Mail

The Shrinking Post Office

What shape is the Postal Service in? It’s hurting, reports The Week. With more and more personal and business communication being conducted via e-mail and social-networking sites, mail volume peaked at 213 billion pieces in 2006 and has been declining ever since. The recession has only made a difficult situation worse. Mail volume declined by

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Digital Snail Mail

BBC: The internet has revolutionized the speed at which people communicate. Now the Swiss postal service is hoping to do the same for regular snail mail. The company offers a service called Swiss Post Box to customers wanting to receive their physical letters over the internet. More from the Swiss Post Box website: We first

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Postal Methods

PostalMethods is a convenient method for small businesses to automate the sending of postal mail directly from the computer. You create a document and upload it. They print it, address and mail it. All for one flat rate. Their system also interacts directly with programs like Quickbooks and Simply Accounting.

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Socks-By-Mail Hits The U.S.

AppScout: Forget all that business about Twitter, BlackBerry apps, and the Palm Pre. The real news is that BlackSocks.com, which has sold over a million socks through the mail in Europe, has come to the U.S. For the not-too-bad price of $89 annually, you can get three pairs of men’s calf-length socks mailed to you

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Video: Better Direct Mail

If you’ve ever thought about spending money on direct mail marketing, you’ve probably wondered why some direct mail gets tossed immediately into the garbage. Pitney Bowes has an informative and entertaining video that shows why some mail gets opened, while others don’t.

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Cheap: Postage Meter

Yesterday we talked about how the USPS is hurting from the decrease in mail volume. Companies that sell add-on services for the postal system must be hurting too. Pitney Bowes is offering their Personal Post postage meter for only $15 per month. This is at least half what it used to rent for last year

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