As it nears the debut of its Volly digital consumer billing and communication platform, Stamford-based Pitney Bowes Inc. saw its mainstay mailing business continue its decline in the second quarter, with sales off 5 percent from a year ago.
The company reported its results Thursday, days after Maryland police arrested a man and charged him with threatening to “load my guns and blow everybody up” at a Pitney Bowes facility there, where he had worked on a subcontractor basis. The Baltimore Sun reported authorities confiscated two-dozen weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition from the man’s home.
CEO Murray Martin did not address the incident in a conference call to discuss Pitney Bowes’ quarterly results. The Stamford-based company  earned $99.7 million on $1.2 billion in revenue in the second quarter.
“We have now signed more than 50 large third-party mail service providers who will offer the Volly secure digital mail service to more than 6,000 companies and consumer brands,” Martin said. “That”™s an ongoing process, and ”¦ (we) are starting to connect those billers now, the 50.”
