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What Is Presort Mail, and How Does It Reduce Postage Rates?

Postage can be a considerable cost center in transactional print and mail. Reducing the rate is possible with postage optimization, which includes presorting. But what is presort mail, and how does using it deliver a better rate? What Is Presort Mail? Presort mail refers to sorting letters by ZIP code and grouping them prior [...]

2025-06-30T14:13:36-05:00June 30th, 2025|Categories: Advanced Technologies, Blogs, Postal News, Vertical Markets|Tags: |

Print and Mail Vendors Checklist: See How Your Provider Compares

Does your print and mail vendor excel at compliance, security, accuracy, and quality? These are the four pillars in transactional communications. While you may think all providers are the same, there are some key differentiators that some just don’t have. If you’ve been outsourcing these mailings for years or months, you should be comparing [...]

Financial Services Communications: 6 Things to Know About Outsourcing

Every day, millions and millions of financial services communications make their way through the mail stream. These letters, documents, and statements contain critical and protected information. Because of their nature, they require specific guardrails to ensure accuracy, security, [...]

How to Avoid the Rising Tide of Postage Costs

Are postage cost increases unavoidable? The USPS typically makes rate changes twice annually, with the next one scheduled forn July 13, 2025. Overall, costs surged by 7.4%. Companies managing their own print and mail shops will face a hit to budgets, as more money will be necessary to cover these. It can be even [...]

2025-06-24T07:30:19-05:00June 3rd, 2025|Categories: Advanced Technologies, Blogs, Postal News, Vertical Markets|Tags: |

5 Benefits of Adopting Print-to-Mail Services

Customer communications encompass a wide variety of statements, documents, and letters. Some fall under the specialty category of being transactional, which involves regulations and rules. Companies often face challenges with these, from compliance concerns to exploding costs. In most cases, workflows aren’t [...]

A Guide to Managed Print and Mail Services

Finding ways to optimize your communication operations can be challenging when managing it all in-house. Rising material costs, complicated compliance rules, and ensuring data security create barriers to efficiency. Businesses may think they can’t outsource transactional mailings, but there’s a whole industry dedicated to it. Managed print and mail services [...]

The 7 Pillars of Mail Data Security

very organization faces challenges in data security. As the amount of confidential and protected data increases, so do the threats of cyberattacks. A target for this group includes the information present in transactional communications. As a result, several pillars must be in place for mail data security. Should these be nonexistent or insufficient, you’re [...]

Full-Service Printing, Mailing, and Document Solutions with PCI Group

The complex processes, high costs, and security and compliance mandates make it difficult for a business to manage transactional communications. They often face challenges that impact many other things downstream. If it’s not a core competency, it becomes an obstacle. However, companies don’t have to continue this cycle. They can depend on companies like [...]

Transactional Documents Rules: Why These Mailings Are Unique

Every business must keep customers, users, or patients informed. These communications often contain personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). When they do, they are transactional documents. With this classification, the mailings must follow rules and should adhere to other best practices. Let’s review why they are unique and what you should [...]

Outsourcing Healthcare Printing: Compliance, Security, and Accuracy Requirements

Many different stakeholders in healthcare produce and mail communications to patients. From billing statements to explanations of benefits (EOBs), these documents contain sensitive information. As a result, healthcare printing has many requirements. When companies choose to outsource these, they need a compliance- and accuracy-focused partner. If you’re considering transitioning to this model, follow these [...]