
Welcome to this brief online overview of Catalogs America.
We hope that you find it interesting and that we have the opportunity,
at some point in the near future, to show you our facility
in person.
Since 1974, we have been working with catalogers–sharing your successes, and we hope, making some contributions along the way. Your growth has been our growth and has allowed us to keep at the forefront of the rapid and dynamic changes on our side of the partnership. We have the newest toys and we continue to invest in them to remain an efficient partner.
Over the past few years, we have seen an acceleration towards consolidation in the printing industry. This has created a few giants and left but a handful of mid-sized, privately-held companies. We are proud to be one of these. With what we see in the marketplace, we are more convinced than ever that in a service-oriented business such as ours...we hold the edge.
Thanks for your interest. We hope to see you in Gordonsville.With first-class mail slowly eroding away, the time is now to implement five-day delivery, according to Sam Pulcrano, vice president of sustainability for the U.S. Postal Service. “The dilemma we have is it’s growing and growing exponentially,” Pulcrano said during a March 29 conference call. “We really can’t do anything without legislative changes.”
The Postal Service has seen its mail volume fall 20% since 2006, and it’s expected to drop another 20 billion pieces in the next 10 years. First-class mail is expected to fall by 30 billion pieces, while modest growth is anticipated for advertising mail.
Multichannel MerchantAmerican Press in Gordonsville, Virginia has had several crews qualify for the Pacesetter Club in past years with its Pacesetter 1000 stitcher. This year, crews on all three shifts did the same with a new Pacesetter 2200 system, averaging as high as 20,875 books per hour.