Are Critical Communications Part of Your Disaster Recovery Plan?
This year has proved to be stressful and challenging for most businesses, and Mail-Gard is no exception. When the COVID-19 pandemic began this spring, we had the challenge of protecting our employees and finding ways to safely work together while also supporting our clients with their own challenges caused by COVID-19. We’ve all discovered a […]
Resolutions You Can Keep in 2019—Both at Home and in Your Disaster Recovery Planning
It’s practically impossible to begin the New Year without thinking about some resolutions. While setting goals for the new year is pretty common for most of us, so are the results—we may consider them worthy endeavors, but they’re too hard to keep. Perhaps it’s time to reconsider these grand resolutions, and look at them more […]
No Horrors Here! Mail-Gard Clients Define What a Disaster Is
If you believe in this stuff… Legend has it that the veil between the world of the living and the spirit world is at its thinnest on Halloween, allowing for all types of ghosts, ghouls, and goblins to invade our streets and homes on October 31. Those of us in the BC/DR world know that […]
How We Helped Customers Prepare for the Recent Storms
This year’s hurricane season is like nothing in recent memory. With the country still reeling from Harvey, Irma, and Maria, everyone held their breath as Hurricane Nate headed toward states along the Gulf Coast this weekend. Those of us at IWCO Direct and Mail-Gard were especially anxious as a number of our colleagues and clients […]
Mail-Gard Print Outsourcing: We’re Here When Your In-House Operations Are Swamped
Most people think of Mail-Gard in terms of disaster recovery support. It’s what we’re known for, and intuitively, people understand that during a flood, tornado, or major power outage, a backup partner is necessary to ensure important documents are still delivered to customers to keep your business running without interruption. But bad weather and Acts […]
How Mail-Gard’s Recovery Builder® Strengthens and Simplifies Any Disaster Recovery Plan
There’s a reason companies call things like statements, invoices, notifications, explanations of benefits (EOBs), and other business correspondence “critical communications.” They’re critical to the ability of a business to maintain cash flow and adhere to state and federal compliance requirements. Networks, systems, and physical space are often the first things that come to mind when […]
Disaster Recovery Testing – How to Protect Yourself from Things That Go Bump in the Night
Whether you expect to witness a creepy clown in your neighborhood or have nightmares of Michael Myers chasing you, Halloween is a night to celebrate things that scare us and make the hair stand up on the backs of our necks. Disaster recovery testing reduces the number of things that can scare us – on […]
Mayday, Mayday: What Happens at Mail-Gard Once a Disaster Declaration is Made
This past Sunday was May Day, an annual celebration of spring. But being in the print-to-mail recovery industry, when I hear May Day, I can’t help but think of “mayday,” the internationally-recognized distress signal that’s reserved for emergencies. We thought we would take a moment to describe the processes Mail-Gard has in place and what […]
The Biggest Takeaways from Mail-Gard’s 20th Year at DRJ Spring World
Mail-Gard has been a faithful attendee of the Disaster Recovery Journal (DRJ) Spring World conference for two full decades, with the 2016 event marking our 20th year of participation. Year in and year out, the biggest names in the business continuity and disaster recovery industries look to the DRJ conference for the latest industry […]
We Reflect on 2015 and Prepare to Celebrate Mail-Gard’s 20th Anniversary in 2016
2016 will be an exciting year for Mail-Gard as we celebrate our 20th Anniversary. But before we look ahead, we wanted to spend a moment reviewing 2015, which was another strong year for Mail-Gard. We were fortunate to not have any formal disaster declarations in 2015. However, we had a few close calls with […]