Pitney Bowes launches software to cut office mailing costs

Mailing equipment manufacturer Pitney Bowes has launched mailing software for corporate businesses to cut their office mailing costs

The company is also making the service available to print and mailing houses to sell on to their clients.

P/I OfficeMail is an automating service that the company is targeting at large corporates such as banks that have their own facilities.

Using the software, a company can create documents on an office PC and then send them straight to the printing facility, as opposed to printing on an office computer.

The job is transmitted to an in-house print centre or off-site facility, offering the benefits of a centralised print and mail site.

Pitney Bowes DMT marketing and product management EMEA Nick Khatri said: "The high cost of office printing and its inefficiencies often go undetected, particularly in large enterprises where each department is responsible for its own technology usage and printed output.

"Our own recent research reveals that Europe's businesses are currently wasting a staggering €13.2bn (£11.9bn) each year through such inefficiency. P/I OfficeMail provides our corporate and service bureau customers the ability to aggregate enterprise desktop mail to their production facility to gain economy of scale."

The software is also available to print and mail companies, which can rebrand it into a service of their own.

A spokesman for Pitney Bowes said that the service was perfect for mailing houses looking to add an additional service.

One company offering the service is Cardiff-based McLays, which re-branded it into miPost.
 
Barrie Stevens, marketing manager for miPost, said: "We presented the miPost solution to a number of existing and potential clients, and received extremely positive feedback across the full range of product benefits.

"Some wish to use it for monitoring staff performance, some to reduce their environmental impact and others to improve audit, security and control processes. A number are keen to use the software within their organisations and we have already agreed pilot activity with three of our financial services customers."


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