The USPS® announced promotions for 2019 and released the following Industry Alert on October 22, 2018: The Postal Service Governors have decided to move forward with the 2019 Mailing Promotions which are listed below and were filed with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) on October 10th, 2018.  Implementation of the promotions is contingent on approval… Read: USPS Industry Alert: 2019 Mailing Promotions »

On October 17, the President announced his intentions to withdraw from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and adopt self-declared rates for terminal dues, no later than January 1, 2020. For more details of the actual announcement, please check out this statement from the Press Secretary. The Universal Postal Union, established in 1874, sets fees that… Read: President Trump Announces Intentions to Withdraw from the Universal Postal Union »

On October 10, 2018, the Postal Service™ announced their intent to raise both Market Dominant and Competitive Products prices effective January 27, 2019. The mailing industry had anticipated a mid-October filing but expected a rather plain-vanilla proposal since the recently confirmed Governors had little time to review the proposed rates. Unfortunately, some mailers will see… Read: USPS Files for Market Dominant and Competitive Product Price Changes – Many Mailers Caught by Surprise »

Many of us in the print and mail industry follow the updates from the United States Postal Service® (USPS®) like some stock brokers track the Dow Jones. This is because postage costs, and the programs offered by the USPS that affect them, can significantly change a printers  or mailers operational plan. And due to the… Read: Workflow & Postal Software Will Drive Two Percent or Greater Savings in 2019 »

BCC Software has recently upgraded the job transport method to continue to meet today’s security standards. BCC Mail Manager™ products now have the ability to use HTTPS protocol for sending and receiving Data Marketing Services jobs, making your security audits and discussions with customers that much easier – and keeping valuable data safe at the same… Read: Announcing Secure Transport for BCC Mail Manager™ Products »

This time of year, getting catalogs and promotions out to as many holiday shoppers as possible becomes a goal for many mailers, which is why the holiday season brings a focus on quantity mailings. There are many processes to implement for these mailings, but often the simplest is Simplified, or EDDM®, which stands for Every… Read: ‘Tis the Season for Holiday Mail »

It may be hard to believe, but it’s already November. Election campaign mailings are winding down and right around the bend there’s Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Hanukkah, to name a few holidays on the horizon, all bringing their fair share of direct mail. To top it off, staff will inevitably… Read: The Holiday Rush is Coming. Are You Ready? »

BCC Software is pleased to announce that as of today customers with a COMPLIANCE+™ subscription are able to run NCOALink® processing only. To do so, however, you will need to have installed both the full release of BCC Mail Manager™ for October 2018, as well as the web update from October 25. Why wait? Upgrade… Read: Update: You Can Now Utilize NCOALink Only with COMPLIANCE+™ »