New Technology Expands Pitney Bowes’s
Portfolio of Solutions for Intelligent Mail Barcode Application, Savings and
Increased Visibility
STAMFORD,
CT and MT LAUREL, NJ — March 14, 2013 — Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) and GrayHair Software, Inc., a leader
in innovative services for business mailers, announced they are collaborating on
a new suite of solutions for Pitney Bowes’s Presort Services customers. Pitney
Bowes will offer GrayHair Software’s new MailTrak with Commingle® solutions for
those customers seeking alternative options for Intelligent Mail® barcode
(IMb™) application, mail tracking, deeper postal discounts, and greater
visibility to their mailings. This new technology expands Pitney Bowes’s
current portfolio of solutions to help with IMb compliance and mail tracking in
the U.S.
The
MailTrak with Commingle solution will be offered in four variations. The
first-tier is designed for mailers who want to add the IMb to meet the
USPS’s Full Service requirements. The second tier adds a mail tracking option
to assist mailers in moving to Full Service compliance. Tier 3, called Comply,
provides the ability to meet Move Update compliance. Finally, Comply Plus
extends the solution to include GrayHair’s Universal Address database and
provide complete address quality compliance.
In
addition to these solutions, the two companies are developing a new service
that will allow Pitney Bowes customers to gain increased visibility to their
mail pieces during the presorting and delivery process. This new service
will be available in Q2 2013.
“Our
collaboration with GrayHair will make it easier for Pitney Bowes to meet the
customized needs of our Presort Services clients,” said Jim Perkins, Senior
Vice President, Pitney Bowes Presort Services. “This new suite of solutions
will help our clients with a variety of issues including the upcoming Full
Service IMb deadline to increasing the visibility to their mail pieces.”
“As
the largest user of the IMb Tracing program with over one billion scans
monthly, we are delighted to be teaming up with Pitney Bowes to help provide a
suite of solutions that can help their customers solve today’s mailing
challenges and put a more definitive and complete collection of mailing data
into one easy-to-view report,” said Raymond Chin, GrayHair’s Vice President of
Product Management and Marketing. “These solutions will help mailers who are
concerned about the 2014 USPS® Full Service IMb requirements, while offering
services to support the efficient processing for automated discounts.”
As
the nation’s leading mail
presorter, Pitney Bowes enables customers to receive significant postage
discounts on First-Class™ letters and flats, and Standard Mail®. Pitney Bowes
Presort Services currently handles 14 billion pieces of mail per year through
its 36 facilities across the United States.
About
Pitney Bowes Inc.
Pitney
Bowes provides technology solutions for small, mid-size and
large firms that help them connect with customers to build loyalty and grow
revenue. The company’s solutions for financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications,
legal,
public
sector and retail
organizations are delivered on open platforms to best organize, analyze and
apply both public and proprietary data to two-way customer
communications. Pitney Bowes is the only firm that includes direct mail,
transactional mail, call centers and in-store technologies in its solution mix
along with digital channels such as the Web, email, live chat and mobile
applications. Pitney Bowes has approximately USD$5 billion in annual
revenues and 27,000 employees worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection
is a new opportunity™. www.pb.com
About
GrayHair Software
GrayHair
Software, Inc. is an innovator and industry leader in the development of
applications and services that improve and automate the management of business
mail. GrayHair’s offerings are delivered via SelectSolutions™,
a cloud-based platform that merges Software-as-a-Service with managed services.
This customizable set of critical mailing services includes enterprise-wide Intelligent
Mail® barcode assignment, trusted
third-party mail tracking, address
quality, presort
analysis, postage
reconciliation, mail
monitoring, global hybrid
mail and consulting.
GrayHair offers direct marketing consulting services through its GrayHair
Advisors division, which provides independent and unbiased guidance on
mail-related strategic issues.
For
more information, visit www.GrayHairSoftware.com and www.GrayHairAdvisors.com.