Harvey Software - Money Saving Green Shipping Efforts

"Businesses can take a lead role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution by implementing actions that save money, improve productivity, protect the environment and increase the nation's energy security. Leading companies that develop a comprehensive greenhouse gas management strategy and pursue energy efficiency and pollution prevention stand to gain a competitive edge over firms that fail to make these changes."

Harvey Software believes very strongly in this statement and the efforts of other organizations that are now seeking better ways to do business. Green concepts are not new to Harvey Software as we have always delivered high quality shipping software solutions that provide maximum efficiency, reliability, and accountability. In our efforts to continue to deliver outstanding solutions, we have re-examined our use of energy, our use of the materials used to market and deliver our products, and our impact on the environment. We are happy to say that these efforts have uncovered many areas where we have been able to greatly improve. This has in turn lowered our costs of doing business while delivering the products outlined by our mission statement. We are proud to say that today, we offer low cost shipping product that can help you practice green shipping methods along with saving you time and money like never before.

One of the first areas we worked to improve was to switch to Internet distribution of our product, marketing and documentation as quickly as possible. In December of 2006, we stopped using CDs and printed manuals. We now use total product and documentation distribution over the Internet. This has turned out to not only reduce costs of distribution and materials but has also allowed us to deliver products and updates with ease and in the greenest possible fashion. Changes like this are not only good for the company but also helps to reduce our dependence on unnecessary materials that waste energy and use oil, paper and other important resources.

But switching to Internet product distribution was only the beginning. For the past year we have also been making many company wide changes. We have decreased our use of electricity by nearly 50% by changing all of our lights, rearranging our staff for more efficiency, and upgrading to more energy efficient equipment. This has both lowered our costs and allowed us to increase our service offerings to our customers by switching to better equipment and rethinking what we do. These are areas where we are planning to continue to make changes during 2008 that should yield even greater efficiencies. We plan to fully pass our increased efficiencies and cost savings to our valued customers.

The positive results seen from our efforts in 2007 have been well supported by all that work at Harvey Software. Even some of our employees now ride bicycles and walk to work just to do their part and stay healthy at the same time. Many have been using some of the same money saving practices in their homes. Now we hope to pass along all we have done to other businesses, especially our customers. It is our plan to continue producing innovative products that will help businesses address environmental shipping issues as well as save them time and money. It is also in our plans to let our customers and community know about our success so they can take advantage of the same things. We hope as we go down this path that others become equally enthused and share their successes and ideas with us.

How does using CPS help you join other green companies and save money at the same time?

All versions of Harvey Software's Computerized Parcel System (CPS) can help you practice energy-wise smart shipping. "How" you ask? For one thing, CPS uses specialized features to automate the best way to ship your products with money saving features like RateBots™, Cut’N Ship™, BestWay™ Calculator, Flat Rate Shipping Charge Calculator, and many more. These standard features of CPS help optimize shipping methods while reducing costs.

In addition to standard features of CPS, low cost options like the Address Verification Module (AVM) will automatically correct addresses. When you ship to the wrong address you are wasting energy resources to get the package to the right location, or even worse, having it returned. The AVM insures your package goes straight to the correct address.

You can use CPS to control the environmental impact of shipping your products. CPS can be tailored through the use of RateBots to ship by the least cost method and also control the environmental shipping costs of the methods you chose. For example, choosing ground shipping instead of air for your international shipping lets you choose a green smart way shipping method over more energy consuming methods whenever possible.

Harvey Software plans to continue to develop ways CPS can help environmental companies practice green logistics.

GreenBiz - Daily News and Resources on Green Business, Sustainable Practices, Environmental Innovation. (http://www.greenbiz.com)

SmartWay (EPA) - The United States Environmental Protection Agency's SmartWay Transport Program. (http://www.epa.gov/smartway)

Environmental Defense - Partners with businesses, governments and communities to find practical environmental solutions. (http://www.environmentaldefense.org)

Global Green USA - An organization works with governments, industry, and individuals to create a global value shift toward a sustainable and secure future. (http://www.globalgreen.org)

SustainableBusiness - They provides global news and networking services to help green business grow, covering all sectors: renewable energy, green building, sustainable investing, and organics. (http://www.sustainablebusiness.com)

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Be sure to recycle your shipping boxes and packing materials. Reuse shipping containers and boxes as often as possible.

Use and promote the recycling of Dupont Tyvek mail envelopes like those used by the U.S. Postal Service. Call 1-866-33-TYVEK and ask about Dupont's pouch program for recycling
Tyvek envelopes.

Packing peanuts do not have much recycling potential, but they can be reused, which is even better. When you receive them from others, save them and reuse them for the things you ship. When you purchase packaging peanuts use the ones made from vegetable starch. They are much better for the environment and much easier to get rid of.

A small changes like these can make a world of difference!

Lee County Florida Ordinance # 07-25 makes recycling mandatory for businesses. Proudly Harvey Software, along with the efforts of its employees, exceeds these requirements.