Stronger Than Ever
P&D uses address cleansing software to identify bad addresses before pieces are even printed. Mail is presorted by zip code to get a better rate. With 60,000 pieces of mail leaving the Columbia facility daily, the savings add up to more than $1 million a year.
Wright says volume trends for 2008 are up about 6 percent over last year—and 2007 figures were already impressive. Columbia’s operation produced 192,354,937 pages of marketing materials, policy booklets, letters, forms, statements and checks; Chattanooga printed 43,647,303; Portland output 12,113,854; and a small, two-person print operation in Worcester, Mass., part of the mail services area, contributed another 1,425,995 pages, for a grand total of 249,542,089 pages. Total mail pieces were about 23.6 million. Wright says P&D handles three times more work today than the Colonial Life in-plant did back in 1994.
Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.
