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No matter what kind of business you’re in – healthcare, finance, education, you name it – the one business you shouldn’t be in is printing. Many companies have a second internal gig, namely printing and mailing out their bills, statements, and anything else related to...

Anyone who has been through cancer knows how it changes everything – for both themselves and their families. Navigating the journey requires a team not just for aiding the physical health of everyone involved, but mental health as well. This is where Ann’s Place of...

For the last couple of years the USPS has been implementing their 10 year plan and have been raising prices two times a year.  We are constantly being asked why the increases and why two times a year? The Price increases are being driven mainly by 3 factors. Inflation...

When it comes to lead generation campaigns, marketers have a plethora of options at their disposal. From email marketing and social media advertising to content marketing and search engine optimization, the choices are endless. However, one strategy that often gets...

It’s no secret that the prices of everything have gone up. Supply chain issues, inflation, labor shortages and energy/food spikes. We all know the drill by now. And that now includes the United States Postal Service. The USPS has announced a price increase starting in...

Running a successful business can be a little bit like juggling bowling balls, chainsaws, and baby sharks. There are so many things to keep an eye on and ever-changing conditions that impact your day-to-day operations, not to mention, your bottom line. It can be...

No business is being spared by the current worldwide economic challenges. Between inflation, gas prices, and staff shortages due to the ongoing pandemic, keeping a business on track is now more difficult than ever. This is my second post on Outsourcing as we’ve seen a...

Your business runs like clockwork. Your invoices, key documents, essential paperwork all get printed, sorted, mailed, and delivered. It’s all just clicking along. Then, a big weather emergency. A local disaster that knocks out power for days. A key piece of equipment...

It’s been a rumor that’s been floating around– and while it’s not a done deal until it’s a done deal, it looks like the USPS will be raising its mail rates again in early July 2022 From the official materials we’ve seen, here’s the simplest breakdown: a piece of...

We’re doing something a little different with this post; you can “listen” to it! Recently, Chuck Chesler, president of Corporate Mail and Data Services, was invited to be a guest on the Postal-Biz Buzz podcast. Chuck and host Art Gerckens talked about the evolving...

The headlines have been showing it for months: filling positions has been a challenge like never before. The pandemic has created new workplace demands and conditions that business owners are trying to get their arms around. Simply put, a lot of great hires are out...

The Data and Marketing Association notes that 90% of direct mail gets opened vs 20-30% of emails. With numbers like that, any business whose mailing list isn’t the most robust it can be is really losing out. The mailing list is one of the most critical and valuable...

A new year brings plans to make your business better and more productive. That means reviewing/updating best practices, giving a closer look at the balance sheet, and finding ways to make everything run more efficiently and profitably. That may seem like a lot, but...

For centuries, the USPS has been the go-to solution to mailing – well, almost anything.  From bills to birthday cards, holiday gifts to fruit baskets. All pretty normal stuff, right? Well, in those many years, folks have used the postal service to send some oddball...

So many things are done digitally these days, but real-live actual mail is still a big part of every kind of business – from county offices and schools, to hospitals and manufacturers. And whether it’s invoices or packages, there are always postage costs involved....

Those little squares called “stamps”: we take them for granted (until we need one to mail a birthday card or bill). Stamps (and postage in general) are such a fixture in our daily lives that we kind of ignore them. But they have an interesting history, so here are...

For way too long, too many businesses have opted to do their own postage and mailing. That has meant crowding precious office space with big, bulky equipment. It’s meant using staff to operate it, then haul mail to the nearest post office, when they could be doing...

We take our daily mail delivery for granted. But let’s jump back a few hundred years: if you wanted to send birthday greetings, important news,  or anything else, it wasn’t so easy. There was no Fed X or Amazon Prime deliveries. It was...complicated. The earliest...

Let’s face it: deciding which class of mail is the most cost-and-time efficient for your business can be a little bit like trying to choose from a gigantic diner menu. First-class? Flat rate? Retail ground? Priority? Corporate Mail and Data Services (CMADS) has been...

The current Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, recently rolled out a 58-page plan called “Delivering for America”  which establishes some fairly big changes for the post office over the next ten years. So which ones will have the biggest impact on your business?...

From the clerk at the window, to the carrier who delivers your mail, postal workers are part of our everyday lives. It is all too easy to just see their uniform or the familiar mail truck, and not think about the actual person doing the job. That’s why we wanted to...

There’s “mingling,” as at a cocktail party. Then there’s “co-mingling.” What’s THAT all about? If you’ve been looking into using a pre-sorted mail service, you may have run across the term as it relates to mail pieces and discounts. Let’s break it down for you. The...

We’re glad you’ve discovered our brand new site for Corporate Mail and Data Services! While our company has been around for over 20 years, we’re continually finding ways to provide customers (old and new) with even better products and technology to make their mail,...

Despite all the ways technology has changed how we pay bills onlinebilling, fact is, the postal service is the way most companies send critical financial information to their customers and clients. The post office was established in 1775 (with good ol’ Ben Franklin as...