India Post has launched its pre-paying email and hybrid mail services in five pilot locations. After registering to use the service all customers need to do is use their pre-paid card and pin-code to send emails and hybrid mail requests from any machine.
Read MoreThe Italian government has opened up its market for day, or time-certain delivery of hybrid postal services, after the EC branded its current legislation antitrust.
Read MoreConsignia today announced plans to launch a new portal on which all its
websites will sit. Consignia’s 20 million online customers will have a single
point of access to the vast range of services available from Royal Mail,
Parcelforce Worldwide and the Post Office.
According to research presented by competitors of Deutsche Post, the post’s staff are working more slowly than the company admits. The research claims that letters posted in the late afternoon or evening have a low chance of being delivered the next day. Deutsche Post said the test covered such a small sample that it could not be taken seriously.
Read MoreDM News has reported that “the U.S. Postal Service is offering rate discounts to customers who buy the Global Express Guaranteed service online. Global Express Guaranteed, the USPS’ premium international shipping service, is an expedited delivery service offered as a result of an alliance with DHL Worldwide Express. It provides date-certain delivery service from designated U.S. ZIP codes to locations in more than 200 countries and territories. It consists of two mail classifications: Global Express Guaranteed Document Service and Global Express Guaranteed Non-Document Service. The USPS is offering the rate discounts to customers who prepare and pay for their shipments online, offering a standard discount for all such transactions and volume-based discounts for customers who ship minimum volumes weekly.”
Read MoreLe Soir has reported that “Express mail group TNT Express Belgium has signed an agreement with BIAC, the group responsible for operating Brussels-National airport.”
Read MoreThere has been a huge increase in the number of adults buying online in the
six months to March this year, according to the latest Target Group Index
(TGI) data. The figures show that buying has risen from almost nothing in
October 2000 to 30% this last Spring.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported that “Deutsche Post AG, the German post office, is to launch its own internet portal in October for the purchasing of transport services. Deutsche Post aims to be able to arrange regular contracts with outside companies, ad hoc services between depots and complete cargo transport entirely over the internet. The portal, to be called www.portivas.de, is intended to cover all of Deutsche Post’s European transport operations. Hauliers will be invited to give details of their entire capacity in order to help arrange suitable return shipments.”
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