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March 27 2024
In past articles on requests for proposals (RFPs), we’ve discussed the team, the process, and the reasons why RFPs work. It’s just as important to consider what is included in the actual...
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Aug. 11 2023
Many of the hardships facing managers today aren’t new to our industry. However, the pandemic intensified the growing challenges facing operations managers – including budget cuts, worker
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March 17 2023
"A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." – Will Rogers What was the last training course you completed? What was the last
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March 24 2022
The constancy of change in the print industry has been true since Guttenberg, and Ben Franklin would be amazed at how mail is prepared, processed, and delivered today. The most successful orga
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Oct. 13 2021
When you visit a doctor’s office, they have their medical school diploma hanging on the wall. If they’re a specialist, they’ll also include their certification in the specific field,...
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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...
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Aug. 10 2020
If you were in the mailing business before 1936, letters sent out in envelopes were stuffed by hand. Albert Williams of the Inserting and Mailing Machine Company in Tatamy, PA changed that wit
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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
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Jan. 10 2020
A successful operation is built around people, process, and technology. In print and mail operations, the equipment used to process inbound and outbound documents is becoming faster, more accu
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April 10 2019
It seems that every day, there’s a news story about hackers stealing customer information from a computer system. Most publicized cases involve large companies being hacked for credit card inf
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Nov. 26 2018
This originally appeared in the September/October, 2018 issue of Mailing Systems Technology.As a mailer, you took the right steps to select a service provider for your documents. The request for
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July 23 2018
When a company decides to outsource customer communications to a service provider, that doesn’t mean the work is done. The vendor must be monitored and managed to ensure that they’re meeting...
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April 27 2018
When you sort the pieces that arrived in your mailbox today, take a good look at the return addresses. Some of the mail you received wasn’t printed by the company whose name appears in the upper...
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June 14 2017
On May 30, 1984, I reported to basic training (“boot camp”) at Fort Dix, New Jersey. I still carry the lessons I learned during those nine weeks. I didn’t learn everything I needed to...
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April 24 2017
Recently, I participated in an online discussion about the Request for Proposal (RFP) process. It was similar to the conversations I have with clients when we recommend using an RFP to select a
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Feb. 23 2017
Back in the 1990s, I developed a presentation entitled “Information Technology for Mail Center Managers.” The section on purchasing software was pretty basic. Were your applications on a mai
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Dec. 21 2016
In a previous article, we discussed the importance of building a business case to get approval from senior management for a major expense or transformation. In many situations, managers may be a
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Feb. 22 2016
During most of our customer engagements, we usually hear variants of the same question: · “What do the best operations do?” ·  
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March 16 2015
By Mark Fallon

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