QUAD CO-MAIL: ADVANCEMENTS THAT DELIVER UNSURPASSED SAVINGS

Our technology advancements and industry leadership offer you the greatest possible postal savings.

Since inventing co-mailing almost three decades ago, Quad has led the industry at every step of the evolution of this postage-saving process. Today, we continue to do more co-mailing than anyone else. We also have more co-mail resources and programs and the only true corporate program operating on the largest platform in the industry. What does all of this mean to you? You take home the greatest possible postal savings, mailing after mailing.

Co-mailing involves merging mailstreams of several different titles to create one large mailstream, with all the pieces sorted and bundled in specific order. The postal service offers significant discounts for this sorting and bundling because it means less handling by the postal service. Once in a large-volume mailstream, you can expect additional savings through drop shipping, which utilizes special palletization to transport your mailpieces as close to their final destination as possible.

Thanks to economies of scale, robust file management and custom-built equipment, Quad/Graphics’ co-mail program gives you many options to get valuable postal discounts without jeopardizing versioning and messaging to achieve your marketing goals.

Volume

Volume is critical to savings and we have it. Quad operates the largest co-mail program in the industry. For example, our average pool size for multi-mail Periodicals is between 5 and 6 million copies. When you factor in Standard mail, we co-mail more than 2 billion books annually; an average of more than 38 million per week. With one platform and one process, we have redundancy of equipment across all plants so your schedule is never at risk. We have committed over $60 million in people, equipment and software to continue growing our program.

Experience + Continuous Evolution

We have three decades of experience in co-mail, much of it running on systems and machines that we designed and built. As the co-mail leaders, Quad/Graphics continually improves the co-mail process and immediately passes along the benefits of each innovation to our clients while the rest of the industry tries to catch up.

Complexity Made Easy

Quad's exclusive segment optimization software is the key to managing complexity. It takes the guesswork out of determining the most efficient version combinations, which in turn results in maximum postal savings. For example, for our multi-mail Periodicals program, our segment optimization allows us to offer:
• Minimum quantities as low as 1,000 books
• No maximum on the number of versions allowed
• Back issues can multi-mail as well
• Three addressing options (direct inkjet, paper label, releasable label)

We Organize and Manage Your Co-mailing

Our co-mail team manages the complete co-mail process – including coordinating co-mail partners, data and scheduling – across all our plants to maximize volume and opportunity for our clients every week. We organize your co-mailing and take care of all the details so you don’t have to.

Innovation

Quad/Graphics is ranked as a top patent innovator by The Wall Street Journal; the only printer to achieve this award. We hold more than one dozen patents on the technologies and techniques that support all forms of co-mail. This exclusive technology allows Quad/Graphics to co-mail various trim sizes and thicknesses together without requiring changes to be made.

Deep Drop Shipping

Quad/Graphics’ comprehensive drop-ship program has long consolidated clients’ mail to deliver greater volumes deeper into the postal system and maximize postal discounts. Our national distribution platform (including our company-owned and managed fleet of trucks) adds bonus value to co-mail participants by drop shipping magazines closer to their delivery destinations. In addition to greater postal savings and on-time delivery, your pieces arrive in better condition with less handling by the postal service.

Co-mailing not only helps reduce your postage costs today – but tomorrow as well. Consolidating mail reduces the number of containers required for distribution. Minimizing the number of containers maximizes shipping loads.