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Short Takes

Excerpt from Business Mailers Review, July 2007

With mailrooms contending with an average postal increase of about 8%, Neopost President and CEO Christopher O’Brien last
week talked with reporters about how businesses can use the meter manufacturer’s technology to reduce the impact of those rate
hikes. Neopost estimates the average size customer with a mailroom staff of one spends about $12,000 per month on mailings – this
includes $4,000 in postage, $2,000 in UPS costs and another $2,000 in FedEx costs and $4,000 in labor. O’Brien and Mark Evanoff,
operational market manager for Neopost, walked through ways customers could save about $,3,300 per month, a 27.5% savings,
through a combination of improved postage accuracy, resizing and redesign of mailings, improved address hygiene, presorting, appropriate
determinations about whether to pay for next-day service, more savvy carrier selection and labor cost savings through
automation. Neopost is touting its PrintMachine Office Plus machine to optimize mailings. The company also has a
FourPoint Detection System to determine the length, width, thickness and weight of a piece in the new shape-based pricing environment.
O’Brien said the system was developed ahead of USPS’s change. Britain last year went to shaped-based pricing and Neopost developed
its system for that market.