Why Don’t Your Customers Have Printing Presses and Inserters?
September 26, 2018   Dave Lewis
Did you ever stuff an envelope?  It’s really not very hard – you fold whatever you’re inserting so it fits in the envelope, stuff it in, lick the flap, and seal it. Did you ever stuff 100 envelopes?  Or 1,000?  Or 100,000?  Your tongue is going to get...

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SnailWorks Informed Madness PCC Tour Ready to Roll!
August 29, 2018   Dave Lewis
The SnailWorks Team will be rolling out to a number of PCC events over the next few weeks as featured speakers on both Informed Delivery and Informed Visibility.  Check out the list and if you can make one of these events stop on by and say “Hi”....

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Telling a Story with Almost English
August 24, 2018   Dave Lewis
SnailWorks’ Visibility+™ adds new operation descriptions The building blocks of Informed Visibility are scan events.  When something happens to a piece of mail, or the container it is in, this creates a scan event.  Every scan event has an event code...

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The Business Case for Informed Delivery®
July 26, 2018   Dave Lewis
In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past year – you haven’t, have you? – Informed Delivery is the relatively new USPS program that sends grayscale pictures of a consumer’s mail to them the morning their mail is to be delivered.  Wily marketers...

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Keeping Your Trigger Finger Itchy
July 26, 2018   Dave Lewis
It has been well established that direct mail is more effective when it is coordinated with other marketing channels.  A single piece of mail is too easy to lose – forget – ignore. Reinforcing that message with another channel will virtually always improve...

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Predictive Mail Tracking
June 21, 2018   Dave Lewis
Not just “Is it there yet?”, but “When will it be there?” The benefits of mail tracking have remained largely unchanged since 1999 when the original mail tracking barcode, the PLANET code, was released.  The big selling points were anticipating – and...

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New Service Type IDs for Ballot Mail
June 21, 2018   Dave Lewis
Some things are not exciting, but important.  Then there are new Service Type ID’s (STID’s).  It’s a cork poppin’ occasion on the SnailWorks campus when the Postal Service rolls out a new STID.  On August 23, 2018, they are rolling out 23. The STID is...

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Is It Safe to Assume?
May 21, 2018   Dave Lewis
Why Flats Track So Much Better These Days Our favorite kind of customer service call these days is when a client calls and asks why their scan rates are so much higher lately.  This is one of the nicer benefits of Informed Visibility (IV), the Postal...

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Thought Leadership and Marketing
May 21, 2018   Dave Lewis
…or why you see SnailWorks so much… We spend a lot of time on the road and at the keyboard at SnailWorks.  This year we’ll speak  at more than a dozen PCC’s and the National Postal Forum, publish at least four white papers, put out a monthly newsletter,...

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The Hottest Topic in Mail: Informed Delivery – The SnailWorks Webinar
April 27, 2018   Dave Lewis
Join us on May 31, at 2:00 P.M. Eastern Time, as Dave Lewis digs into the what, why, and how’s of Informed Delivery.  Dave has literally been traveling the country speaking to audiences on how to participate in this exciting new program from USPS, including...

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