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Article: PC postage usage increasing
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- Office World News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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FRAMINGHAM, MA-The United States Postal Service gave the go ahead for PC postage in August 1999. By year end, only four months later, U.S. small businesses and home offices had already spent $8.2 million on the product, and according to market research firm IDC, they're just getting warmed up. In 2000, their annual spending will approach $300 million, and by year end 2001, it will soar past $600 million.
Despite the fact that home businesses outnumber U.S. small businesses, IDC expects small business will be responsible for the lion's share of PC postage spending because the number of small businesses moving to PC postage and the average spending per company will be greater than that of ...