Tag: Australia

Australia Post acquires PrintSoft

Posted by | Aug 10, 2005 | |

Australia Post today announced that it has acquired the global operations of PrintSoft, including PrintSoft Americas Inc., effective July 1, 2005. PrintSoft is a global leader in providing variable print software solutions for corporate, financial, utility, direct marketing and service bureau environments. This will be the first time that Australia Post has owned a business operating in the United States. In 2002, Australia Post and PrintSoft jointly developed Australia Post’s successful Post eLetter service, enabling clients to create letters, invoices, statements and postcards on their desktops, then securely submit them electronically to the Australia Post service bureau, where they are automatically aggregated, sorted and produced with bar codes for optimal production and postage saving.

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Koizumi’s posthaste approach to reform pushes envelope

Posted by | Aug 3, 2005 | |

Koizumi is confronting the final citadel, containing many from his own party, blocking his career-long crusade to privatise Japan Post. The decisive vote in the upper house may happen as early as Friday but the numbers remain too close to call.

If Koizumi fails, he vows he’ll force a lower house election. If he succeeds, an awesome collection of financial assets totalling some Y350 trillion (USD4.1 trillion) will begin a 12-year transformation that will also reshape Japan’s financial system.

For the most part, Koizumi’s LDP opponents simply want to keep Japan Post for pork and patronage. However, there’s an awkward possibility the Koizumi plan is so deficient they might be doing the country a favour by frustrating it.

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Asia-Pacific postal services combine to fight couriers

Posted by | Jul 26, 2005 | |

Australia Post is part of an alliance intended to improve competition against international air express companies. The other alliance members are China Post, Hong Kong Post, Korea Post, Japan Post and the US Postal Service. The alliance will provide a low-cost express courier service. It will target small to medium-sized businesses. The new enterprise will offer over 261 million delivery points, with 142,000 retail locations. Its rates for parcels up to 30 kilograms will be between 40 per cent and 50 per cent lower than those of competitors.

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Australasia Market Development – Report 1

Posted by | Jul 1, 2005 | |

First in a series of four reports dealing with postal services policy and development in the wider markets of Australasia. Prepared for Postwatch by Arrowhead Consulting Ltd.
Introduction
Report Scope
Country Selection
Report Structure
Overview and Implications
Introduction
Implications
Country Review
Introduction
Australia
New Zealand
Singapore
Japan
Hong Kong

P:LibraryPostalAustalsain_Market_Developments for Postwatch 0705.pdf

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New Zealand Datamail goes postal

Posted by | May 27, 2005 | |

New Zealand Post subsidiary Datamail is broadening its operations in Australia by partnering with Connxion, an Australian document producer. David Allen, general manager of Datamail’s document solutions group, says the partnership allows Australian companies to print and lodge business documents in the New Zealand postal system. He says the company has been working with Connxion for some time and is now ready to go live with DHL. “DHL’s central hub is in Sydney and all its billing for New Zealand customers was done from Australia at significant cost.”

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