OUTSOURCING

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...

3 Ways to Stretch Your Postage Dollars

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....

STAMPS: MORE INTERESTING THAN YOU THINK

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...

GET RID OF YOUR POSTAGE MACHINE(S): HERE’S WHY

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...

How Did Mail “Get There” Back In the Day?

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...