Big, And Getting Bigger

"The print-to-presort takes place from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.," London says.

At the end of the day those 300,000 printed pages have collapsed into 70,000 mailing pieces presorted on a Böwe Bell & Howell Jet Star presorter and addressed, when necessary, by a Scitex ink-jet machine.

At this point the in-plant's on-site postal inspector goes over the mailing to make sure all the details check out. With his go-ahead, a United States Postal Service truck arrives to take the day's work and ferry it to Boston's South Postal Annex.