The British national mail company Consignia has applied for an exception from the commitment to a universal postal service. The exception would concern mail delivery to approx. 4,500 households, half of which are located in Scotland or on islands off the Scottish coast.
Read MoreDeutsche Post AG’s growth rate appears to have slowed down. Company chairman Mr Klaus Zumwinkel said in an interview with the German paper ‘Welt am Sonntag’ (20.1.2002) that he expected profits for the financial year 2001 to grow by 5% if the turnover growth remains continuous (2000 turnover: 32.7bn euros, profits: 1.527bn euros).
Read MoreThe German postal company has avoided paying value-added tax (VAT) amounting to $800-million for 1998 and 1999 prior to its stock market listing in 2000, a member of parliament has charged.
The accusation from Free Democrat Party member Juergen Koppelin is based on a confidential memo from the federal audit office and follows the launch of Deutsche Post on the stock market at the end of 2000.
The idea sounds so good, simple and obvious, it is odd that no-one thought of it before. Yet until ten years ago the overnight palletised goods networks did not exist. Now the networks are some of the fastest growing parts of the haulage market, and the daddy of them all, Palletline, Is celebrating its 10th birthday.
Read MorePostcomm and Postal services – The risks and opportunities
Read MoreClickAction(TM) Inc. (Nasdaq: CLAC), a leading provider of email marketing automation solutions, announced today that they have launched the ClickAction Email Matching Service, an additional enhanced acquisition tool, to clients. ClickAction Email Matching Service matches and appends accurate, deliverable email addresses to corresponding names and postal addresses, enabling a new communication channel with existing customers. ClickAction clients are now able to send an invitation email to existing customers, using their prior business relationship, to gain permission to send ongoing email communications.
Read MorePostNexus, Inc., a provider of integrated, e-to-post business communications solutions, today announced the commercial availability of pMail(TM), a first-of-its-kind solution enabling businesses to use existing applications to send virtually any personalized, digital document as printed, postal mail. The only solution of its kind to seamlessly integrate with commercial and internally developed desktop and Web-based applications, pMail enables businesses to easily and cost-efficiently implement high-impact, customized postal mail communications with existing and prospective customers. pMail is ideal for business-critical applications such as accounting, customer relationship management and sales force automation.
Read MoreInternet postage sounded like a natural. You would download an electronic “stamp” from the Web onto your computer and print it on an envelope using any printer. Bye-bye, long lines at the post office. Hello, Stamps.com.
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