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Associations

Association Process before I/O

Association sends out almost 10,000 Annual Membership Renewals each fall in multiple cycles. Expensive Data-Mailers ordered 4-6 weeks in advance. Data Processing makes necessary programming changes. DP begins print process which includes pre and post print functions. Data Processing staff burst, trim and delivers to the Mail. This process takes typically two days to complete and required heavy staff support and time. Postage costs for Data-Membership-Mailers range from the $.322 Pre-Sort rate up to $.340.

 





Process with Information Outsourcing

I/O lowered postage cost to $.255 for over 80% of the mail and eliminated returns by screening address database with Postal verification software. Readablity improved due to laser imaging and enhanced graphics. I/O dails up and retrieves Associations data. No more pre-print processing and time consuming program changes. Post print Mailer handling is elminiated. Cycle turnaround is cut to 24 hours. Inventories and storage & handling of Membership mailers are no longer required. Significant savings have been realized in printing, post print and mailroom functions, which are no longer required. Special Messaging to individuals is easy to accomplish.

 

FEATURES

Postage Rates

CASS and PAVE database certifications included with all outsourcing, will significantly increase the Deliverability of your mail and provide discounts for Automated Processing. Taking advantage of the new postal processing guides can yield up to 8.2 a unit.

Staff Costs

Printing, Bursting, Sorting, Stuffing and Mailing is not the best use of your staff, Savings realized with outsource will vary based on how you allocate Data Processing and Mailroom Staff expense.

Processing

Drop Box, OCR coding and basic tools to enhance cash management, reducing activity fees and processing time.

Inserts

Discretionary inserting, based on your criteria, weight, type of account, piece under or over an ounce, just let us know.


Application Enhancements

We have an unlimited capability to design custom readable formats for any type of communications with little expense and quickly. Special Messaging can be easily incorporated for most variable communications.

  • Optional CD-Rom or Electronic and Floppy backup.
  • Duplex Printing.
  • Multiple type styles and sizes.
  • Graphic enhancements with no additional expenses.
  • Discretionary messaging and inserting

Frequency

Our clients utilize us daily, weekly or monthly, information goes out within 24 hours of receipt, with total control.

Supplies

Your Associate communication including envelopes and inserts are areas where savings will also accrue.

  Class Action
Processing and Settlement
Logistics

In a recent Class Action Settlement involving over 35,000 claimants, out I/O services provided all the logistics for disbursement of proceeds, reconciliation and all actions associated with final closure:
 

  • Designed and Produced Security Checks and Window Envelopes,
  • Produced all settlement letters individually addressed,
  • Micr printed all Settlement Checks on our Laser systems,
  • Created check register system that acted to close each case as the individual settlement check were cashed,
  • Using the latest in Postal technology inserted and mailed each set at the lowest First Class rate.

Our I/O function produced significant cost savings at each step of the case and enabled this legal team to maintain control and realize large cost savings.

PGI Information Outsourcing is your ideal partner in managing
class action suits. We work with the highest degree of Confidentiality
and Control.

PGI I/O functions as your Back Office: Designing and Printing all
Communications and Special Messages, quickly - with total control,
and Mailing each at the highest automated processing discounts of
the US Postal Service.

Special Features:

  • Special Graphics Design enhancements to help highlight special points.
  • Customization of Output and Control Reports.
  • Distribution Checks Tracked by Participant.
  • Laser Quality and Duplex Printing.
  • Discretionary Inserting, based on your Criteria.
  • Document Automation.

Eliminates logistics of ordering and then having to store forms, paper stocks, envelopes and all necessary supplies. No more problems in coordinating.

Frequency of communication or distributions no longer becomes an issue
with I/O ability to process and mail daily, weekly, or monthly.
 

What PGI Information OutSourcing Offers is: Success in an intensely
competitive environment, with savings in Staff and Administration costs,
Lower Paper stock and Supply costs, and Quicker Turnarounds and
Postal Savings.

College Confirmation Mailer

College Process Before I/O

College sends out almost 30,000 Confirmation Mailers each fall and spring sessions in multiple cycles. Expensive Data-Mailers ordered 4-6 weeks in advance. Parking permits and Hangers ordered 3-4 weeks in advance. Data processing makes programming changes. DP begins print process which includes pre and post print funcitons. Data Processing staff burst, sort, trim, and delivers to the Mail. This process takes typically three days to complete and requires heavy staff support and time. Postage costs for Mailers range from the $.322 Pre-Sort rate up to $.340.






Process with Information Outsourcing

I/O lowered postage cost to $.255 for over 80% of the mail and eliminated returns by screening address database with Postal verification software. Readability improved due to laster imaging and enhanced graphics. I/O dials up and retrieves student data. No more pre-print processing and time consuming programming changes. Post print Mailer handling is elminated. Cycle turnaround time is cut to 24 hours. Inventories and storage & handling Mailers and supplies are no longer required. Significant savings have been realized in printing, post print and mail room functions which are no longer required. Special process features include: Automatic insertion of Parking Permits, Hangers and Cards, and Special Messaging to individual students.

FEATURES

Postage Rates

CASS and PAVE database certifications included with all outsourcing, will significantly increase the Deliverability of your mail and provide discounts for Automated Processing. Taking advantage of the new postal processing guides can yield up to 8.2 a unit.

Staff Costs

Printing, Bursting, Sorting, Stuffing and Mailing is not the best use of your staff, Savings realized with outsource will vary based on how you allocate Data Processing and Mailroom Staff expense.

Processing

Drop Box, OCR coding and basic tools to enhance cash management, reducing activity fees and processing time.

Inserts

Discretionary inserting, based on your criteria, weight, type of account, piece under or over an ounce, just let us know.


Application Enhancements

We have an unlimited capability to design custom readable formats for any type of college communications with little expense and quickly. Special Messaging can be easily incorporated for most variable communications.

  • Optional CD-Rom or Electronic and Floppy backup.
  • Duplex Printing.
  • Multiple type styles and sizes.
  • Graphic enhancements with no additional expenses.
  • Discretionary messaging and inserting

Frequency

Our clients utilize us daily, weekly or monthly, information goes out within 24 hours of receipt, with total control.

Supplies

Forms, Envelopes - Outgoing & Return, and other Inserts are areas savings with also accrue.

Financial Processing Company

Company's Process Before I/O

Serves a national market with an average new account volume of 30,000 per month. Begins each new account with a packet of instructions and coupon payment book. It took 6 weeks for an order of payment books to arrive. One full time person matched up and stuffed the notice letter, instructions and the coupon books. Each carried a full $.34 in postage. Dataprocessing required 2 hours to batch the new accounts.





 


 

Process with Information Outsourcing

Today, the company sends about 1500 new accounts daily to I/O for processing. With a midnight cut-off, each new account is sent out the complete package before close of the following business day. I/O process and prints the introduction letter and the payment coupons in one pass. Now the coupons are in sheets of 3 on a page. All are coded for OCR scanning to improve the payment process. Because of the geographic area of distribution, the postage has decreased to $.269 and the client saves Processing time and frees up one person.

 

FEATURES

Postage Rates

CASS and PAVE database certifications included with all outsourcing, will significantly increase the Deliverability of your mail and provide discounts for Automated Processing. Taking advantage of the new postal processing guides can yield up to 8.2 a unit.

Staff Costs

Printing, Bursting, Sorting, Stuffing and Mailing is not the best use of your staff, Savings realized with outsource will vary based on how you allocate Data Processing and Mailroom Staff expense.

Processing

Drop Box, OCR coding and basic tools to enhance cash management, reducing activity fees and processing time.

Inserts

Discretionary inserting, based on your criteria, weight, type of account, piece under or over an ounce, just let us know.
 


 

Application Enhancements

We have an unlimited capability to design custom readable formats for any type of communications with little expense and quickly. Special Messaging can be easily incorporated for most variable communications.

  • Optional CD-Rom or Electronic and Floppy backup.
  • Duplex Printing.
  • Multiple type styles and sizes.
  • Graphic enhancements with no additional expenses.
  • Discretionary messaging and inserting

Frequency

Our clients utilize us daily, weekly or monthly, information goes out within 24 hours of receipt, with total control.

Supplies

Forms, Envelopes - Outgoing & Return, and other Inserts are areas savings with also accrue.
 

Fuel Distribution Company

Statement Process Before I/O

Client sends out 35,00 two part computer statement forms each month. Included with each statement was support detail for all fueling by user class on individual sheets. The statements and detail sheets required twelve hours to print. Four temporaries worked for several days to sort, match, fold and stuff each set. Almost all required $.34 in postage, some went out at higher rates due to multiple support sheets exceeding one ounce.


 

Process with Information Outsourcing

Statements now require one day to process. Each set consists of a summary statement supported by a duplexed detail sheet divided into four condensed sections. Detail is now sorted in several summary fashions to aid their customer's understanding and analysis of usage in an easy to follow report format. Now 75% qualifies for postage of $.255 with the balance at $.269 and $.28.

 

FEATURES

Postage Rates

CASS and PAVE database certifications included with all outsourcing, will significantly increase the Deliverability of your mail and provide discounts for Automated Processing. Taking advantage of the new postal processing guides can yield up to 8.2 a unit.

Staff Costs

Printing, Bursting, Sorting, Stuffing and Mailing is not the best use of your staff, Savings realized with outsource will vary based on how you allocate Data Processing and Mailroom Staff expense.

Processing

Drop Box, OCR coding and basic tools to enhance cash management, reducing activity fees and processing time.

Inserts

Discretionary inserting, based on your criteria, weight, type of account, piece under or over an ounce, just let us know.
 


 

Application Enhancements

We have an unlimited capability to design custom readable formats for any type of communications with little expense and quickly. Special Messaging can be easily incorporated for most variable communications.

  • Optional CD-Rom or Electronic and Floppy backup.
  • Duplex Printing.
  • Multiple type styles and sizes.
  • Graphic enhancements with no additional expenses.
  • Discretionary messaging and inserting

Frequency

Our clients utilize us daily, weekly or monthly, information goes out within 24 hours of receipt, with total control.

Supplies

Forms, Envelopes - Outgoing & Return, and other Inserts are areas savings with also accrue.

Waste Management Company

Company's Process Before I/O

Serves a defined community market and sends out 5,000 data mailers as monthly statements. These 6 part mailers are difficult to print, decollate, burst and difficult for its customers to read. It requires 2 people for 2 days each month to print and process for mailing. The mailer is also realtively expensive. Although the statements cannot be easily printed in zip sort order, pre-sort house completes the process. Postage costs $.322 each after a $.01 fee by the mail House. Total time to print, process and mail is 4 days.
 


 

Process with Information Outsourcing

I/O lowered postage cost to $.255 for 80% of the mail and eliminated all returns by screening their address database with an NCOA verification software. Read-ability improved due to laser imaging and enhanced graphics. Dataprocessing saved pre-print processing and print time. Time to turnaround each month's statements is now one and a half days. Client no longer has to contend with high inventories of an expensive mailer with a six week lead time to produce.
 

FEATURES

Postage Rates

CASS and PAVE database certifications included with all outsourcing, will significantly increase the Deliverability of your mail and provide discounts for Automated Processing. Taking advantage of the new postal processing guides can yield up to 8.2 a unit.

Staff Costs

Printing, Bursting, Sorting, Stuffing and Mailing is not the best use of your staff, Savings realized with outsource will vary based on how you allocate Data Processing and Mailroom Staff expense.

Processing

Drop Box, OCR coding and basic tools to enhance cash management, reducing activity fees and processing time.

Inserts

Discretionary inserting, based on your criteria, weight, type of account, piece under or over an ounce, just let us know.
 


 

Application Enhancements

We have an unlimited capability to design custom readable formats for any type of communications with little expense and quickly. Special Messaging can be easily incorporated for most variable communications.

  • Optional CD-Rom or Electronic and Floppy backup.
  • Duplex Printing.
  • Multiple type styles and sizes.
  • Graphic enhancements with no additional expenses.
  • Discretionary messaging and inserting

Frequency

Our clients utilize us daily, weekly or monthly, information goes out within 24 hours of receipt, with total control.

Supplies

Forms, Envelopes - Outgoing & Return, and other Inserts are areas savings with also accrue.
 

 
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