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China Postal Savings Bank to issue first credit card

Posted by | Sep 30, 2008 | |

Postal Savings Bank of China is to issue the first credit card as early as this October or November, sources reported.

At the China International Financial Exhibition on Friday (26th September), the Postal Savings Bank, which was established in March 2007, revealed its six core business models, including credit banking, corporate banking, wealth management, international banking and credit card services.

The credit card service has been put into internal trial operations since June before it is available to the public.

The establishment of Postal Savings Bank marks huge progress in China’s financial reform and is expected to improve financial services in the country’s rural area due to the comprehensive post office network in the countryside.

As of the end of June, the total balance of deposit with the lender was RMB 1.92 trillion. (0.28 trillion).

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Postal operators must focus on innovation

Posted by | Sep 30, 2008 | |

“Innovation is an essential element in planning and preparing for the future. Being innovative is the only way the postal sector can remain competitive,” said Edouard Dayan, Director General of the Universal Postal Union.

Over the past few years, Dayan said, postal operators worldwide have shown an ability to innovate, especially in creating services that facilitate e-commerce, an industry fuelling the growth of parcels and small packets.

He cited the development of e-services and payment services as two areas in which postal operators have made great strides in order to meet customers’ need for new ways of sending messages and making financial transactions as they increasingly use the Internet to conduct daily activities.

According to UPU statistics, more than 80 pct of postal operators in industrialized countries and 40 pct in developing countries offer innovative messaging services such as secure e-mail, hybrid mail and electronic changes of address.

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Vendors announced for Royal Mail mobile project

Posted by | Sep 30, 2008 | |

Royal Mail has announced the suppliers for its national mobile service project which will see 25,000 postal delivery workers equipped with handheld devices.
As reported by Computing in July, the introduction of the devices is part of a GBP 1.2bn IT-driven business transformation at Royal Mail designed to improve customer service by verifying the status of tracked letters or parcels.
The handheld devices are being supplied by Intermec, while CSC will develop and maintain the systems supporting the service. The CSC team also includes Blackbay, a provider of mobile workforce systems.
Royal Mail van drivers will be able to capture signatures at the point of delivery, eliminating the current paper-based processes.
Some 70,000 staff who delivers items by foot or bicycle will continue using a paper-based system to record signatures and delivery times, but the devices will roll out to all postal delivery workers in the future.
Trials for the handheld computers began late last year.

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Royal Mail hits TV screens with new campaign (UK)

Posted by | Sep 30, 2008 | |

Royal Mail is to change the focus of its marketing and communications from the consumer sector toward businesses, partly to remind big companies that it still exists, but, more significantly, to position the brand as the postal operator of choice for small and medium-sized firms.
This repositioning will begin this month with a ‘Partners for Growth’ campaign targeting the UK’s 4.3m SMEs. An above-the-line push, by ad agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO, will comprise TV, press, direct and digital activity.
The drive will direct prospective customers to a 15-step online questionnaire that asks respondents about their business needs. Within two hours, those who have completed the survey will receive a personalised ‘growth pack’ containing information about how Royal Mail can help them. The idea is to publicise some of the brand’s lesser-known business services, including data provision and media consultancy.

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Escher Group to Showcase New Technologies

Posted by | Sep 30, 2008 | |

Escher Group, Ltd., will be unveiling its latest offerings RiposteTrEX™, RiposteSaaS™, RiposteMCM™, and RTelemetry™ at this year’s Post-Expo in London. These new offerings address the multi-faceted role of the post in the modern electronic age.
RiposteTrEX™ is a business electronic mail system that replaces paper-based business mailings through the postal system by providing collection, clearance and delivery options through a closed access, secure messaging system that ensures electronic delivery of intact messages. RiposteTrEX is the next generation of the Riposte® messaging technology that has underpinned post office counter networks worldwide since 1993.
RiposteSaaS™ provides a cost-effective and flexible method for post offices to acquire the power of RiposteEssential™, Escher’s integrated POS (point-of-sale) solution. RiposteSaaS includes a set of modular applications supporting a broad range of retail and postal transactions that streamline business processes and provide the potential for increased revenue. RiposteSaas enables the rapid deployment of the modules where RiposteEssential is hosted as a service and provided to customers “on-demand”.
RiposteMCM™ enables post office customers to directly access, via the web, services that would otherwise require a visit to a post office outlet. These customers are able to log on to their account and view their available credit (supporting both a top-up and/or credit account model). They would then be able to perform a variety of postal transactions and print mailing labels and other supporting documentation right from their computer.

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Russian Post and Microsoft Rus sign cooperation deal

Posted by | Sep 29, 2008 | |

Russian Post and Microsoft Rus, the Russian subsidiary of the global Microsoft Corporation, have signed a cooperation agreement to modernise the outdated IT infrastructure of the Russian public postal operator.

The deal is part of Russian Post’s three-year programme to reduce losses and to modernise infrastructure and services. The modernisation programme was announced by Russian Post CEO Andrej Kazmin in April this year.

Under the agreement, the two companies will implement several projects in key areas that include among others developing IT solutions for monitoring electronic resources, establishing a unified e-mail service as well as exchanging technological and marketing information. The important steps include creation of software for information telecommunications infrastructure that comprises components designed for carrying out applied software operations.

Russian Post, with a network of 42,000 post offices and 415,000 employees, handles more than 1.5 billion letters and 48 million parcels every year.

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DHL Express Austria expands its air network

Posted by | Sep 29, 2008 | |

DHL Express Austria has doubled the number of its flights from and to Blue Danube Airport in Linz, Nothern Austria, with 5 weekly return flights on the Leipzig-Linz-Ljubljana route.

With the introduction of the new flights, the Blue Danube Airport Linz is further expanding its infrastructure as well as international marketing activities due to the increasing demand for air transportation.

Currently, around 450,000 kgs of air freight are handled at Linz Airport annually with an expected growth rate of 5-10 pct next year.

In June 2007, DHL Express Austria became a new customer of the airport. Since then, DHL has been operating the Linz – Leipzig – Linz route. In addition, shipments from Salzburg, Carinthia, Styria and parts of Lower Austria have been shipped via Linz to Leipzig since April 2008.

DHL Express has a total of 15 sites in Austria and employs about 870 people.

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DHL launches Japan second 3PL-operated Clinical Trial Logistics Hub

Posted by | Sep 29, 2008 | |

DHL announced the launch of DHL Exel Supply Chains second Clinical Trial Logistics Hub.

With strong performance in clinical trial business launched in March 2007 as the first 3PL provider in Japan, the second operation base was opened following the facility setup in Yashio, Shinagawa in July 2007. The size of this new hub facility is expanded to 2,760‡u, about 20 times more than that of Yashio. DHL Supply Chain provides pharmaceutical companies with a supply chain solution for clinical trial such as warehouse management and transportation at this distribution hub. And this helps rationalize the cargo tracking capability, manage operations with high quality, and improve efficiency in operational processes complying with the regulations (standards & procedures based on GCP) on practice criteria for clinical trials in the pharmaceutical industry. Additionally, the hub manages investigational materials in two temperature zones, and the temperature tolerance is observed strictly. In order to provide rigorous management, security system and back-up power supply are available as well.

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