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Amazon.ca Teams with Canada Post to Deliver the Final Harry Potter Book to Customers' Doorsteps on July 21 for the Same Price as Express Shipping

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

Just as it has done for previous Harry Potter books, Amazon.ca today confirmed that it has teamed with Canada Post to deliver “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” to the doorsteps of excited fans across Canada on Saturday, July 21, the same day the book goes on sale to the public. Release-date delivery, which is the same price as Amazon.ca’s express shipping, is guaranteed to qualified addresses in Canada or the cost of the book will be refunded.

Offered at $22.50, a 50 percent discount, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” became Amazon.ca’s current No. 1 bestselling book the same day it became available for pre-order on February 1, 2007. Amazon.ca saw an 825 percent increase in first-day pre-orders of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” compared to the sixth book. The seventh and final book has been so popular with Amazon.ca customers that the online retailer sold more copies of it in the first 30 hours than the company did of the sixth book in the first 30 days of its pre-order period.

To place an order for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and to explore Amazon.ca’s entire selection of Harry Potter products – including books, DVDs, computer and video games, journals and stationery, and more – visit www.amazon.ca/harrypotter.

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Siemens awarded USD 217.5 million flats sequencing system subcontract from Northrop Grumman

Posted by | May 30, 2007 | |

Siemens announced that it has been awarded a USD 217.5 million fixed-price contract to provide key technologies of the Flats Sequencing Systems (FSS) contract from the Northrop Grumman Corporation.

Northrop Grumman was contracted by the U.S. Postal Service to provide 100 FSS to further automate its flats mail stream, which includes large envelopes, catalogs and magazines.

Siemens will provide the optical character recognition and video coding systems (OCR/VCS), the tray staging device (TSD), and the sorter built to Northrop Grumman Corporation’s design. Additionally, Siemens will provide extensive logistical services and support.

A pre-production version of the system will be fielded later this year. This version will be used by the U.S. Postal Service to develop system operational procedures. Installation of the first FSS production units at U.S. Postal Service facilities nationwide is expected to begin in 2008 with the remaining FSS installations scheduled for completion by 2010.

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