PitneyBowes.com - Stamford, CT based document management solutions provider
Pitneybowes
Pitney Bowes provides a comprehensive mail management system for companies. Pitney Bowes mail management suite includes mail handling software solutions, hardware solutions and other services that help a company manage the daily influx and outflux of correspondence. Pitney Bowes recognizes these services as highly essential to the operations of a company and has thus specialized in this specific area of concern.
The Start of the Company
The company got its start in the year 1902 when Arthur Pitney patented his newly invented postage stamping machine. In 1908, Walter Bowes had also started providing the United States Postal Service with his very own stamp-canceling machines.
Collaborations between Arthur Pitney and Walter Bowes soon led to them delivering the first postage meter approved by the United States Postal Service. By 1920, the American Postage Meter Company of Arthur Pitney and the Universal Stamping Machine Company of Walter Bowes had merged to form Pitney Bowes Inc.
The trend of innovating new and improved ideas in mail handling of the company has since been one of Pitney Bowes trademarks and, to date the company holds a total of 3,400 active patents. It is interesting to note that Executive Chairman Michael J. Critelli personally holds six of these patents.
The Hardware Solutions
The main product of Pitney Bowes is their comprehensive suite of mailstream solutions that include both the software and the hardware sides of the problem. The hardware solutions that the company provides includes specialized mail handling hardware such as high speed machines for mail insertion that can accurately match printed envelopes with the corresponding personalized transactional documents along with additional marketing documents.
They also have sorter machines which can pre-sort outgoing mail according to the zip code of the address provided. This alone can save several hundreds of thousands of dollars in postage costs for the mailer in a single day.
Also, the postage meter business started by Pitney Bowes way back when it started still continues to be heavily used to this day, being the only patented device that allows for the USPS to transact securely and through encrypted financial transactions with its numerous clients.
The Software Solutions
The company has also leaped forward with the upsurge of software mailing system solutions that started when the computer age began and when the internet was at its earliest years of growth. Pitney Bowes offers a complete software mailing solution which provides accuracy, integrity and personalization for each mail correspondence in the company.
Security wise, Pitney Bowes provides software which digitally captures an image of the pages of the correspondence through a digital camera so that the mail arrives to the right person at the right time.
The internet has also become one of Pitney Bowes best tools for hardware concerns. Through the internet, consumers can print for themselves shipping labels through their home computer setup which can save them a potentially long trip to the post office.
Pitney Bowes also maintains a location intelligence software solution which serves to layer economic and demographic information over addresses. This has been a great help to certain organizations such as online real estate services, Zillow, and even the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The Service Solutions
Pitney Bowes also acts as the service provider for the considerable mailroom requirements of several global companies and organizations. It is one of the leading outsourcing service providers for companies who prefer to outsource their mailroom requirements to mailroom experts. Pitney Bowes also offers consultative services that are backed by 87 years of expertise in transacting business with several official postal services of nations all over the world. This expertise can come in handy for companies that are looking for an optimized in-house mailroom service.
Pitney Bowes' Future
The emergence of a vast number of communication solutions, especially through the conveniences of the internet serves to encourage the growth of Pitney Bowes. In the coming years, the company will surely be taking on more customers, what with the high influx of sensitive and commercially important correspondence in e-commerce services such as eBay and Amazon. Banking transactions has also seen an increase recently and even government transactions such as ordering driver's licenses and mail voting will increase mail traffic and will need the mailroom service expertise of Pitney Bowes.
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