The addition of our second Xerox DocuColor 8000AP, bringing our total number of high-speed digital production presses to ten (10), will allow us to continue to meet our ever-increasing high demand for the variable color, variable image digital market. The Xerox DC8000AP is front-ended with EFI Fiery’s latest RIP. Other than the obvious 80 page per minute production throughput, this move also increases our productivity by standardizing all RIPs on all printers to the EFI Command Workstation user interface.
Mar
19
Fulfillment Partners – Millennium Marketing Group doubles print capacity on its high-speed
ink jets. With 12 print heads distributed over 4 banks, we now have the ability to ink jet
variable information on an area of 6” x 13.5”in a single pass.
Feb
17
Complete “Current-Versus-New” Pricing Analysis
Overall, it looks to be the standard 3 to 4 % increase over last year. However, a few very big changes are worth noting:
Like last year, Flats again seem to be the hardest hit. The 3-Digit sortation level of First Class automated Flats increased a little over 13%. Standard Automated Flats at the AADC level saw a little over 11% increase in postage.
Perhaps the hardest hit, though was a restructuring of sortation levels on Not Flat Machine-able (NFM) Flats eliminating 5-digit and 3-digit sortation categories altogether unless mailers are willing to foot the trucking charges to ship the mail to it’s BMC, SCF or DDU destinations. This restructuring of sortation levels effectively increased the cost of this type of mail piece as much as 92% for standard mail regular and an astounding 148% for Non-Profit Mail.
On the up side, two categories actually decreased in cost by 4 to 6% - Non-Automated, Non-Machine-able Standard Regular and Non-Profit Letters.
Below is a line-by-line analysis of last year’s versus this year’s postage rates for the most commonly used mail categories. This analysis only shows the non-destination entry rates.
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Postage Analysis - May 2009 |
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2008 |
5/11/2009 |
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Price |
Price |
Chng |
% Chng |
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First Class - Single Piece (1 oz or less) |
$0.420 |
$0.440 |
$0.020 |
4.7619% |
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Presorted 1st Class Cards (Automated) |
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5-Digit |
$0.199 |
$0.205 |
$0.006 |
3.0151% |
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3-Digit |
$0.210 |
$0.218 |
$0.008 |
3.8095% |
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AADC |
$0.213 |
$0.220 |
$0.007 |
3.2864% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.223 |
$0.230 |
$0.007 |
3.1390% |
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Prsrted 1st Class Letters (Auto) (1-oz) |
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5-Digit |
$0.324 |
$0.335 |
$0.011 |
3.3951% |
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3-Digit |
$0.346 |
$0.357 |
$0.011 |
3.1792% |
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AADC |
$0.351 |
$0.360 |
$0.009 |
2.5641% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.369 |
$0.382 |
$0.013 |
3.5230% |
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Prsrted 1st Class Flats (Auto) (1-oz) |
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5-Digit |
$0.364 |
$0.380 |
$0.016 |
4.3956% |
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3-Digit |
$0.479 |
$0.542 |
$0.063 |
13.1524% |
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AADC |
$0.570 |
$0.603 |
$0.033 |
5.7895% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.702 |
$0.725 |
$0.023 |
3.2764% |
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Std Mail Reg - Letters (Auto) |
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5-Digit |
$0.225 |
$0.233 |
$0.008 |
3.5556% |
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3-Digit |
$0.241 |
$0.251 |
$0.010 |
4.1494% |
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AADC |
$0.244 |
$0.253 |
$0.009 |
3.6885% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.257 |
$0.270 |
$0.013 |
5.0584% |
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Std Mail Reg - Letters (Non-Auto/Non-Mach) |
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5-Digit |
$0.343 |
$0.330 |
-$0.013 |
-3.7901% |
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3-Digit |
$0.438 |
$0.447 |
$0.009 |
2.0548% |
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AADC |
$0.461 |
$0.491 |
$0.030 |
6.5076% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.561 |
$0.578 |
$0.017 |
3.0303% |
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Std Mail Non-Profit - Letters (Auto) |
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5-Digit |
$0.127 |
$0.132 |
$0.005 |
3.9370% |
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3-Digit |
$0.143 |
$0.150 |
$0.007 |
4.8951% |
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AADC |
$0.146 |
$0.152 |
$0.006 |
4.1096% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.159 |
$0.169 |
$0.010 |
6.2893% |
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Std Mail Non-Profit - Letters (Non-Auto) |
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5-Digit |
$0.245 |
$0.229 |
-$0.016 |
-6.5306% |
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3-Digit |
$0.340 |
$0.346 |
$0.006 |
1.7647% |
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AADC |
$0.363 |
$0.390 |
$0.027 |
7.4380% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.463 |
$0.477 |
$0.014 |
3.0238% |
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Std Mail Reg - Flats (Auto) |
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5-Digit |
$0.339 |
$0.346 |
$0.007 |
2.0649% |
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3-Digit |
$0.400 |
$0.418 |
$0.018 |
4.5000% |
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AADC |
$0.436 |
$0.486 |
$0.050 |
11.4679% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.489 |
$0.496 |
$0.007 |
1.4315% |
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Std Mail Reg - Flats (Non-Auto) |
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5-Digit |
$0.366 |
$0.367 |
$0.001 |
0.2732% |
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3-Digit |
$0.451 |
$0.464 |
$0.013 |
2.8825% |
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AADC |
$0.483 |
$0.509 |
$0.026 |
5.3830% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.553 |
$0.558 |
$0.005 |
0.9042% |
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Std Mail Non-Profit - Flats (Auto) |
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5-Digit |
$0.206 |
$0.212 |
$0.006 |
2.9126% |
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3-Digit |
$0.267 |
$0.284 |
$0.017 |
6.3670% |
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AADC |
$0.303 |
$0.352 |
$0.049 |
16.1716% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.356 |
$0.362 |
$0.006 |
1.6854% |
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Std Mail Non-Profit - Flats (Non-Auto) |
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5-Digit |
$0.233 |
$0.233 |
$0.000 |
0.0000% |
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3-Digit |
$0.318 |
$0.330 |
$0.012 |
3.7736% |
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AADC |
$0.350 |
$0.375 |
$0.025 |
7.1429% |
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Mixed AADC |
$0.420 |
$0.424 |
$0.004 |
0.9524% |
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Std Mail Reg - Not Flat Machinable |
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5-Digit |
$0.519 |
Eliminated |
$0.477 |
91.9075% |
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3-Digit |
$0.580 |
Eliminated |
$0.416 |
71.7241% |
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AADC |
$0.871 |
$0.996 |
$0.125 |
14.3513% |
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Mixed AADC |
$1.183 |
$1.515 |
$0.332 |
28.0642% |
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Std Mail Non-Profit - Not Flat Machinable |
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5-Digit |
$0.353 |
Eliminated |
$0.524 |
148.4419% |
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3-Digit |
$0.414 |
Eliminated |
$0.463 |
111.8357% |
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AADC |
$0.705 |
$0.877 |
$0.172 |
24.3972% |
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Mixed AADC |
$1.102 |
$1.334 |
$0.232 |
21.0856% |
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Std Mail (B) - Bound Printed Matter |
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Zones - Local, 1 & 2 |
$1.413 + $0.137/lb |
$1.452 + $0.164/lb |
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Zone 3 |
$1.413 + $0.170/lb |
$1.452 + $0.195/lb |
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Zone 4 |
$1.413 + $0.210/lb |
$1.452 + $0.235/lb |
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Zone 5 |
$1.413 + $0.269/lb |
$1.452 + $0.301/lb |
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Zone 6 |
$1.413 + $0.338/lb |
$1.452 + $0.372/lb |
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Zone 7 |
$1.413 + $0.381/lb |
$1.452 + $0.427/lb |
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Zone 8 |
$1.413 + $0.508/lb |
$1.452 + $0.566/lb |
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May
14
Unlike direct mail advertising, “fulfillment” is something that is sent out to a customer or business in reply to a request or result of an action. Fulfillment services can encompass actual products or merchandise that someone ordered, a request by a business to send sales or convention material to a specific location, or, even a mailed confirmation in reply to a resort reservation to a consumer or travel agency. Fulfillment Partners, Inc – Millennium Marketing Group offers the best fulfillment services in the Orlando Florida area.
