Group 1 recently sent the documents listed below to the primary user contacts on a maintenance plan via mass fax, mail, or with your product shipment. You may find these and other documents at www.g1.com/support. (Please have your user ID and password handy.) For our Fax-on-Demand system (FOD), please call 301-918-0781 and select menu option 4 to retrieve the document number indicated below. For List Services, visit the Technical Support - List Services area of our Web site to subscribe at www.g1.com/support.

The following documents have recently been posted to the Pending Product Updates area of the Group 1 Support site. Once a Product Update becomes available, Group 1 will notify the primary user contact for that product via mass fax. You may find these and other documents at www.g1.com/support/. (Please have your user ID and password handy.)

With less than two months before Horizons 2004, time is running out to save $100 on your registration. Register before July 21, 2004 and pay only $595. You don't want to miss a great Group 1 conference - Atlanta, Georgia, July 21-23, 2004.

Register online or call the Conference Registrar, Janice Broadway, at 301-918-0314 and take advantage of this great discount. Be among the first to sign up for the Hands-on Product Labs. Remember these sessions are limited to 24 attendees per session.

This year's conference is filled with informative sessions, hands-on opportunities, and excellent networking opportunities for everyone. Take a break Thursday evening and stop by the Tailgate Party. What better way to get into the spirit of the game than with great food, great friends and great music! We guarantee a big win at this year's festivities, so put on your favorite team's colors (hats, jerseys, etc.) and get ready for game time!

For more information about Horizons 2004, visit our Web site at http:www.g1.com/uconf.

Call today about discounts on Group 1's CODE-1 Plus and MailStream Plus classes being offered in Irvine, California; Downers Grove, IL; Addison, TX; and Lanham, MD.

We also offer onsite classes. Some companies find onsite classes given at their location a better investment. These courses are convenient, customized using your in-house data, and can be more economical than the public seminars depending on the size of your group. Onsite classes are $2000/day plus expenses. Mention you read about onsite classes in Newscast when you register and Group 1 will pay the instructor's expenses! eLearning classes are offered by Group 1 University as an additional method of training - so you don't have to leave your office.

Don't forget that Pre-Conference Intensives are offered every year at the Users' Conference. This year, the classes will be held July 19-20, in Atlanta, Georgia. The offerings are CODE-1 Plus, MailStream Plus and Merge/Purge Plus.

Through education you can:

• Improve the software system performance by learning the most optimal ways to set up your jobs.
• Learn how to apply the features/functions of your software to improve your own internal business functions.
• Learn new functionality and features that will increase the overall value of your purchase.
• Take your skills to a higher level of expertise by gaining exposure and learning best-practices.

For more information, please contact the Education Manager by e-mail at annette_warder@g1.com or by telephone at 301-918-6392.

Under Strategic Alliance, Pfastship Is Integrating and Reselling Group 1's Universal Coder With Its Nexgen.Ship and iSeries.Ship Software Solutions

Group 1 Software and Pfastship, a leading provider of shipping software technology, recently announced an OEM agreement for global address validation technology. With this agreement, Pfastship is integrating and reselling Group 1's Universal Coder technology with its Nexgen.Ship and iSeries.Ship multi-carrier shipping automation solutions. The Universal Coder provides validation, correction and standardization of address information for over 220 countries and dependencies worldwide.

Nexgen.Ship and iSeries.Ship automate the parcel shipping process and dramatically reduces freight costs by shopping rates and eliminating inefficient routing and added surcharges. Using Group 1's technology, Pfastship will be able to verify global address information before shipping, thereby reducing carrier chargebacks associated with incorrect addresses. Group 1's technology also provides Pfastship's customers access to RDI™ (Residential Delivery Indicator) and DPV™ (Delivery Point Validation) programs. The RDI file enables parcel shippers to determine if an address is a residence or a business. With this information, parcel shippers can determine the best cost for shipping packages, as alternate carriers place a surcharge on residential deliveries. DPV enables users to verify that an actual delivery address exists, down to the apartment or suite level, thereby reducing undeliverable-as-addressed shipments resulting from inaccurate addresses.

“We are excited to announce that Group 1 Software, the leader in the direct marketing software industry for over two decades, is our new partner of choice for global address validation,” said C. Eugene Cook, CEO of Pfastship. “Group 1's Universal Coder is a powerful, single-source solution for all of our address intelligence needs and provides our users unparalleled performance and ease-of-use. We look forward to working with Group 1 to support our customers' address verification needs.”

“We're very pleased to enter into this partnership with Pfastship, a shipping automation provider with a track record for innovation and a rapidly expanding market presence,” said Bob Bowen, CEO of Group 1 Software. “The combination of Pfastship's multi-carrier shipping software and the Universal Coder provides organizations a complete solution for parcel rate determination, shipment, routing, and delivery.”

Local User Group meetings are a great place to exchange information, share your ideas with others and learn more about Group 1 products. Please check the listings below and attend the meeting that is most convenient for you.

Local User Group chapters are open to ALL Group 1 customers. Membership and registration are handled on a local level. Group 1 clients are invited and encouraged to join the group of their choice.

OHIO AREA

Location:	Bank One, 1111 Polaris Parkway, Columbus, Ohio 43271
Date:	Thursday, June 10, 2004
Time:	1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Topic:	TBA
Contact:	Scott Saffell - scott_w_saffell@bankone.com and Jane Damschroder - jdamschroder@checkfree.com

PHILADELPHIA AREA

Location:	UGI Utilities, Inc., 225 Morgantown Rd, Reading, PA
Date:	Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Time:	9:00 a.m.
Topic:	TBA
Contact:	Susan Miller - smmiller@ugi.com

Please click here for a summary of the May 19, 2004 meeting.

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Below are some links that may be of interest to our customers:

Group 1's Web Page - http://www.g1.com. The Group 1 Software Web site provides customers with valuable information concerning different areas of the company. From this Web site, you can access education information, recent press releases, support, and much more useful information.

USPS Web Site Business Section - http://www.usps.com/smallbiz

The USPS Web Site - www.usps.gov. This Web site allows customers to check out the latest information regarding postage rates and fees, news and events in the postal community, locations of local post offices, and provides various other links. There is also a place where postal service customers can track the status of a package or access other online mailing forms.

Canada Post - http://www.canadapost.ca/splash.asp. This is the direct link to the Canada Post Web site. Follow this link to view a quick and free course in Canadian NDG sorting (http://www.canadapost.ca/business/ndg/default-e.asp).

USPS PostalOne - http://www.pilot.uspspostalone.com. This is the direct link to the USPS PostalOne Web site.

USPS Rapid Information Bulletin Board System - http://ribbs.usps.gov. This is the National Customer Support Center for the United States Postal Service. It provides you mail-service updates, current weather conditions, and other interesting facts pertaining to the Postal Service.

Postal Rate Commission - http://www.prc.gov. The Postal Rate Commission Web site provides information about the organization, its function and procedures, along with postal rates and fees. It also provides a location where you can voice your opinion to the Consumer Advocate.

Nonprofit Mailers - http://www.nonprofitmailers.org. The Alliance is the primary representative of nonprofit mailers before the Postal Rate Commission, at the United States Postal Service's (USPS) Headquarters, and on Capitol Hill.

Postcom - http://www.postcom.org. Postcom is the Association for Postal Commerce. Its Web site provides you with up-to-date information regarding what is going on in the "postal world." It includes links to other helpful sites, as well as a place to contact your US Senators or Representatives.

We welcome comments and suggestions regarding Newscast. Please send them to cc@g1.com. Please be sure to include "NEWSCAST" in your subject line. Please look for your next issue to arrive in your e-mail box on or near June 11, 2004.

Newscast - Volume 7, Issue 04
Date: May 28, 2004
Editor: Becki Dustin (cc@g1.com) Asst. Editor: Denny Derr
Phone: 1-800-367-6950

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