Many direct mailers shy away from international mailings because of the extra costs that often come with the territory, with postage, lists and data processing all running up to 30% extra in overseas markets. A new service from DHL Global Mail, however, hopes to make international mailing more cost effective and efficient. With DHL’s new Global Hybrid Print & Mail service, companies can electronically send the data for mailings to Global Mail, which presorts the information and prepares ready-to-print files. The documents are then printed as close to possible to their destinations and inserted into the local mail stream. Global Mail is DHL’s mail expediter division. It has a variety of solutions intended to help  mailers get mail pieces to their destinations as efficiently and cost effectively as possibly. The new Global Hybrid Print & Mail service is coordinated with printing and fulfillment partners worldwide with the goal of reducing delivery times and postage costs for mailers. The Global Hybrid Print & Mail service provides other benefits as well, such as helping mailers avoid delays caused by events that disrupt international transportation like the recent Icelandic volcano eruption. The company also reports that the service can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 80% per letter compared with the traditional model of local printing and global distribution.