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NowDocs Rolls Out Automated Return Delivery

Press release from the issuing company

Aliso Viejo, Calif. - NowDocs , Inc. (www.nowdocs.com ), the world's fastest same-day on-demand printing and delivery service, today introduced Express Return - allowing senders to include a FedEx next-day envelope with every document delivered. This new service makes it even easier to do business, with the industry's fastest turn-around for important business documents. Express Return rolls out first in the continental U.S. It includes a FedEx letter-pack that can hold up to 30 pages and a completed air bill for next-day delivery. This service is perfect for situations that demand send-back of signed approvals or documented review. It even includes an automatic email reminder to sign and return if send-back isn't initiated by a designated date. Express Return, which costs $19.95, is available with all NowDocs U.S. same-day and next-day deliveries. NowDocs is complementing this offering with new options for organizing documents, including tabs and dividers that can be customized with section headings. It also offers spiral and Velo binding, as well as distinctive clear-cover folders and 3-ring binders. These new features expand upon the suite of corporate solutions that NowDocs introduced last month. These enterprise-focused offerings for Global 2000 companies make the most of internal printing resources and the efficiency of digital on-demand printing, with custom services that operate both inside and outside the firewall, and let companies use their own collateral. "Our customers want to focus on their core business, which depends on getting important business documents signed, sealed and returned to the sender. Our two-hour digital printing and delivery service - and the Express Return feature - makes this easier than ever," said Brad Adamske, CEO and founder of NowDocs. NowDocs is a leader in the rapidly emerging market for digital print-on-demand services. This real-time distributive digital printing, coupled with a range of priority delivery services, provides tremendous operational efficiencies by reducing the time and expense associated with handling documents. NowDocs' global print and delivery service includes same-day delivery in as little as two hours to 16 markets worldwide, including London, Hong Kong, and Toronto, and next-day delivery to 200 countries worldwide, with pricing beginning at $19.95 for same-day and $9.95 for next-day delivery. From any Internet browser, users simply type in the recipient's address, upload documents, select how many copies they want printed, bound, packaged and delivered. NowDocs patent-pending distributive technology allows users to preview the document before it is printed, ensuring quality. NowDocs manages its own worldwide network of secure fulfillment facilities. Its enterprise and e-commerce solutions have been created to accommodate the growing demand from global companies to tailor NowDocs' Web-based, on-demand printing and delivery as well as distributive technology to specific corporate needs. Though the Web interface is a major component of its business model, NowDocs positions itself as a best of "click and mortar" hybrid with a global sales force, 24 x 7 customer service and ownership of secure fulfillment facilities strategically located around the world. NowDocs received second-round funding of $31 million in July 2000. The round was led by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), and included a strategic investment from Staples, Inc. (NASDAQ:SPLS).