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PayPal granted banking licence

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

PayPal has been granted a banking licence by the Luxembourg financial services authority (CSSF) and has announcement that it will move its European headquarters to the country. The banking licence will enable PayPal to proactively market its Express Checkout service to retailers, a move which is prohibited under the terms of its current money licence – to date PayPal could only respond to retailers’ approaches to the company.

From 2 July, when the licence comes into effect, PayPal will be setting up local sales teams across Europe to expand the reach of its Express Checkout service – and therefore increase the number of retail sites accepting PayPal as a payment method.

The company says that Google’s launch of Checkout has no bearing on this move and it has no plans to extend its offering away from the online platform.

According to Forrester Research, 23% of European internet shoppers prefer paying with PayPal – which they can do at more than 100,000 websites in Europe.

In 2006, PayPal processed payments from “thousands of retailers” in Europe including Harrods, DHL, Meetic, Pixmania and Boots. The total payment volume in Europe reached GBP 4.29 billion. Over 15 million PayPal accounts are held by internet users in the UK.

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Catalogers Deliver to Chicago Area via the Tribune

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

With the recent hike in postal rates, delivering direct mail via newspapers has become a popular way of getting catalogs into the hands of consumers.

With that in mind, the Tribune Company launched Direct Delivery +, a low-cost alternative available via the Chicago Tribune that allows catalogs to be delivered with the newspapers, writes DM News.

For 9 cents per catalog, a marketer provides the Chicago Tribune with their mail files, which are then matched against a list of paid newspaper subscribers at the sub-zip code level, looking for areas where there is a high percentage of matches between the brand marketer’s list and Tribune subscribers. Mailing via the USPS can cost as much as 20 cents per catalog.
The Tribune also offers lifestyle segmentation analyses of areas that are not necessarily on the cataloger’s mailing list to see if those areas are worth targeting.

The program is available only in Chicago, where the Chicago Tribune has more than 660,000 home-delivery subscribers on Sundays. The Tribune Company expects to roll out the program in other markets in 2008.

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Environmental Emphasis Recognition for Pall-Ex

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

Fresh from winning the Leicestershire Business Of the Year Award 2007, pallet network industry leader Pall-Ex takes home another accolade.

Chosen as finalists for the International Freighting Weekly Environmental Award, Pall-Ex can add this achievement to a long line, which is echoed by their brimming trophy cabinet at the £12million purpose built facility, strategically located in the centre of the country in Ellistown, Leicester, close to junction 22 of the M1.

The very nature of this operation reduces journey length and underused capacity of fleet vehicles for all members of the Pall-Ex network, significantly reducing the environmental impact of vehicle emissions. This was however, just the beginning for the innovative entrepreneur Hilary Devey, Managing Director, who saw the opportunity to reduce emissions inside as well as outside her premises. Within the distribution hub, a fleet of 37 fork lift trucks run both day and night reorganising palletised freight into bays for onward delivery. These fork lift trucks all run on compressed natural gas, and not diesel, which limits emissions impact on the environment. Any emissions are mainly water based, which equates to cleaner air for the drivers to breathe, and no pollutants emitted that could contaminate freight.

Hilary Devey, Managing director and 100% owner of Pall-Ex commented “The very nature of the Pall-Ex concept is a brilliant way of uniting businesses around the country to reduce wasted journeys, increase profits, and reduce fuel consumption and emissions. Where Pall-Ex particularly shines is by going the extra mile, for example by using compressed natural gas in their fork lift truck fleet. The innovative nature of the company has been the root of Pall-Ex success, and will mean the company will continue to outshine competitors into the future.”

The other two finalists are CitySprint and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, and the winner will be announced at a gala dinner in The Honourable Artillery Company, London.

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USPS open office at The Bookstore

Posted by | May 23, 2007 | |

The United States Post Office recently opened a Contract Postal Unit at The Bookstore, 399 Campbellsville Bypass, Suite 207.

The CPU will provide a full range of postal services except for selling money orders. The CPU is another way to extend postal services to a different area of town and make it convenient to do business with the USPS.

The CPU will have extended hours beyond the traditional post office. It will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday (except Wednesday), 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday and closed on Sundays.

The CPU will be closed on six holidays compared to the 13 holidays that the post office at the Broadway location is closed.

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Third Round Table of International Post-CIOs

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

IT-Managers of the Postal Organisations from Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Austria meet in Budapest

Since the first and second Post CIO Roundtable were very successful, the third international „Postal CIO Roundtable“ (PCR) will take place in Budapest on 24 May. The Post CIO Roundtable is an initiative launched by the Austrian post office (Österreichische Post AG), hosted by the Hungarian post office (Magyar Posta Zrt.) and is aimed at promoting information exchanges between the IT functions of postal organisations.

Although postal organisations are more than ever in competition with one another in largely liberalized markets, at this meeting of experts cooperation on the technical challenges is the focus. It is seen as a means of promoting the development of new postal IT solutions, leading to the marketing of member companies proprietary technologies. The Round Table is also viewed as a platform for establishing internationally applicable standard key performance indicators and initiating regular benchmarking processes.

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AM PM making Mexico proud

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

The express package delivery group from Jalisco, Mexico, AM PM, founded by Pablo Moreno Valenzuela, yesterday won the World Mail Awards prize thanks to a technological innovation called EyeTrack, a system that permits company to know the exact time and place of delivery. AM PM has patented the system and has had interest from other express delivery groups from other countries in buying a copy. EyeTrack took 18 months to perfect and cost USD 5mil to develop. The delivery-man himself wears devices around his neck that scan at the critical moment and send information back to their base where special software interprets it, explains technological director at AM PM, Bernardo Bravo Gaxiola.

The firm has 4,000 employees and 12 distribution centres (in Jalisco, Baja California Norte and Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora, Distrito Federal, Guanajuato, Nuevo Leon, Nayarit, Colima and Michoacan) plus 1,500 vehicles; it is the nation’s biggest such enterprise and focuses on mass-mailing and credit-card deliveries, having been founded 16 years ago. It beat firms such as DHL Global Mail, Deutsche Post, the U.S. Postal Service and the Royal Mail to the World Mail prize. AM PM will invest around USD 6.5mil in 2007 on technological development alone.

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Masterlink Express Ltd. changed into DPD Polska Ltd.

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

On May 22, 2007 Masterlink Express ltd. was legally transformed into DPD Polska ltd.

The change will allow the company to build and strengthen its international image, effectively compete with integrators, increase market share in international segment and maintain dynamic development.

“Our vision of the near future is to attain the strong European position, being a company with local dynamism and flexibility, European strength and international potential, says Rafal Nawloka, DPD Polska President.

DPD Polska plans further development and investments in Poland. The plans include the purchase of building plots in order to build depots in the biggest Polish cities, the modernization of existing depots, introduction of new international services, investments in IT systems and staff trainings.

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DHL to open new logistics base in Hungary

Posted by | May 22, 2007 | |

Courier services provider DHL Expressz Magyarország Kft will launch the construction of a logistics base near the Fly Balaton airport in Sármellék.

The 2,400 square meter facility will be constructed by the Hungarian-Irish Cape Clear Aviation Kft for a budget of Ft 600 million (USD 3.24 million). The Hungarian DHL arm will take over operation of the site in September, when the facility is scheduled to be completed. Company head Martin Studer said the Sármellék node will be the company’s second Hungarian base of operation, after the completion of its other complex in Budapest at the end of the summer. The new site will house DHL’s Airbus A300 carrier planes, which will allow for faster completion of deliveries. The DHL Sármellék site is the first in what is planned to be a 25 hectares logistics park, where numerous investors are expected to settle in the coming years. (Gazdasági Rádió, Magyar Hirlap)

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