of the internet to hard copy mailings,
Docsaway routes a PDF (of up to 40 pages)
to any of 29 print locations around the world
where it can be output in colour or black and
white and sent to customers/prospects at local
rates, with volume discounts where appropriate.
www.docsaway.com