Pitney Bowes hybrid mail service drives immediate savings on office-generated print and mail


Watford, UK, June 12th 2011: Pitney Bowes has launched a new hybrid mail service aimed at driving unnecessary spend and inefficiency from everyday, office-generated communications.

The Pitney Bowes Hybrid Mail service is targeted towards enterprises, not-for-profit organisations and the public sector – all of which struggle to identify and contain costs associated with the print and despatch of communications generated in the office.

Pitney Bowes estimates that uncoordinated, ad-hoc office-based print and mail processes are creating an unnecessary private sector spend of €6bn across UK, France and Germany – and €2bn across the public sector in these countries*. The Hybrid Mail service brings immediate control and cost-efficiency to the operation.
 

The service lets people generate communications to customers, prospects, suppliers, partners and colleagues by mail, email, fax or SMS directly from their desktop.

Users simply create documents on an office PC and, with a few mouse-clicks, submit jobs for printing, inserting and despatch. Rather than being printed locally on desktop printers and manually processed, each print and mail job is transmitted to a purpose-built production facility. By aggregating all desktop mail to a centralised production facility, users gain economy-of-scale, greater quality control, and the ability to track and manage every customer communication.

By choosing to partner with Pitney Bowes, businesses benefit from the experience and pedigree that comes from 90 years of communications management expertise.  Pitney Bowes’ technology independence and market knowledge gives customers access to the very latest production print technology, resulting in economies of scale, best quality communications and postal market discounts.

The advantages of the Pitney Bowes Hybrid Mail approach are numerous. What’s more, with no set-up costs, improvements and savings can begin straight away.

The Pitney Bowes Hybrid Mail service can:

• Dramatically drive down  the high cost of office printing, consumables and stationery
• Increase response times for time dependent communications such as invoices, demands, notices  – resulting in faster payments and improved cash flow
• Improve staff productivity – letting people focus on core tasks rather than producing communications from the desktop
• Provide an effortless route to multi-channel communications without the need for upfront investment or an overhaul of technology processes
• Improve corporate branding consistency and quality
• Reduce the cost of postage through pre-sorting aggregated mail volumes   
• Reduce paper wastage and carbon footprint for office-generated mail
• Generate an audit trail that tracks what was sent, when, where and to whom
• Generate management information reports for monitoring of output by colleague/department/brand – ideal for budget management

Richard Thompson, VP Sales and Marketing, Pitney Bowes, comments: “Today’s organisations – whether public, private or not-for-profit – are tasked with doing more for less and reducing avoidable spend.  Our Hybrid Mail service enables businesses to move quickly to address the basic inefficiencies that drive the cost of print and despatch of office-generated mail sky high. 


“Hybrid Mail brings control, automation and transparency to the production of office mail, not only cutting costs and eliminating wasted spend but also freeing staff to focus on strategic goals. 


“Businesses face the dual challenge of saving money whilst also addressing customer demands for more efficient and flexible service.  Pitney Bowes Hybrid Mail represents a quick win.”