Most organizations lack access to their total equipment and postage expenses. If they have any information, it is from an occasional vendor spreadsheets, cryptic invoices, or online data; all of which lack detail.
The good news is that the Office of Inspector General provided the statistics that I was unable to obtain through multiple Freedom of Information Act requests.
This is an update to an article I published in 2012 that I thought is more relevant today with the mandatory USPS IMPB Package Barcode requirement for Priority and Express Mail coming in January 2015 that can increase costs by 7-78%.
What is always surprising when we take on new clients, is the lack of information they have about their mailing spends that can lead to bad decisions and higher prices.
Incoming tracking systems can offer tremendous value to mail operations because they give complete accountability to your packages, overnights or additional items that need to be tracked.
As the only mail audit and recovery firm in the US and Canada, we manage a portfolio of over 174,000 pieces of mailing and shipping eqipment for the largest US companies.