STAMFORD, Conn., May 02, 2011 – Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today announced it is introducing the Reliant™ Sorting Solution to provide lower-volume mail producers with a cost-efficient way to sort a variety of outgoing mail to obtain USPS® postage discounts and to speed the delivery of incoming mail. Ideal for enterprises and government agencies, the new solution features a small footprint, making it easy to add to existing mail operations. In addition, the Reliant Sorting Solution can help organizations manage private, high-integrity mail in one location for their transactional print and mail operations.

“Changes in technology, mail volumes, mail patterns, USPS® processes, and economic conditions are causing more organizations to reconsider their strategy for obtaining postage discounts,” said Grant Miller, vice president, global strategic product management and North American sales, Document Messaging Technologies, Pitney Bowes. “Our new Reliant Sorting Solution makes it viable for organizations with lower mail volumes to sort their mail in-house to take advantage of deeper postage discounts.”

The Reliant Sorting Solution can sort letters up to 18,000 per hour and flats up to 16,000 per hour. Measuring only 9.9 feet long by 34 inches wide, the small footprint of the solution makes it seamless to add to existing mail and print operations. The Reliant Sorting Solution enables mailers to access U.S. Postal Service® outbound sorting, in-bound sorting, and Vote by Mail applications. The solution is also backed by a single service and support team for peak efficiency and performance. The Reliant Sorting Solution is available immediately for order.

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NEW YORK, January 06, 2011 – Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today announced the Volly™ secure digital delivery service, a new cloud-based digital mail communications platform that will empower consumers to receive, view, organize, and manage bills, statements, direct marketing, catalogs, coupons and other content from multiple providers using a single application. This opt-in, consumer-focused consolidation service, which also includes online bill pay, will begin to be made available to consumers in the United States in the second half of 2011.

Expanding Pitney Bowes’s Customer Communications Management (CCM) portfolio, the Volly™ digital delivery service will provide a secure, electronic means of communication and help organizations realize significant cost savings, while ultimately empowering consumers with an opt-in, spam-free experience to help organize and manage their lives.

With the Volly™ secure digital delivery service, Pitney Bowes will provide participating high-volume mailers with a communications service that can expand consumer options while also giving mailers the ability to:

* integrate with their existing physical mail delivery processes;

* rapidly deliver cost savings including reduced operating expenditures.

Pitney Bowes can also help mailers, billers, cataloguers, and government agencies save time to market and additional valuable resources by initiating the electronic relationship and connecting them with each customer.

Pitney Bowes already connects with consumers in their daily lives. From providing the engine that generates postage labels for millions of eBay shipments every year, to handling all American changes of address on an outsource basis for more than 40 million moves annually — Pitney Bowes has extensive experience understanding consumers, and managing consumer interactions and financial transactions.

STAMFORD, Conn., October 11, 2010 – Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced it is hosting a series of U.S. Customer Summits at its mail services facilities from October 12 through December 14. The “Customer Appreciation and Mail Innovation Summits” will take place at 34 Pitney Bowes Mail Services locations throughout the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »

STAMFORD, Conn.– Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today introduced its newest entry in the mail sortation market, the Pitney Bowes® Vantage™ Sorting Solution, designed to automate more mail sorting processes, including weighing and postage metering, saving time and reducing expenses. The new system is exhibited at the 2010 Graph Expo exhibition and conference in Chicago, IL, in Booth #3601 and also at Post Expo in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Stand #2020.

The Vantage™ Sorting Solution is intended to deliver superior performance along a number of dimensions, including productivity, reliability, flexibility and ease of use, for a greater total return on investment. Its new feeder technology allows for greater variability of mailpiece thickness than current systems, without compromising system speed. The increased loading capacity and L-shape feeder deck design simplifies workflow. Sorting integrity—a critical component of meeting stringent postal and business requirements—is enhanced by tracking each mailpiece to its final sort pocket destination and by an innovative new double-detection technology that can even distinguish tabbed mailpieces.

“This solution is the culmination of countless conversations with our global customers about the specific capabilities they require. In fact, the Vantage™ Sorting Solution is designed specifically to help mailers to create real value in the mail sorting process,” said Grant Miller, vice president for global strategic product management at Pitney Bowes Document Messaging Technologies. “Posts, service bureaus, presort shops, enterprise mailers and mail consolidators will all find this powerful, flexible and scalable new solution can help deliver results for their business.”

One of the key value propositions, Miller noted, is the ability to offer integration of mail sorting with other processes, such as inline weighing and postage metering. This automation of more mail processes not only streamlines the overall way mailpieces are handled, but also allows mailers to accept mail from more sources and expand their service.

The Vantage™ Sorting Solution’s ergonomic design takes the safety and comfort of its operators into account as well. All optional equipment, such as printers, are housed in the chassis and behind covers for improved accessibility and quieter operation.

Pitney Bowes backs up the Vantage™ Sorting Solution with optional service packages that can help keep the system operating with superior performance over the long haul. Pitney Bowes’s specially trained customer service organization can help the system run at its optimal efficiency, enabling mailers to provide aggressive Service Level Agreements to their clients.

”The Vantage™ Sorting Solution takes our years of experience in mailing technology and exceptional customer service and puts it all together. It delivers superior quality, higher overall throughput speed and ease of operation that will enhance our customers’ business operations.” commented Miller. First placements of the new systems are expected in the fourth quarter of 2010.

STAMFORD, Conn., August 26, 2010 – Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced it is opening a new domestic mail presorting facility in Jacksonville, Florida. The new site is Pitney Bowes’s first mail services facility in the Florida market and will expand its services and capabilities in the South. The Florida facility, which will open its doors in November, will offer mailers the opportunity to benefit from postage discounts, increased mailing efficiencies and delivery optimization via Pitney Bowes’s nationwide presort network.

Located at 8551 Industrial Drive, Jacksonville, the facility will have the annual capacity to presort more than 40 million pieces of First-Class™ letter mail and Standard-Mail® in its first year of operation. The 40,000-square-foot center will employ approximately 30 people by the end of 2010.

“Our new facility in Jacksonville will serve as an important gateway for Pitney Bowes to offer Florida customers convenient, one-stop presorting of their mail to help optimize deliverability and reduce postage costs,” said Jay Oxton, president, Presort Services, Pitney Bowes. “We are thrilled to join the Jacksonville business community and look forward to working with area customers to meet their mail presorting needs.”

As the nation’s leading mail presorter, Pitney Bowes enables customers to receive significant postage discounts on First-Class™ letters and flats, and Standard Mail®. Pitney Bowes currently handles 14 billion pieces of mail per year through its 37 facilities across the United States.

via New Pitney Bowes Mail Presort Facility to Open in Jacksonville, Florida | Pitney Bowes Newsroom.

STAMFORD, Conn., April 19, 2010 – Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced that it is expanding its collaboration with RISO, Inc., a leader in digital inkjet printing technology, to offer RISO’s ComColor series of full-color inkjet printers to U.S. customers. The ComColor series complements Pitney Bowes’s suite of mail management software, working with a broad array of the company’s products for a complete “print-to-mail” solution in a cut-sheet environment.

The ComColor series helps organizations add value to existing documents by managing the transition from printing in black and white to color. The series is ideal for mid- and high-volume mailers printing transactional or transpromotional documents such as invoices, promotional flyers, postcards, and direct mail.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 12, 2010 – Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE: PBI) today launched a new series of customer communications solutions in the U.S. to help organizations deliver more powerful and profitable messages. Among many other new features, the Connect+™ Customer Communications Series enables mailers to print high-resolution graphics and messages in color or black on the outside of the envelope. The print technology was developed as a strategic collaboration with HP. Read the rest of this entry »

Pitney Bowes Inc. announced today it will unveil its newest mid-range mail and customer communications solutions at the 2010 National Postal Forum. The Forum runs from April 11-14 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tennessee. Pitney Bowes will exhibit at Booth #250.

Full story: Postal Updates Blog.

According to the Stamford Advocate:

Stamford-based Pitney Bowes Inc., the world's largest maker of postal meters, said U.S. mail volumes have remained "relatively steady" as individuals send fewer letters and packages.

Business and direct-marketing mail has grown, offsetting a 4 percent decline in first-class mail, Chief Executive Officer Murray Martin said at an investor conference in New York Wednesday. Electronic mail, including digital versions of bills and financial statements, hasn't hurt volume, he said.

"The segments we participate in have had steady to growing mail volumes," Martin said. "Electronic solutions are still a very, very low percentage."

Martin said he expects the U.S. mailing business to rebound next year from declines this year as equipment leases come up for renewal.

The company issued the following press release:

Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) told an audience of financial analysts and institutional investors today that its diversification strategies have brought significant benefits to both customers and investors. The company also provided fresh perspectives on growth plans for its major lines of business worldwide.

In his remarks, President and CEO Murray Martin noted that the company has changed in several significant ways in recent years, citing especially a geographic expansion that has nearly tripled international revenues since 2000, and an expansion of products and services beyond Pitney Bowes’s core mailing business that has enabled a much richer suite of offerings to customers.

“Our systematic expansion beyond our historic niche of mail evidencing enables us to meet more of the customer’s end-to-end needs,” Martin said. “This keeps the customer connected on topics that matter to them and helps Pitney Bowes build longer-term relationships.”

Martin noted that the addition of several new and rapidly-growing lines of business through acquisition has reduced mail and related hardware to just 54% of total annual revenues, down from 75% just seven years ago. “Our focus of delivering value has evolved from office equipment to mail, from mail to mailstream, and now from mailstream to connections with customers around what matters in the mailstream,” Martin said.

Chief Financial Officer Mike Monahan provided a detailed review of the company’s operating units and their long-term potential for revenue and profitability. Taken together, Monahan said, the company is positioned to deliver a total return to shareholders of 11-13% per year. This estimate assumes an organic revenue growth rate of 3-5%, improved operating profit margins, continued share repurchases, and a dividend yield of approximately 3%, which is close to Pitney Bowes’s long-term historical average.

In addition to the presentations from Martin and Monahan, the company provided demonstrations of many of the new technologies and services it offers. These included location intelligence software that assists marketers in a range of industries make more informed decisions; new systems that add customized marketing messages to bills and statements; and services that help companies take advantage of the rich trove of information provided by the U.S. Postal Service’s Intelligent Mail® barcode.