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Revolutionising UK Mail Sortation with USE, the Engine Behind Cygnus & SwiftSort

By |2025-10-28T06:59:54+00:00November 3rd, 2025|

For over 25 years, The Software Bureau has been at the forefront of data processing and postal sortation in the UK. Our commitment to innovation and accuracy has helped over 100 clients, ranging from direct mail producers to charities and corporates, navigate the ever-evolving complexities of bulk mail sortation. At the heart of our sortation ecosystem lies USE, the Universal Sortation Engine, a powerful on-premise API that drives our flagship products, Cygnus and SwiftSort. What is USE? USE is our Postal Sortation API, designed to automate and integrate the sortation of UK mail in compliance with all major postal service operators, including: Royal Mail UK Mail Whistl Citipost The Delivery Group Whether you're sorting for Mailmark, Zonal, or Unsorted services, [...]

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The Software Bureau Unveils Two Major API Releases

By |2025-09-10T11:12:54+00:00September 10th, 2025|

We are pleased to announce two significant advances in our API suite, each a UK first in its own right. SwiftCore PAF v2 API – Cloud Based Address Enhancement We have released SwiftCore PAF v2 API, another ground-breaking milestone for The Software Bureau. SwiftCore PAF is the only UK batch address enhancement and verification platform hosted entirely in the cloud. It already processes over 100 million address records every month, and thanks to the limitless scalability of our Microsoft Azure backbone, its capacity is effectively infinite. This is address verification at industrial scale, delivered securely and reliably from the cloud. Learn more about SwiftCore PAF v2 API → Postal Sortation API (USE) – On Premise Sortation Simplified Alongside SwiftCore PAF [...]

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MyMailing.co.uk – Now Supports Mailmark

By |2018-11-06T10:38:45+00:00April 17th, 2018|

The Software Bureau announced the upgrade of it’s free to use online sortation service MyMailing.co.uk. The improved service now allows printing companies, mailing houses and corporate mailing departments to achieve the largest postage discounts by sorting data to the Mailmark standard which now accounts for close to 2 billion mailed items per year. Mailmark sorts are priced on a pay as you go, nil commitment basis with all other Royal Mail sorts offered free of charge. MyMailing.co.uk helps organisations dramatically cut the cost of postage by sorting address data into Royal Mail compliant sequences and batches. Royal Mail incentivise users of direct mail with significant cost savings for complying with Royal Mail sortation requirements. To achieve these savings traditionally requires [...]

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Open Standard Published for GeMMA to Improve the Mailmark Experience

By |2017-01-12T13:09:15+00:00June 18th, 2016|

In an unprecedented move, The Software Bureau has published the Open Standards for its market leading, Mailmark eManifest management process, GeMMA in a bid to both improve the Mailmark experience and attract more mailers to the bulk mail solution. Mailmark is now the most cost-effective and accountable way for mailers to send bulk mail, however the lack of continuity between application standards has been identified as a barrier. Each software application can have a different standard or data format, resulting in confusion and unnecessary costs being incurred by mailers having to handle manifest data from different sources. By publishing the open standard to GeMMA The Software Bureau provides the industry with a common platform that brings together the different software [...]

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