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The Corvallis Chamber of Commerce enjoys the convenience of email.
Patricia Mulder-Corvallis Chamber of Commerce
We have a thing called "Just the Facts" which is an update on city policy . We put that out every Friday afternoon. We used to do it on a fax line. It took a weekend for the computer to churn this stuff out. We could only do it on Friday's because it took so long. And it resulted in paper on the other end. Now we do almost two-thirds of it by email and we're hoping to be completely electronic on it very, very soon. We can put it out anytime we want. If there's a breaking issue we can be on top of that. It's cheaper. It's faster. And everybody's happier. We really believe in email.
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Mentor Graphics also reduced the amount of mail their staff had to handle and helped save resources for its vendors.
Kristen Beach-Mentor Graphics
Like every large corporation we have our share of employee turnover. We still receive mail for employees who are no longer here. We used to have buckets and buckets of mail. But now every two weeks we have about 150 pieces. We achieved this by taking the mail for the employees who are no longer here sending it back to the original sender with a stamp saying…please remove this person from your mailing list they are no longer with our company. This has drastically reduced the amount of mail that has ends up in our mail room.
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The Detlefsen Law office saves paper handling by using a fax stamp instead of a cover page.
Jeff Detlefsen-Detlefsen Law Office
For many documents we'll have a fax cover sheet which is a whole other piece of paper. But we found by using a stamp that we could just stamp the front page of the document that we were faxing and reduce a piece of paper to go out in the fax machine.
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Using a web site to communicate with customers, investors and clients can save paper and staff time, while making information more accessible.
Kristen Beach-Mentor Graphics
This is our annual report now with it being on the web we saving in printing, shipping and handling costs. It's easier for share holders to have access to us and for prospect shareholders to research our company.
 Patricia Mulder-Corvallis Chamber of Commerce
One of the things Chambers do is they put out relocation boxes for folks who are interested in moving to their city. Our box costs us about six dollars to mail it. It's bulky. It's got a lot of paper in it. It takes up a lot of storage space here on site…keeping a stock of them on. We've instituted a new relocation web site that will be up an running the end of January 2001 which should answer most of the needs of people interested in relocating. It'll save us six dollars per mailing. And tremendous amounts of time. In addition people on the other end who are interested in relocating to Corvallis Oregon can hop on the web site and get most of their information today rather than waiting for the mail. They're happy and we're happy.
Norm Thompson Shipping/Receiver Worker
We're in the shipping and receiving department of Norm Thompson Early Winters and Solutions where the vendors send their product in to be put in our catalog. We have the boxes that come in with item inside them wrapped nice and neat so they don't get broken. We have paper…then the item is actually wrapped in bubble wrap. And we have packaging peanuts in the bottom to protect it. All of these items are recycled and reused by us and other people in the area.
We'll bring'em over here. The paper goes into the round file. The bubble wrap goes in here. And then the packaging peanuts are dumped into a box with a plastic liner. And when it's full we remove that and we send this to a pottery shop in Portland Oregon where they send their pottery back out with the peanuts. The boxes are broken down and put into a container that's taken outside and the recycled. And we have the program where we actually take the item and send it back to the vendor using the same packaging materials that's left over…the paper mainly. We don't like to send this back. And the bubble wrap.. we send to the Epson company over here and they reuse it.
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