National Mailing Systems News
Celebrating 20 Years in Business 1986-2006!
 The U.S. Postal Service has unveiled proposed new pricing incentives that would effectively reshape the future of mail and provide benefits to both business customers and the Postal Service. The current pricing structure for postal products relies primarily on a weight based system. The new plan – sent to the Postal Rate Commission (PRC) as part of a 2007 price adjustment proposal package – combines weight with shape to allow the Postal Service to better align prices with processing costs to ensure every type of mail covers its costs. The USPS Rate and Structure Change is effective May 14, 2007.
Since Shape-Based Pricing deemphasizes an item's weight in favor of a size, thickness and weight combination, you will see a major shift in the USPS' mailing cost structure. Due to shape variations, letters, flats and parcels will now all be priced differently because they are all handled and processed differently.
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Shape-Based Pricing mean its more important than ever to consider the type of mail peice you are sending. If you can send your mailing in a letter envelope, as opposed to a flat, you can reduce you costs up to 30%. With a Hasler or PFE folder/inserter to help you save time and money you will have one lesss concern to worry about.
Under the new USPS Shape-Based Pricing guidelines, it is more important than ever to prepare your mail successfully in order to save money. Let out complete line of Address printers ensure you have a clean, deliverable address .
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As part of Hasler's Integrated Document Management solution, DCS by Hasler allows you to better manage your outgoing documents in light of Shape-Base Pricing. By grouping documents to eliminate wasteful multiple mailings to the same customer, to automatically folding and inserting varying page sets. DCS by Hasler allows you to take advantage of postal automation savings.
To save money with the Shape-Based Pricing you have to be better informed of USPS mailing and shipping costs and the options available to you. The iMCM G2 is a powerful Internet connected shipping solution that gives you the capability to take control of your mailing and shipping costs.
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Time waits for no one...and neither will the USPS® meter mandates! |
With the United States Postal Service® new meter migration deadlines quickly approaching, it's time to make sure your business can keep pace. We want you to stay informed by providing you with important deadlines established by the USPS®. In an effort to reduce tampering and fraudulent misuse of company postal funds and meters, the USPS® has issued a phased migration plan which requires all postage rotary meters to be replaced by digital mailing machines with enhanced security features, including the preferred information based indicia (IBI).
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The new digital IBI meters will permit detection of counterfeit indicia by imprinting a unique digital bar code that enables the USPS® to verify postage is legitimate and accurate, under the new USPS® revenue protection program.
As a result, rotary postage meters not currently equipped with an automatic shut-off option must be replaced by December 31, 2006 (Phase 3). And all other rotary postage meters must be replaced with digital printing meters that meet USPS® requirements by December 31, 2008 (Phase 4).
The Clock is ticking...so why wait any longer to upgrade to a digital meter?
If you're currently a Hasler customer or even if you're using a non-Hasler postage meter at the present time, National Mailing Systems representatives are ready to help you determine how best to cost effectively meet your postage needs and satisfy all USPS® meter requirements before the deadlines occur.
For more information contact us at (703) 848-9494 or by email.
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