Internet distribution of print job to multiple print shops based on geographic location of document recipients

A system comprising:

• a plurality of print service providers;
• and,
• print job oversight and analysis center, the print job oversight and analysis center being adapted to, in response to receiving a job requiring printing and delivering documents, determining geographic locations of recipients of the documents and selecting a subset of the print service providers to print the documents and send the documents to the recipients;
• wherein each of the print service providers in the subset of print service providers printing documents for a subset of the recipients, the documents being apportioned among the subset of print service providers based on the geographic locations of the recipients of the documents so as to coordinate delivery time from the subset of print service providers to the recipients.

A computing system comprising:

• a memory, the memory storing information about print service providers and storing programs which implement print job oversight and analysis;
• a processor, which when running the programs which implement print job oversight and analysis, in response to a job order requesting printing and delivering documents, determines geographic locations of recipients of the documents and selects a subset of the print service providers to print the documents and send the documents to the recipients so that each of the print service providers in the subset of print service providers is selected to print documents for a subset of the recipients, the documents being apportioned among the subset of print service providers based on the geographic locations of the recipients of the documents so as to coordinate delivery time from the subset of print service providers to the recipients;
• and,
• a network interface for connecting to a network, the computing system using the network interface to communicate through the network to the print service providers.