Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software

Mailing Efficiency Track

What’s New

Besides all of the major changes taking place in our coding and presort products, Group 1 Software is responding to many other customer needs with new products and updates to existing products you may need to know about. Our new “AbbrevIT” product will allow you to abbreviate CASS addresses to fit the field sizes of your legacy systems while keeping the addresses CASS compliant. Find out what upcoming product changes will address new industry requirements. Learn what new USPS programs like Seamless Acceptance, FAST, PostalOne! and processes like FSS will mean to you.

Canadian Coding and Presort

“Once again find out what CanadaPost and Pitney Bowes Software have in store for you. A must for all SortStream Canada or Canadian CODE-1 users.

• Presort Changes: CanadaPost will support electronic documentation of most or all mail in 2009 using SortStream Canada’s “Event Manager Files”. Mailers will also have to print barcoded tray tags for the first time.
• Addressing Changes: Mailing Industry Panel — The USPS is introducing more changes in the next couple years than in the past ten. How will these impact you? Hear from Pitney Bowes and Mailing Industry Subject Matter Experts in this popular forum that provides plenty of opportunities to get your questions answered.”

CODE-1 Plus and Finalist Mega Session

Talk to product management and key developers about your CODE-1 Plus and Finalist issues and needs. Learn about future direction and functionality for the product along with the impact of Cycle M.

Virtual Returned Mail — A Study in Intelligent Mail Enabled Services

The IMB will be a required mandate to obtain maximum postal discounts. However, optional postal services such as ACS, are expected to create a new wave of enterprise communication applications that can improve cash flow, increase customer retention and lower mail processing costs.

Learn how Virtual Return Mail solution can provide same day visibility to rejected mail (instead of waiting weeks), an automated workflow to get the communication through and in many cases actually eliminate the need to physically receive and process returned mail. A description of enabling technologies, the solution and functions, and business case parameters will be discussed.

Mailing Industry Panel

The USPS is introducing more changes in the next couple years than in the past ten years. How will these impact you? Hear from Pitney Bowes and mailing industry subject matter experts in this popular forum that provides plenty of opportunities to get your questions answered.

MailSteam Plus Mega Session

Learn what’s new and talk to product management and key developers about your needs and issues. This session has been a favorite for many years. You will also learn about recent and upcoming features to support the Intelligent Mail Barcode, upcoming enhancements and a new option that allows mailers to more effectively commingle mail that does not qualify for the highest discounts.

VeriMove Update

Complying with the Move Update requirement will never be more important. This year the USPS will be able to monitor your compliance using their Merlin® system and next year with the Intelligent Mail Barcode. VeriMove is the premier NCOALink™ solution but Group 1 is not stopping there. We are planning new enhancements and options for VeriMove that will allow you to not only meet Move Update requirements but also maximize the business value of knowing that your customers have moved.

Intelligent Mail Implementation

We will review final IMB rules and how you can implement Full Service IMB and BASIC IMB with our products. We will do a deep dive on Full Service IMB Implementation which will maximize your postage discounts and enable you to take advantage of IMB related services.

Basic and Full Service IMB Implementation

• Implementing with CODE-1 Plus, Finalist or MailStream Plus
• Assigning and Managing Unique IMB Numbers
• Pre-composition, Post-composition and mixed production environments
• Printing the IMB
• Intelligent Mail Tray Tags and Pallet Placards
• Meeting e-documentation requirements”

Making Intelligent Mail Work For You

Just printing an Intelligent Mail Barcode on your mail helps the USPS, but how can you make it benefit your company? Find out how you can employ the IMB to solve a number of mailing and business problems and do following:

• Reduce Customer Service Cost
• Create Operational Savings
• Predict and Improve Cash Flow
• Reduce Bad Debt and Fraud
• Improve Customer Relationships and Loyalty
• Provide Low Cost “Proof of Mailing”
• Maximize Postage Discounts Today and in the Future”

Address Quality

Complete, Correct and Current Addresses
With Jim Wilson from the USPS

CASS Cycle M

Though CASS Cycle M will not be implemented until August of 2009, it will include significant changes that may impact your postage. In the CASS Cycle M session, we will cover all the changes so you can begin preparing for implementation.

New Technology Directions: Turbo-charge Your Operations Environment

Be among the first to learn the unique features and benefits of Group 1’s new network-centric mail technology! Discover how to become current with our newest products and capabilities. Understand how to implement this technology in your environment. See how it provides improved and predictable performance. Learn about automatic, customer-driven product and dataset update distribution. Finally, see how we can future-proof your platform environment for change. Experience how you can become part of our innovative future direction.