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Starting in 2010, the Postal Service requires mailers to apply a USPS®approved
address correction method on First-Class Mail® and Standard
Mail® submitted at discount postage rates.
If you don’t update addresses 95 days prior to the mailing, you will be
charged an additional seven cents per assessed piece.
“Mailing lists are the lifeblood of a customer’s mail communications,”
said Mark Pollack, vice president, marketing, U.S. Mailing, at
Pitney Bowes. “Our AddressRightNow online list management service
can help mailers easily and quickly improve the quality of addresses
in their mailing lists, which can lead to improved response rates and
reduced mailing costs.”
For information on Pitney Bowes products and services, check out their
web site at www.pb.com.
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Train Employees Online
In the rush to use new programs, many business owners
forget that people need to be taught how to use the
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program before they can be more productive.
An employee can lose up to three weeks of work time trying to tackle a
new program on their own, according to a survey of 400 PC users by SCO,
a British software firm, and Harris Research. In fact, the first month after a
new program is introduced, employees spend an average of 100 minutes
a week trying to figure out how to use it.
If you are looking for an alternative to sending your employees to community
college classes or hiring private instructors, try online training.
“I like to work on my own,” said Barbara Epstein, who signed up for
an online tutorial that taught her how to use Microsoft Office. “I really
don’t enjoy reading instruction books,” said Epstein. “This has given me
confidence with the computer.”
Because everyone learns differently, many online tutorials include
audio instruction as well as visual demonstrations. ElementK.com is one
of the biggest online training companies.