Companies allocating big budgets to email and SMS campaigns may want to
think twice following new research conducted by TNS showing less than one
in ten Australians want organisations to reach them by email or SMS.
Whether it be for promotional messages or essential communication such as
bills, the report reveals Australian consumers vastly prefer post to any
other medium.
USPS Postmaster General John Potter has warned that a postal rate increase planned for 2006 could be 4 cents or more for first class letters unless restrictions on how the agency operates are eased.
Potter asked a joint House-Senate hearing on the future of the post office to free USD3 billion in postal funds from an escrow account and to remove a USD27 billion obligation for the agency to cover military retirement benefits for its workers who previously served in the armed forces.
Read MoreDeutsche Post, the stockmarket-traded German mail carrier, disclosed for the first time Tuesday what its chief executive earns per year: 1.72 million euros (2.09 million dollars) plus stock options. The figure appeared in the 2003 financial report of the Bonn-based group who said it was going for maximum transparency, beyond what was required in the German corporate governance code. Half of group chief Klaus Zumwinkel’s pay was fixed and the rest was a performance-related bonus.
Read MoreSpanish transport and distribution company Transportes Azkar bought 60 pct in the regional transport and distribution company Morata Logistica y Transporte in Alicante province, eastern Spain, for an undisclosed sum, Azkar reported to the Spanish stock market regulator CNMV on March 23, 2004.
Morata Logistica had been a representative for Azkar (www.azkar.es) for the province before the acquisition.
Read MoreDHL, the Deutsche Post World Net parcel service, is launching a special price campaign for senders of private parcels. 23.5 million households will be receiving a voucher for the new sheet of three Freeway parcel stamps. Customers can use these stamps to send three parcels for the price of two. Freeway parcel stamps are purchased in advance, just like regular stamps.
Read MoreOpinions vary on the London congestion charge, a year old last week. Communters and the national media have been generaly supportive, won over by reduced traffic levels and better publich transport. But retailers have suffered, and the hauliers who fuel the capitals economy have given the scheme, now likely to be widened, a firm thumbs-down.
Read MoreFedEx is struggling to keep its Russian operations afloat after moving airports and replacing its longtime local agent in December — just days before a sweeping new customs regime came into force. In a snarl-up that has yet to be fully unwound, thousands of FedEx packages became marooned at Domodedovo Airport, calling into question the company’s membership in the “Big Four” club of express delivery providers in Russia, while simultaneously opening the door to upstart domestic companies. Express delivery companies are notoriously tight-lipped about the financial side of their operations, and there is little independent research about their activities that can be considered authoritative, making it difficult to gauge turnover and trends. But by most accounts, the industry has grown between 25 percent and 40 percent per year over the last three years, and just four Western companies — Dutch TNT, Brussels-based DHL and American UPS and FedEx — account for most of the action.
Read MoreJapanese door-to-door parcel delivery firm Yamato Transport Co. plans to launch small-lot mail delivery services for individuals Wednesday in a bid to compete with Japan Post, Japan’s public postal corporation. For the launch of new services, excluding the delivery of personal letters, Yamato Transport has obtained government approval to change contract terms on its existing mail services for large-lot clients, informed sources said Tuesday.
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