Stamford, Conn.-based Pitney Bowes announced Thursday it had acquired Skymail International to strengthen its Presort Services network in the Salt Lake City Valley and throughout the West.
Skymail, a full-service print and mail house based in Salt Lake City, Utah, will provide the company with assets that will help Pitney Bowes be part of a regional mail exchange. The exchange is anchored by the company’s first Presort Services Mega Center in Las Vegas, Nev., which opened earlier this year.
“Pitney Bowes is always looking for better ways to serve our clients and improve the performance of our national Presort Services network through both innovation and strategic expansion,” Debbie Pfeiffer, president, Pitney Bowes Presort Services, said. “The addition of a Presort Services operating center in the Salt Lake City Valley, which will connect seamlessly to our Las Vegas Mega Center, will make our Northwest mail exchange more resilient and more convenient for new and existing clients.”
The acquisition closed on Oct. 9 and is expected to add more than 100 million pieces of first class mail to the Pitney Bowes Presort Services Network. The new facility will make drop-offs and pick-ups easier for Pitney Bowes clients. Skymail will become a client of Pitney Bowes for presort services, but will continue to operate its printing, mail inserting and international mailing business.
The new location is the furthest expansion of the company’s presort services in the west since the opening of its 175,000-square foot Mega Center, which began processing letters in February. That facility now serves mail volumes from Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and the Pacific Northwest.