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| Student Survey Results: In 1976 the postal service issued a report that predicted electronic media would decrease physical mail delivery. Thirty-five years later that prediction has proven correct, but will physical mail delivery ever completely go away? Read the article Green Mail - Colleges and universities across the country are increasingly concerned about how to become "greener." Read the article Waste Free Mail - At colleges and universities around the country, green is in, and all forms of waste are out. As part of a broad commitment toward responsible environmental stewardship, academic institutions around the country are funding capital projects and community-directed initiatives designed to decrease waste. Read the article Best In-Class Innovation Award – USPS honored IMN with the prestigious Innovation Award for its innovative use of technologies and automation within the college and university sector to increase mail center productivity and mail deliverability. Read the article Return to Sender Trash - Mail Services Address Hygiene Is the Key to Obtaining the Highest Level of Sustainability. Read the article Waste Reduction in Harvard's MCB Mailroom - Jack Conlin, Group Leader at FAS's Molecular & Cellular Biology department mailroom, began working to reduce paper waste from mailings years ago, but it was only recently that he realized that he could team up with the Office for Sustainability and with Intra-Mail Network (IMN) to help vendors to stop sending bulky catalogues to people who had long ago left the university. Read the article |
