Association Spotlight: Association For Postal Commerce (PostCom)
For the past 75 years, the Association for Postal Commerce (PostCom) has supported mailers and organizations that rely on the postal industry for business communication and commerce. Find out how GrayHair stays connected to one of the most influential associations in the industry.
The Green Guardians Attend NJ Tree Foundation’s Annual Fall Event
The Green Guardians recently led a group of employee volunteers to attend the New Jersey Tree Foundation’s Fall Tree Planting Event, located in East Camden. The annual planting event is held in different locations across South Jersey with the help of local volunteer groups, schools, and community members.
Leading Postal Data Company Releases Redesigned USPS IMb Encoder
GrayHair Software, the leading provider of postal data tools, releases a new version of its IMb tool that allows enterprise-level mailers management over a critical element of their postal data to provide visibility and insights related to critical mail communications delivery.
GrayHair Goes Green: Company Has Joined with the Green Business Bureau for Launch of Sustainability Team
GrayHair employees recently united to launch the GrayHair Green Guardians, an environmentally-conscientious team spanning over seven different internal departments with members residing in the U.S. and overseas.
USPS Mega-center plan expected to revolutionize mail processes
During the 2022 PCC Leadership awards, the Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, provided the audience with an update on the 10-Year Delivering for America Plan. The event brought together leaders from the Postal Customer Councils to discuss critical topics like product strategy, electric vehicles, service expectations, and the introduction of the new Regional Processing Centers (aka mega-center) that are part of the USPS network realignment. You can watch the full video here to see DeJoy speak frankly about what he sees as the upcoming “transformation” of the Postal Service, how changes in the organization are a challenge, and about their success
Meet Phantom Janitor: How GrayHair’s Dev Team Optimized Their Peer Review Process
When the need presented itself for GrayHair’s Development Team to create a better peer review process, they wasted no time in building their own solution. Enter: Phantom Janitor, an in-house Slack application and the Dev Team’s go-to-ghost. The name Phantom Janitor was chosen due to its ability to integrate seamlessly into the backend of Slack while organizing the visual side of the peer review completion process. From start to finish, every action made from the initial case creation, to completion of the peer review, to the final approval of the peer review is tracked and overseen by team members
Postage Rate Increases Status Update
In less than two weeks, Postage rates will increase. Here is the latest news released about that changes On July 10th, postage rates will increase. The last postage rate increase was August 2021. This was expected as part of the Delivery for America plan. As the postmaster General stated, increased rates are needed to ensure the USPS reaches its goals. For the public, the impact will be an increase in the forever stamp. For mailers, the increase proposed averages are 6.5% for First-Class and Marketing Mail letters and 8.5% for Marketing Mail flats. While similar to the price increase
GrayHair Returns to the National Postal Forum
GrayHair had three objectives this year for the postal industry's largest trade event. The first was to see many of our clients and friends after a two-year drought. The goal was achieved as our team spent time with many of our clients and their vendors (You can check out the classic tradeshow pics on our FB page). Our next was to showcase that GrayHair not only persevered through the pandemic but prospered. In 2021, we started showcasing our Business-Ready Intelligence (BRI) Solutions and it felt great to introduce how postal data is the newfound hero beyond the mailstream. Then,
