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Joan Collins and Westlife to star in new Post Office UK tv advertising campaign

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

The series of TV commercials are set in a fictional Post Office branch which will welcome some famous faces in the coming months, with customers including Westlife, Bill Oddie and Keith Harris and Orville.

The fictional Post Office team is led by sub-postmaster Ken, played by John Henshaw, whose has previously appeared in The Royle Family, Early Doors and Life on Mars.

Post Office marketing director Gary Hockey-Morley said: “Our marketing has been key in helping us to become the fastest growing financial provider in the UK. We have exceeded one million financial services customers, GBP 2bn has been invested in our savings accounts and one in every 25 credit cards is from the Post Office.

“But the business continues to face major commercial challenges so it is vital that we respond to create a sustainable branch network. The TV advertisements will form the backbone of a major new marketing campaign highlighting the uniqueness of our service and the broad range of competitively priced products on offer at local Post Office branches.

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New distribution and new prices in Post Danmark

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

As at 1 January 2008, Post Danmark introduces a number of changes to update the services offered to customers. The changes will ensure that Post Danmark will continue to be in a position to carry out the important societal functions associated with the provision of efficient, effective and uniform postal services to everyone throughout Denmark.

An important new concept introduced by Post Danmark is the Business Letter. This is a completely new letter service that can be used by everyone regardless of it being either associations, organisations or the corporate sector. The only requirement is that at least 3000 same-size letters must be sent at the same time. The letters will be delivered within four days, which means that Post Danmark will be able to organise handling work very efficiently, for which reason it will be possible to offer this product at prices that are lower than the prices charged for current letter types.

In addition to introducing the Business Letter concept, Post Danmark will restructure its mail delivery system: in future, ordinary postmen and postwomen will focus on distributing mail to recipients and will therefore not carry or accept any money. Consequently all COD items will have to be collected and paid at a post office or post shop.

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UPS names new District Executive

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

Mike Horman, a 22-year veteran of UPS will become Director of Sales for the UPS Central Florida District. In his new role, Horman will direct all sales and marketing activities in a large part of central Florida stretching from Orlando to Tampa.

Horman, who will be based in Orlando, most recently served as director of sales in UPS’s Prairie Mountain District covering Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana. He began his UPS career in 1985 as a loader and part-time package handler in the Indiana District. He then moved through a series of jobs with increasing responsibility in sales and marketing.

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DHL New Zealand Survey: Exporters turning to E-commerce

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

The majority of exporters are now using the Internet for deliveries, pick up and shipping of their goods, according to a survey by express and logistics company DHL.

The DHL Online Trade Survey asked over 250 New Zealand importers and exporters their views on eCommerce, with 60 percent saying they used the Internet.

The survey found that of those exporters who use the internet for deliveries, pick up and shipping of their goods, 57 per cent stated it was because it was more time efficient and 25 per cent claimed it was because they found booking online easy to use.

Of those companies who did not use the internet, only four per cent stated it was because they had fears around security.

Five per cent said it was because the process was too confusing. The majority, 68 per cent stated it was because they prefer to speak to someone in person.

DHL Express General Manager, Derek Anderson, says 81 per cent of exporters have a website for sales and marketing. Of those companies 64 per cent of the queries or sales orders coming from within New Zealand.

The next largest number of responses was from the U.S with 12 per cent.

Mr. Anderson says having a website can be a powerful marketing and reference tool.

However he says when developing off shore markets, face-to-face meetings are always going to be the strongest way to make business connections, which might explain why the majority of the queries and sales leads come from within New Zealand.

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Microsoft Technology Innovation Helps Bring Postal Industry Into the Electronic Age

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

How do you send physical mail to a business person whose most frequent address is at 37,000 feet? That may sound like a riddle, but to Earth Class Mail Corp., it’s a serious question.

This week at POST-EXPO 2007 — an international postal technology conference held in Barcelona, Spain — new and innovative offerings are being showcased that address this question. Earth Class Mail’s solution is a Web-based software system, developed on Microsoft .NET, that seeks to do for postal mail what cellular technology did for telephone calls: make it mobile by making it digital.

Earth Class Mail’s software is a compelling example of the kind of innovation Microsoft champions through a postal vertical industry team within its public-sector organization. Focused on meeting the needs of the worldwide postal industry, this team aims to apply Microsoft’s solutions, technologies and global partner network to help postal service providers and organizations gain new efficiencies and business opportunities in the Internet era.

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Pitney Bowes sees geospatial software as key to fed sales

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

Pitney Bowes Inc. is merging its Group 1 Software Inc. and MapInfo Corp. business units into Pitney Bowes Software, a new unified entity that will make an aggressive effort to become a major government provider of geospatial software.

Pitney Bowes developed the business strategy in 2002, as part of an effort to shed its reputation as a business mailing com-pany and become a software provider. Its first major acquisition was the Lanham, Md.-based Group 1 in 2004, which developed enterprise data quality and integration software for local, state and federal agencies.

The acquisition of MapInfo, based in Troy, N.Y., was completed in April, said Bernard Gracy, vice president of strategy and business development at Pitney Bowes. The two units will merge their operations in the next several months. “There is a very carefully planned transition period,” Gracy said. MapInfo and Group 1 have well-known brand equity “and we want to make sure that that brand equity gets carefully transitioned to this new unit. That’s really the most important part of this integration.”

It’s also important for the federal sector and the major government integrators to know what Pitney Bowes Software now delivers, he added. “In the government space, the systems integrators are key to our mutual success.”

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