As of July 1, 2001 all of our wholly owned companies – Belgian Mailhouse N.V., First Priority UK Ltd, and Scandinavian Distribution & Postal Service Inc. (SDPS)– will begin their day with Direct Link™ as their new identity
Read MoreTwo of the UKs leading mail order companies, Freemans and Grattan, have launched a subsidiary company specialising in the provision of :complete third-party fulfillment services.
Read MoreCustomers are more and more unhappy with the postal service and express mail services, according to survey from the American Customer Satisfaction Index
Read MoreIN THE majority of Western countries, businesses and consumers take a reliable postal service for granted. Once a letter or package is posted, it’s expected to be delivered within the timescale paid for and for it to arrive intact at its destination. But what about the postal systems in countries having to cope with the joint challenges of economic and political upheaval after the fall of Communism?
Russia, one of the countries that has faced these issues, offers vast business potential for direct marketers, but capitalising on this fact can be easier said than done. Its State-owned postal system, run by the Federal Mail Service Board, is having to deal with the demands of a free market economy dragging itself into the new millennium and compared to, for example, the British or American postal services, it is antiquated to say the least. So in order to take advantage of what Russia can offer with regard to direct marketing (DM), it pays to become au fait with its primitive postal traditions.
After being hit with back-to-back postal rate hikes, publishers are exploring
alternate delivery options as a way to sidestep the USPS. Still reeling from the May 8th announcement that postal rates are going up
another 2.6 percent this month, publishers are taking a hard look at delivery
options that would allow them to bypass the United States Postal Service.
Publishers say they are considering a wide spectrum of options including using
private transportation companies and joining together with other mailers. Some
publishers, however, are quick to point out that alternate delivery tactics
have been tried before, and have failed miserably. Leading the charge for change is the Magazine Publishers of America. After a
$10 million lobbying and public relations blitz that unsuccessfully sought to
keep postal rates under control, the MPA is furious over the latest rate hike.
After being hit with back-to-back postal rate hikes, publishers are exploring alternate delivery options as a way to sidestep the USPS. Still reeling from the May 8th announcement that postal rates are going up another 2.6 percent this month, publishers are taking a hard look at delivery options that would allow them to bypass the United States Postal Service.
Read MoreNew Zealand Post Annual Report 2001
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MERICA has all too often turned into a graveyard for foreign retailers. But this week a British supermarket chain sped across the Atlantic to teach the Yanks a trick or two. On June 25th Tesco, Britain’s biggest grocer, announced a deal with Safeway, California’s biggest food retailer, to bring its successful Internet shopping service to the United States. Tesco is injecting both its technology and $22m into Grocery
Works, a loss-making online retailer that is majority-owned by Safeway, in return for a 35% stake.
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