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16 November 2005 - DPS Direct Mail acquired by Stralfors UK.
DPS Direct Mail has been acquired by leading international IT logistics company, Stralfors UK. It’s a strategic move for both organisations and together we can offer you a broader range of services to support your direct marketing and customer communication programmes.
Stralfors UK is best known for providing information management and marketing logistics solutions to a wide range of companies including Camelot, The National Blood Service and DVLA. It’s part of the Stralfors Group, a £250 million turnover company, with operations in twelve European countries.
As a result, DPS will now be able to bring you dynamic transactional customer communications, loyalty marketing and graphical information solutions together with our existing high quality marketing-led print, data processing and fulfilment services.
On the surface, you may not see any immediate changes; Grant Bloomfield will remain as managing director and we will still trade as DPS Direct Mail.
We are committed to retaining a consistent high level of service to our clients and your business will be looked after by the same account manager as usual.
Of course, over time, we look forward to introducing you to a new range of complementary services and the additional resources now available to us through Stralfors will provide significant operational benefits in terms of speed and capacity too.
January 2005 - DPS Recruits Experienced Account Manager
Gina Doolin joined DPS from Lewis Direct Mail at the start of the year. With significant experience of production procedures and processes gained over the past 10 years at companies such as Pims, Gina is already managing accounts with the style and aplomb that gives DPS such a strong reputation for getting the job done right and on time.
December 2004 - Further Investment in Digital Print
DPS have installed the first Kodak 9150E in the UK, extending the flexibility of their laser print offering. The Kodak excels in printing matt and art stocks, often as heavy as 300gsm. Grant Bloomfield comments “Our strategy has always been avoid having to restrict our clients’ creative objectives. With its paper handling ability and the flexibility to accept stock from 180x210mm up to 457x356mm and any size graduation in-between, the Kodak is an ideal complement to our existing range of personalisation equipment.”
November 2004 - cygnus Wins Commendations at SMART and Triangle Awards
cygnus, developed by DPS subsidiary IequalsP was highly rated in two of the industries most prestigious awards ceremonies. Known for its ease of use and ability to process almost any data presented to it, cygnus continues to go from strength to strength with a rapidly increasing user base and a new releases slated to coincide with the TFM show in February 2005. For more information go to: www.bureauinabox.com
17 May 2004 - Revised delivery instructions to DPS.
At long last we’ve secured and moved into an adjacent unit to our main facility in Lagoon Road. This will be used for storage and goods in/out with effect from Monday 17th May 2004.
Details are as follows:
DPS Direct Mail Ltd.
Unit 5A
Lagoon Road
Orpington
Kent
BR5 3QX
Delivery Hours
8:00am to 5:00pm (unless by prior arrangement)
Booking-In
In an effort to ensure that we are able to handle your delivery as efficiently as possible, we are maintaining our Booking-in System.
Please telephone Diane Stephens or Troy Pender on 01689 839254 to advise the date and time of your deliveries. Booking in should be completed at least 24 hours in advance.
Delivery Notes & Material Packaging
Deliveries to DPS must be accompanied by a detailed Delivery Note, showing Item codes, description, pallet/box counts and item counts for all materials. All forms for cut sheet personalisation must be boxed and palletised to ensure the stock is not damaged in transit and storage.
Maximum and Minimum Pallet dimensions are as follows:
- Maximum height of pallets
- 1300 mm high
- Maximum pallet size
- 1000 mm wide x 1200 mm long
- Minimum pallet size
- 800 mm wide x 1200 mm long
For a full delivery specification, please contact your account manager.
The unit has been fitted out to store up to 1,400 pallets of material but of course we'd ask that you do keep on top of overs and ensure that we don't hold stock un-necessarily.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact your account handler on 01689 835353.
23 March 2004 - Royal Mail Postal Tariff Changes 1st April 2004.
Don’t forget that next Thursday April 1st, sees the implementation of Royal Mail’s tariff increase. This specifically affects second class Standard Tariff items which increase by 1 pence to 21 pence per item at the base rate and Mailsort price structures across all service levels.
You don’t need to take any specific action but do be aware that some of your budgeted postage costs will change. DPS have already updated their Mailsort calculation tables so if you have a campaign planned that’s due for release on or after April 1st, we’ve allowed for the tariff changes.
If you want to know more go to www.royalmail.com click on Customer News and click again on Postal Prices. This will take you to the Tariff Change information section. Alternatively, your DPS Account Manager or Sales Contact will be pleased to help.
6 November 2003 - DPS are delighted to announce the commissioning of their new Heidelberg 9150 laser printer.
Managing Director Grant Bloomfield says "As committed Xerox users of many years standing, the decision to install the Heidelberg was not taken lightly. However we were impressed by its ability to handle a far broader range of materials than is the norm and our strategy has always been to offer a flexible range of services. We simply hate saying 'It can't be done' and the 9150 will help us ensure that we stay ahead of the pack."
The Heidelberg is great at coping with coated papers that you would normally struggle to print on a Xerox. Its specification is as follows:
· 9,000 A4 sheets per hour
· 70-250gsm
· Sizes from undersized A4 to 432 x 357mm
· Matt, silk and art stocks
· 6 input bins for different pre-print
· In-line stitching
Call us today to find out more about how DPS can help you sharpen your competitive edge.
22 October 2003 - cygnus wins Commendation at SMART Awards
At last nights prestigious Direct Response SMART Awards, DPS's cygnus software was voted as Runner Up in the category of Best Address Management software.
cygnus® is a cutting edge data processing software solution. Developed by highly experienced IT experts at DPS Direct Mail, it provides the industry with an easy to use, intuitive solution which is fast revolutionising the data processing arena.
An increasing number of agencies and clients are data-centric in their approach to campaign planning. Profiling, segmentation and analysis techniques are all embraced to fine-tune the targeting process. Yet, when it comes to data processing, they have no choice but to delegate the procedure to bureau staff with the technical know-how, but who are often too distanced from the client to understand their marketing objectives or the nuances of their specific marketplace. cygnus solves this dilemma.
New for 2003
Developers ToolKit: Providing access to cygnus's powerful parsing techniques for use within external software. Applications include online data capture, web download data cleansing and CRM upload parsing.
User Specified Process: Implemented via a DLL, this enables a user to incorporate processes into a job written by other third parties creating a bespoke and limitless dp solution.
Suppression via all industry suppression files including USS (new Royal Mail Universal Suppression Service), BSF and Baby MPS
27 June 2003 - Royal Mail appoints DPS, as Reseller for Universal Suppression Service
DPS Direct Mail have recently been appointed to act as a reseller for the Royal Mail's newly launched Universal Suppression Service.
Martin Rides - Data Services Director of DPS, comments "After analysing the data sources and quality of the USS data-set, we have identified
this file as being a cost effective solution to goneaway suppression. Using core data including Royal Mail's redirection data (NCOA) and qualified
goneaway information, USS allows us to intelligently reduce client royalty costs for goneaway suppression. The addition of USS to our suppression portfolio
now brings our total suppression bank to 50,000,000+ records."
27 June 2003 - Mailsort 120 Accreditation Completes UK Sort Portfolio
Following Royal Mail's postage pricing restructure on 8th May 2003, DPS identified that under the new pricing many clients would benefit
from using Mailsort 120, either in addition to, or as a replacement for the more standard Mailsort 1400 service. Within 4 weeks, DPS have not
only achieved software accreditation, but have also migrated a number of clients to Mailsort 120 services, enabling our clients to benefit from
the significant cost savings.
1 November 2002 - DPS Announce Upgrade of Data Transfer Options
At DPS we believe that the security and integrity of your data is a fundamental right. To protect you and your data assets, we've therefore implemented a number of new options which will ensure that not only do you comply with the appropriate legislation, but that you do what's right. This will ensure that your data isn't mis-appropriated en route, whilst still enabling you to communicate openly with us.
Our infrastructure includes:
· A 2mb leased line connection to the internet for speedy transfer of data files
· Firewall certified to the ICSA Firewall and IPSec VPN standards
· The FTP site is located within a DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)
· Backup FTP sites located remotely on the internet
· WebDAV (Web Folders) to protect your password and encrypted data when you send information to a Web server running Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
· VPN (Virtual Private Network)
· Data Transfer Via ISDN
· Authentication methods supported include PAP, SPAP,MD5, CHAP, Mutual CHAP (Cisco Routers), MSCHAPv1 and MSCHAPv2 (Microsoft Routing and Remote Access Server).
For more technical details, please contact us directly.
