New business models arising from liberalisation and deregulation in the postal industry worldwide
New business models arising from liberalisation and deregulation in the postal industry worldwide
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Refused orders: US Department of Commerce E-Retail
1 Ecommerce orders (Cybersource 06/2004) Among medium and large online merchants, 41% do not accept overseas orders, with the biggest obstacle being fear of fraud. Fraud rates on overseas orders are four times the level of North American orders. Cybersource 06/2004 (Include small traders and this rises VERY fast above 50%)
2 Logistics in place (Accenture 2005)
Only slightly more than half of companies have logistics partnerships in place that deliver a global footprint…
3 Revenue earnings (Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations 2002) U.S. companies are not as global as the global sample of firms. For instance, global sample firms earn 12% of total sales from abroad, compared to 5% for U.S. firms,: In the same global survey (300 companies in US, 200 per other 9 countries surveyed) 9% of online US firms said international sales increased V 19% of the non US online companies.
Sorry it is late but you might pass it on to the people who argued with you as a follow up.
I would also have to say that in E-REVENUE terms the companies that do take orders online are big earners and represent a very big proportion of overall Ecommerce revenues. However international revenues remains small EXCEPT for highly export oriented or digital product suppliers.
Read MorePostEurop 5th IT Forum 2007
The PostEurop IT Forum takes place once a year to spur exchanges in the field of new information and communication technologies among postal operators across Europe.
Innovative IT Solutions will be crucial for the future success of European postal companies. At the PostEurop 2007 IT Forum experts from all across the industry will discuss the latest developments and IT solutions in light of increasing electronic substitution and deregulation. The IT Forum will be hosted by Deutsche Post World Net and take place in the DHL Innovation Centre near Bonn, Germany.
Among the topics to be discussed will be hybrid mail solutions, RFID tags, e-government solutions, digital franking and other hot issues for electronic postal services. Speakers come from postal operators such as CTT Correios de Portugal, DPWN, La Poste Group, Poste Italiane and Itella, and from international consultancies like Accenture and Strategia Group.
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