The average daily volume of electronic mail (e-mail) is expected to grow from 9.7 bil pieces in 2000 to 35 bil pieces by 2005, while first-class mail will decline 3.6%/yr from 700 mil pieces to 583 mil pieces, respectively, according to USA Today research. The percentage of households with e-mail access was 34% in 1999, rising to 53% by 2001, according to a Pitney Bowes telephone survey.
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Read MoreA high-tech and telecom industry group today took a swipe at the U.S. Postal Service for its attempts to compete with “fledgling e-commerce” companies while enjoying privileged governmental status. “We do not see any reason for a government agency to be competing against private firms in the vibrant, competitive world of e-commerce, and wonder how much money will they have to lose on these undertakings before they decide to stick to their core mission of delivering the mail,” said Ed Black, the Computer & Communications Industry Association’s president and CEO
Read More“E-commerce will generate a boom in business for German parcels firms over the next four years and expand overall market volumes by about 38 percent, a survey commissioned by the country’s postal watchdog RegTP forecast. Some 819 million additional parcels and express or courier items were likely to be generated by online sales in the year 2005, the survey by specialist consultant Manner-Romberg Unternehmensberatung (MRU) found.
Read MoreDHL completed the restructuring of its U.S. operations on Monday, naming John Fellows, a former chief executive of TNT Express Worldwide, as chairman and chief executive of DHL Holdings Inc. (USA).
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