{"id":44847,"date":"2016-03-26T05:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/?p=44847"},"modified":"2016-03-26T06:25:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T10:25:45","slug":"pitney-bowes-gauges-new-path-away-from-mass-mailings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.21cpw.com\/pitney-bowes-gauges-new-path-away-from-mass-mailings\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitney Bowes Gauges New Path Away From Mass Mailings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pitney Bowes, maker of postage meters, is making a shift to e-commerce as traditional mass mailing wanes<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

By Brian Baskin – March 25, 2016<\/strong>
\nPitney Bowes<\/a><\/span> Inc.\u2019s postage meters have been fixtures in mailrooms around the world for most of the past century\u2014and that\u2019s a problem for the company.<\/p>\n

The business sells or leases its machines, which weigh and stamp envelopes at high speeds, along with other mailing services to some 1.5 million customers world-wide, including about 90% of Fortune 500 companies. Three out of every four postage meters in the U.S. are made by Pitney Bowes, the company said. But postage meters are a tougher sell these days as banking, billing, advertising and just about everything companies used to send by mail goes online.<\/p>\n

Sales at Pitney Bowes have fallen in four of the last five years, to $3.6 billion in 2015.<\/p>\n

Over the last decade, U.S. Postal Service mail volume has declined by 48.5 billion items to 154.2 billion last year, and Pitney Bowes shares were down more than 40% over that period.<\/p>\n

A revival in the mass-mailing business appears unlikely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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More \/ Source: Pitney Bowes Gauges New Path Away From Mass Mailings – WSJ<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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By Brian Baskin – March 25, 2016 Pitney Bowes Inc.\u2019s postage meters have been fixtures in mailrooms around the world for most of the past century\u2014and that\u2019s a problem for the company. The business sells or leases its machines, which weigh and stamp envelopes at high speeds, along with other mailing services to some 1.5…<\/p>\n

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