Analyzing and Tracking the Mail Campaigns for Total ROI (Return on Investment)
Analyzing and Tracking the Mail Campaigns for Total ROI (Return on Investment)
Gene J. Popik – Lead Concepts Inc
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Benchmarking – Now More Important Than Ever
Benchmarking – Now More Important Than Ever
Ed Talley , Manager, Postal Services, Northern Arizona University
Award-Winning High Tech Secure Mail Centers Using Workers with Disabilities
Award-Winning High Tech Secure Mail Centers Using Workers with Disabilities
Read MoreA Cornerstone of Business Growth: PCC Educational Programs
A Cornerstone of Business Growth: PCC Educational Programs
Tracey Dunlap
Epiq Systems
Industry Co-Chair, Greater Portland PCC
Byron Jacobson
U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
Team Leader, Business Mail Academy
Canada Post Educates Marketers On ‘Responsible’ Direct Mail
Already a supporter of reducing junk mail with its eco-friendly Consumer Choice option that reduces waste and clutter, Canada Post has announced its greening with a nationwide initiative to help educate marketers and consumers on the responsible use of direct mail and its impact on the environment.
As part of its first Corporate Social Responsibility report, Canada Post is now offering www.canadapost.ca/green, which the company says offers marketing companies ideas on how to responsibly use direct mail to target their messages to consumers.
Canada took a giant conservation step toward reducing junk mail with the Red Dot Campaign. All Canadian residents have to do if they don’t want to get Spiegal-size clearing catalogs in their mailboxes, is apply a red “No Admail” or “No Junk Mail” sticker on their mailbox.
A recent survey from DMNews and Pitney Bowes found that negative perceptions of mail’s environmental impact are based on “widespread public misunderstandings.” The report said that 48 percent of those surveyed believed that mail was half of the content in the nation’s landfills. Mail, according to the report, actually makes up two percent of the nation’s municipal waste.
Read MoreLocal MP launches work on Palletforce’s state-of-the-art new logistics hub
Janet Dean, Member of Parliament for the Burton constituency, was guest of honour at the sod-cutting ceremony held to officially launch the building of PalletFORCE’s new state-of-the-art logistics hub recently.
After meeting senior PalletFORCE staff, Chief Executive Michael Conroy and Operations Director Carl Worgan, Janet Dean formally cut the sod on the new site, which is anticipated to be completed by late 2008 and operational by January 2009.
Janet commented, “I am delighted that PalletFORCE has chosen Burton upon Trent for this exciting new venture. Burton’s excellent transport infrastructure and well motivated workforce make the town the ideal location for the PalletFORCE network to provide an outstanding logistics service for its members across the country.”
PalletFORCE is one of the country’s leading players in palletised distribution, and the new Burton-based hub is designed to be a flagship for the sector, providing a bespoke environment that will offer faster throughputs and higher quality of operation. The £30 million investment will deliver a 379,400 sq ft site, which PalletFORCE believes can handle up to 4 million pallets per annum. There could also be additional employment opportunities in the Burton area.
The hub is being built by leading national contractor John Sisk & Son Ltd, with the assistance of the Derbyshire-based ‘Independent Stabilisation Company’.
Read MoreRoyal Mail to merge sorting sites (UK)
Royal Mail has announced the closure of two mail distribution centres in the Thames Valley.
After a period of public consultation the company has decided to press ahead with a plan to consolidate its centres in Oxford, Reading and Swindon.
The new Thames Valley Mail Centre will be based at an expanded Swindon site.
Building work at Swindon is due to be completed by October and the transfer of work from Reading and Oxford is scheduled for June 2009.
A spokesman for Royal Mail said it was unclear at this stage how jobs would be affected but he said they would be carrying out consultations with staff.
In a statement, the company said: “In a fully competitive postal market Royal Mail needs to change and this project represents a big step forward in making changes that will benefit our customers, our business and our people.
“Some GBP 20 million is being invested in this project and once complete, the new Thames Valley Mail Centre at Swindon will be the largest, state of the art mail centre in the country.”
Reading’s mail centre was “no longer fit for purpose” said the company as it was high maintenance, outdated and unsuitable.
Instead a new delivery office for central Reading will be developed.
The company added that delivery and collection operations across the Swindon and Oxford postcode areas would not be affected.
Read MoreDutch government decides against opening Dutch postal market on July 1
The Dutch government decided on last Friday 16 May against opening up the Dutch postal market to competition on July 1, stressing there are too many uncertainties to allow for full liberalisation.
The Cabinet said in a statement the wage accord agreed between unions and a number of new postal operators still offers insufficient certainty regarding a postal sector collective labour agreement.
The government also said the situation in the German postal market and the impediments for Dutch companies there means there is insufficient reason to agree to an opening of the Dutch market.
The Cabinet will continue to urge the European Commission to undertake action to allow competition in various European postal markets.
It added that the decision to delay liberalisation in the Netherlands does not mean the country’s postal market will remain closed to competition as an EU agreement stipulates that all countries open up their postal markets by December 31, 2010.
Newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad earlier reported on Friday that a parliamentary majority was in favour of opening up the Dutch market from July 1, a decision that would see former state company TNT NV lose its monopolist position for parcels less than 50 grams.
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