Alaska’s bypass mail program has been identified as one of five major cost burdens to the U.S. Postal Service, according to an inspector general’s report.
“Current estimates of the annual direct loss to the Postal Service are 50 million USD to 60 million USD,” according to the June 22 report to Postmaster General John Potter.
Read MoreDespite having been chief executive of United Utilities (UU) for only a few months and not having a background in the utilities sector, Philip Green already has some firm ideas on the direction in which he wants to take the business.
Green came to United from Anglo-Dutch container shipping company P&O Nedlloyd, where he led a flotation of the company before it was acquired by the Danish transport giant AP Moller-Maersk. Prior to that, he had held the position of chief operating officer at news agency Reuters and, earlier, parcel firm DHL.
Read MoreBull today announced that it has acquired the former Firstlogic, Inc. postal automation software business, based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, from Business Objects Americas. Business Objects retains the former Firstlogic data quality business. In addition, Business Objects retains the former Firstlogic Commercial Mail division, which develops software to support direct and commercial mail printers, publishers and distributors.
Bull’s subsidiary, AddressVision Inc., will provide Postal Automated Software Solutions for Government and Commercial Delivery Companies in the U.S. and abroad.
Read MoreDuring the past six months, IMRG has undertaken a major study of the way the internet is affecting
consumer spending. To augment its IMRG Index data, which collects hard sales data each month
from a large pool of e-retailers whose sales represent a quarter of the UK market by value, IMRG
consulted widely with leading Government and commercial agencies, and commissioned
eDigitalResearch to conduct a series of surveys, including a consumer survey that collected 3,900
responses. The key findings are as follows.
§ £80 billion of consumer spending is either ON OR INFLUENCED BY the internet, of which:
§ £30 billion of RETAIL SPENDING* is online – a quarter of this is travel
§ £20 billion of OTHER CONSUMER SPENDING ** is online (Note: this value is difficult to
quantify, and is believed to be a minimum)
§ a further £30 billion of OFFLINE RETAIL sales is impacted by internet information, research or
stimuli
§ 10% of retail sales now take place online
§ e-retail sales have grown at an average year-on-year rate of 45% for the past 6 months
§ e-retail sales have grown 2,000% in 6 years
§ 44% of shoppers polled expect their online shopping to increase in the next 12 months
§ 90% had researched goods online then bought them offline
§ 73% assume that an item available on a retailer’s website will also be in their stores
§ 47% assume that if goods are not available in a retailer’s online store they won’t be in their
physical store either
§ 52% of consumers plan to reduce their high street spending in 2006
The U.S. Postal Service is seeing a 2.6 percent response rate from a direct mail campaign started in June to help direct mail marketers in their struggle to sell the concept to their constituents.
Despite reaching out more to the marketplace in the past few years, the postal service has focused on ad agencies and advertisers in big companies, said Rod DeVar, USPS national manager of advertising and promotions.
“We had stayed away from people in the direct marketing industry because we felt we needed to influence, change minds and create a presence in the mind of the advertiser and the agency about how direct mail could fit into their communications mix,” he said.
Read MoreRoyal Mail Group last week issued a tender notice for consultancy services to overhaul its 1.8 billion GBP annual procurement spend.
The Procurement Transformation Project will run for three years from the award of the deal.
The notice said the aim is to “help develop procurement at the Royal Mail Group into a world-class organisation”.
Read MoreUSPS to the BOG relating to PFY 2006
Read MoreCTT FINANÇA (Postal financial services of the Portuguese posts) has gained international recognition from EUROGIRO last June, in Pfäffikon, Switerzland during the EUROGIRO Network, A/S meeting, for its commitment in the development and launch of the Tele Money Order service. TMO allows money remittances in 48h
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