Talk:Pitney Bowes

message: Hello! As I mentioned above, I'm a Pitney Bowes employee and have a COI. I'm back with some updates to the History section. The History includes a lot of details that don't seem necessary or to offer significant information about the company's development over time. In particular there are a lot of mentions of the company's value, or revenue, number of employees or credit rating at various points. While some of these details may have offered some context to the business at the time, looking back over the entire history of the company they don't have as much significance. It also seems that some details are not organized chronologically, which is confusing. 
I have created a draft that trims out these types of details, focusing on major milestones for the company and presenting them in chronological order. 
To make it easy for editors to review the updates, I've listed the specific changes below and included my whole draft so that it can be easily copied across to the article, if it is approved. I’m curious if user:DatraxMada might want to take a look? Of course, happy to discuss these changes with others, too, if there’s interest! Many thanks again. MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 13:25, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Updates 

message: In 1902, Arthur Pitney patented his first "double-locking" hand-cranked postage-stamping machine, and with patent attorney Eugene A. Rummler, founded the Pitney Postal Machine Company. In 1908, English emigrant and founder of the Universal Stamping Machine Company Walter Bowes began providing stamp-canceling machines to the United States Post Office Department. Bowes moved his operations to Stamford in 1917. These two companies merged to form the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter Company in 1920 with the invention of the first commercially available postage meter. The company created its first logo, which symbolized "the security of the metered mail system", in 1930. In 1950, Pitney Bowes initiated an advertising campaign in national publications with the message, "Metered mail makes the mailer's life easier". In 1971, the company introduced a new logo, which represented the "intersection of paper-based and electronic communication".
In April 2003, Pitney Bowes filed a lawsuit in Seattle's King County Superior Court against Mark Browne and Howard Gray, who founded the competing company Nexxpost in 2002, as well as six other former employees, for engaging "in transgressions ranging from misappropriation of trade secrets to violating confidentiality agreements". The two companies reached a settlement in August 2003.
In 2008, in conjunction with other companies, Pitney Bowes donated two of its 3,400 patents to the Eco-Patent Commons, which is operated by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, in an effort to reduce pollution. One of the patents increases the lifespan of electronic scales, reducing landfill waste, and the other is an inkjet printing technology that reduces ink use. In 2009, Pitney Bowes was named one of the world's largest software companies by Software Magazine.The company opened its first customer innovation center in Shelton, Connecticut in December 2009.
The company sold its I.M. Pei & Partners-designed headquarters in Stamford for nearly $40 million in 2013, and relocated to a new, smaller headquarters in the city. According to the Hartford Courant, Pitney Bowes was eligible to receive as much as $27 million in subsidies over five years as part of the state's "First Five" program, for keeping 1,600 employees and adding 200 more.
The company announced plans for a rebrand in 2014. Pitney Bowes unveiled its new logo in January 2015, replacing one used since 1971; the rebranding campaign, which included an updated website and marketing, reportedly cost between $40 million and $80 million.
In 2016, the company launched its first television advertising campaign in nearly twenty years; "Craftsmen of Commerce" cost $20 million and included three advertisements for national news and sports networks. 
In March 2017, Pitney Bowes left the S&P 500 Index, having been listed since the stock market index was established in 1957, and joined the S&P 400. The company focused increasingly on e-commerce related services in the late 2010s. This area of its business grew during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it opened three e-commerce service centers in Baltimore, Orlando and Oakland in 2020. That year, the company celebrated its 100th anniversary.
: Partly done:  I agree with you that the History section definitely needs work. I've made several of the updates you'd requested but not all. See notes below for feedback on those:
*  Reordered details into chronological order
*  I left the 1998 valuation. The company was a major enterprise by the late 20th century and currently this is the only real indication of that fact. It would be better to replace this with more concrete information about the company's scale but this serves the purpose for now.
*  I also left the paragraph about 2003/2005/2006 employment and financials. Again, gives some sense of the company's scale at that point which is not clearly indicated otherwise in the article. I did reword it to be a bit clearer.
*  I removed the 2009 financials. Seemed unnecessary with the proximity of the 2006 numbers.
*  I didn't remove the 2015/2016 financials but I did move it to an appropriate place chronologically. Same rational as above for 2003/2005/2006.
*  Removed "Scale-Up" as in searching for additional sources it does appear to have been a minor initiative.
*  I've not removed the credit rating info but did move the statements to a more correct place chronologically and cut the unnecessary Moody's quote.
*  Added info about late 2010s/2020 e-commerce focus. The significance of this shift is supported by the references provided and others already on the article. I didn't include the mention of the 100th anniversary, however, as trivial in the sense of impact on the company. DatraxMada (talk) 20:11, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, user:DatraxMada! Thank you for reviewing my request. I especially appreciate that you went through item by item and explained your thinking on each part. You mentioned that you'd implemented the changes, however I'm not seeing them in the History on the actual page. Did you mean for me to copy over the draft that you've updated here on the Talk page? Sorry if I missed something! MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 12:29, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  You're right! For some reason my changes didn't save. I've redone them and confirmed they were saved successfully this time. DatraxMada (talk) 14:31, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you user:DatraxMada! Although I plan to have some other larger requests soon, in the meantime I have a very quick request for the Leadership, that I'll post below. If you'd be able to review that, I would appreciate it. Take care and thanks again! MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 15:25, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Hello! As I've disclosed previously, I'm a Pitney Bowes employee and have a COI. I have a small update for the Leadership section. Leadership includes mention of Lila Synder, who was previously Pitney Bowes' EVP and president of commerce. She is now the CEO of Bose. Would someone be able to remove her from the section? 
Many thanks again. MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 15:27, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: , Done. Chirota (talk) 01:47, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Chirota! Just FYI: I'm in the middle of a broader effort to improve and update this page, so I'll have more edit requests coming in the near future. Regardless of whether those interest you or not, I really appreciate you helping out here. Cheers! MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 19:18, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leadership Request 

message: Hello! As I've mentioned above, I'm a Pitney Bowes employee and have a COI. I have several proposed updates to propose: adding Awards and rankings, fixing buzzword flagged phrasing, and changing page structure slightly.
To start with, the company has some awards that I'd like to ask about adding to the page, potentially as a new Awards and rankings section:
In 2021, the company was ranked 36 in Forbes' list of "Best Employers for Women". In the Drucker Institute's Management Top 250 listing, Pitney Bowes was ranked 131 in 2021.
Pitney Bowes was awarded the Climate Leadership Award for Excellence in Greenhouse Gas Management in October 2021.
The company received a 100 percent score in the 2022 Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index and was listed as one of its "Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality".
I would also like to ask for some edits to fix the phrases that have been flagged as "buzzword" in the Acquisitions and divestitures section. After looking into this, it seems that the word "solutions" is the issue, so here are the changes I suggest: 
*Change  to  
*Change  to  
*Change  to  
Last, as I was looking at the page, I have some organizational edits I'd like to make:
*Make the Acquisitions and divestitures its own section, not nested under History
*Likewise, make the Leadership section into into own section, not under History
Happy to discuss these changes with editors, and I hope that someone will make any of these changes if they're approved. Would either Chirota or DatraxMada want to review this request? Many thanks again. MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 14:27, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, User:BMJ-pdx! I noticed that you made a recent helpful update to this page and wanted to ask if you could review the edit request above, which I think will improve the page further. I'm a Pitney Bowes employee with a COI, so I have to ask other editors to review my requests rather than making direct edits to the company page. I hope you'll find what I've suggested straightforward and worth implementing. Thanks! MTatPitneyBowes (talk) 16:52, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good.  The change away from "solutions" is good -- "solutions" is too much a marketeer's buzzword.  And the distinction between services and technology is good, being more specific.  BMJ-pdx (talk) 18:20, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing this as answered, per above. Z1720 (talk) 23:22, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awards, Flags and Structure Request 

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