Year: 2003

USPS Customized MarketMail Begins Aug. 10

Posted by | Jul 11, 2003 | |

On August 10, the United States Postal Service will launch Customized MarketMailTM (CMM), an advertising mail product recognizable from others by their eyecatching, novel shapes. These distinctly different, literally-outside-the-box-shaped pieces will set their senders apart by visually communicating those mailers’ products and services. ‘In the battle for audience attention, Customized MarketMail will allow business mailers to differentiate their products in the mailstream,’ said Nick Barranca, Vice President of Product Development for the Postal Service. ‘Within certain size, weight, and thickness limitations, Customized MarketMail can be virtually any shape and design the mailer desires. CMM will let advertisers put their creativity to work, designing their mail pieces to deliver high impact, demand attention, and generate greater response rates.’

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Union representatives walk out in protest at La Poste

Posted by | Jul 11, 2003 | |

Representatives of the SUD and CGT unions yesterday resigned from the board of directors of the French post office (La Poste) in protest against the organisation’s alleged plans to shed between 40,000 and 60,000 jobs over three years. La Poste itself says that the exact number of job cuts, which are part of a restructuring programme, has yet to be decided.

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TPG Post UK hires former Royal Mail Media Markets director Higham

Posted by | Jul 11, 2003 | |

David Higham, former publishing director of Royal Mail Media Markets, is to spearhead Netherlands-based company TPG Post’s assault on the UK delivery of bulk mail after accepting the position of development director.

Higham, who spent ten years at Royal Mail, is taking up the post after leaving his previous role earlier this year in a divisional shake-up (PM January 10). At the time, one Royal Mail insider called the marketing department restructure a “slap in the face” for Higham and three other directors who left the business.

He will now lead TPG Post UK’s sales, marketing and business development, based in Maidenhead, Buckinghamshire.

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Teliasonera and IBM contract Swedish Post Office

Posted by | Jul 11, 2003 | |

TeliaSonera has signed an agreement with IBM to upgrade the Swedish Post Office’s (Posten) existing systems for telephony and data communications. The agreement is for a six-year period and is valued is calculated at approximately SEK 1.2 billion (Euro 130 million).

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Pos Malaysia to invest 80-90 Mln Rgt on upgrading

Posted by | Jul 11, 2003 | |

Pos Malaysia & Services Holdings Bhd will invest 80-90 mln rgt this year to improve its services by upgrading equipment and revamping its post offices, The Star newspaper reported, citing acting Chief Executive Officer S M Haja Alawdin S Md Sulaiman.

Pos Malaysia has 646 outlets throughout the country and it plans to first revamp some 50 post offices, he said.

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Business Post Chairman's AGM Statement

Posted by | Jul 10, 2003 | |

At the AGM today of Business Post, one of the UK’s leading express delivery companies, the Chairman, Peter Kane, issued the following update on current trading and prospects. “In the preliminary announcement of results for the year ended 31 March 2003, on 20 May 2003, I said that trading in the first seven weeks of the new financial year had been encouraging. Today, I am pleased to confirm that trading remains in line with management’s expectations. It is also a pleasure to announce two important new customer wins in the high-tech sector. Firstly HomeServe, the Group’s UK business-to-consumer parcel service which provides a high quality next day service to residential addresses, has secured a contract with Walsh Western International, the Dublin-based logistics supplier to the high-tech industry. In addition, Express, the Group’s UK business-to-business parcel service, has won a three year agreement with Computacenter (UK) Ltd, one of Europe’s leading independent providers of IT infrastructure services.

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Govt May Rescind Argentine Postal Concession

Posted by | Jul 10, 2003 | |

Argentina’s government is considering rescinding the concessions for the country’s airports and mail service and then placing them back in private hands, Planning Minister Julio de Vido was reported saying on Wednesday. De Vido was reported by local daily Infobae as saying that the government’s ‘idea is to privatize them again’ although he added that there is a ‘possibility’ that these services will fall into the state’s hands. According to Infobae, De Vido said the government will decide what to do about the country’s airports and mail service, after reviewing the extent to which the private companies’ complied with the original contract terms.

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