Mine’s Bigger than Yours: Quad and Donnelley Squabble Over Co-Mail

The country’s two largest publication printers sparred this week over who has the biggest, baddest programs for helping customers save money on postage. Quad/Graphics fired the first salvo yesterday when it announced that, “It is now breaking company and industry records for co-mail pool sizes, aggregated volume and customer postage savings.”

It took only a day for North America’s largest printing company to respond.

“We’re operating the most full co-mail production lines in the industry,” Thomas J. Quinlan, R.R. Donnelley’s CEO, said today during the company’s quarterly earnings call. “Our offer is unmatched distribution that includes co-mailing of Standard, Periodicals and