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ShipShapes First to Take Advantage of USPS Changes Allowing Direct Mail Attachments

Posted by | Jun 28, 2004 | |

ShipShapes, the pioneer in Customized MarketMail (CMM), is the first to take advantage of recent changes authorized by the United States Postal Service (USPS) that allow marketers to add attachments, such as a key, casino chip, product samples, compact disc, gift card or business reply card to CMM direct mail pieces. CMM, a classification of mail approved by the USPS last year, allows for non-rectangular, over-dimensional pieces of mail to be shipped without a package, carton or envelope. ShipShapes allows direct marketers to take advantage of CMM to communicate with target customers and increase their return on investment.

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Cost of mailing basic letter to rise to 50 cents in January, says Canada Post

Posted by | Jun 28, 2004 | |

The price to mail a letter in Canada will rise to 50 cents in January, the post office says. The new rate is effective Jan. 17, 2005 and is up from the current 49 cents levied in January this year. The 2.04 per cent increase is derived from a formula using Statistics Canada’s consumer price index. The cost to send letters, cards and postcards to the United States will rise to 85 cents from 80 cents in January, and to Can D1.45 from Can $1.40 for other foreign destinations.

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DHL Solutions expands RFID service to help customers across Europe

Posted by | Jun 28, 2004 | |

European customers of DHL Solutions’ logistics service now can call on the company to handle their radio-frequency identification tagging requirements. DHL this month expanded to companies across Europe its TagFIT RFID service, which it had been offering only to Metro AG’s top 100 suppliers to help them meet the retailer’s RFID-compliance mandate. Once there’s agreement on global RFID standards, DHL hopes to roll out the service to North America and China, too. “Our goal is to become the core logistics supplier for RFID services worldwide,” says Clemens Beckmann, managing director of corporate development at Deutsche Post World Net, DHL Solutions’ parent company.

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Deutsche Post bond issue to bring in 1.08bn euros

Posted by | Jun 28, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post, the German postal service operator, is reported to have exercised fully the surplus allocation option for the three-year bond convertible into shares in its subsidiary Deutsche Postbank. This represents an additional 98.3m euros, bringing the total income from the bond issue to 1.08bn euros.

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Japan Gov’t to map out postal privatization plan in Aug.-Sept.

Posted by | Jun 27, 2004 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Sunday the government will formulate a basic policy on postal privatization during the August-September period. The comment, made during a program on public TV broadcaster NHK, apparently indicates Koizumi’s plan to contain opposition from within his own ruling Liberal Democratic Party over the privatization issue by mapping out the basic policy at the same time as he reshuffles the Cabinet and appoints LDP executives, pundits said. Koizumi said that after Japan’s postal services are privatized, the state’s full guarantees on postal savings and preferential treatment for corporations, including exemption of corporate taxes and fixed asset taxes, should be abolished in stages during a transitional period of up to 10 years.

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UK MPs are sent letters about misdelivered mail by post watchdog – but none of them arrives

Posted by | Jun 27, 2004 | |

The postal services watchdog, Postwatch, has lodged an official complaint with the Royal Mail after all the letters it sent to a group of MPs were lost in the post – the missing items were promoting a campaign to encourage people to report misdelivered or lost mail. The letters, addressed to 49 MPs at the House of Commons, were posted first class from Ely, Cambridgeshire, on May 13. Each was clearly marked with the Postwatch return address. After a fortnight, it became clear that none of the “Stamp Out Misdelivered Mail” campaign material had been delivered. Royal Mail had no explanation for this. A spokesman said:”We have conducted a full investigation and have found no evidence of any problems in the relevant postal areas. As far as we are concerned, the letters are not in our system.”

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Vatican post office simply saintly

Posted by | Jun 27, 2004 | |

The 109-acre Vatican, walled in against an Italy of labor strife, strikes, long lines, late trains and a maddeningly unreliable postal system, has developed a mail service over the years that is the envy of Italians. It is both fast and safe, Auerilio said, describing it as a beacon of bureaucratic success in a landscape of ineffective infrastructures. “The Italian state of mind is not to work so hard, and you can really see this in its post office,” said Dimitri Auerilio, a 48-year-old compensation-board worker. “Instead, the Vatican post office is really good. They are efficient. They get things done.” Tourists, as well as the Romans, are in on the secret. As a result, more letters are sent each year, per inhabitant, from the Vatican’s 00120 postal code than from anywhere else in the world 7,200, compared with about 660 in the United States or 109 in Italy, said Juliana Nel, a spokeswoman for the Universal Postal Union.
She called the Vatican’s service “probably one of the best postal systems in the world.”

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UK Royal Mail Profits Could Hasten Privatization

Posted by | Jun 27, 2004 | |

The Royal Mail’s return to profit could speed a move to full competition, according to the chairman of regulator Postcomm. Sir Nigel Stapleton said a decision on “liberalisation” would not be taken until later this year, following a consultation exercise, but still ahead of the planned April 2007 deadline. Stapleton’s hints at faster liberalization will be welcomed by new entrants to the UK market including Deutsche Post and Dutch postal operators TPG, which recently obtained licenses and which are keen to grow their presence in the business market which accounts for 80% of the postal market.

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