Tag: Communication

UK businesses to pay postage online

Posted by | Nov 27, 2002 | |

Companies will be able to buy postage over the internet under a pilot scheme unveiled by Royal Mail (RM) yesterday. According to RM, the new service will be available to “selected customers” in January and February next year, and will be extended in the autumn if it is successful. Gillian Wilmot, managing director of mail markets, said: “We want customers to have a choice about how they access our products and services in a way that best suits them.”

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U.S. Postal Service creates 'first-class' e-mail

Posted by | Nov 22, 2002 | |

USPS unveils electronic stamp they plan to sell to certify authenticity and delivery time of emails. The technology, called “electronic postmarks,” will not necessarily end the era of free e-mail. But it does create a “first-class” version with a small delivery charge. The postmarks are likely to be used to transmit sensitive documents, for instance, to authenticate the sender and reassure the recipient.

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Post Offices confront an electronic future

Posted by | Oct 30, 2002 | |

How post offices should respond to challenges posed by technology and market liberalisation is being debated at conference of the Universal Postal Union. The 700 delegates are discussing how organisations devoted to moving paper from place to place should deal with a future increasingly enveloped by email messages.

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Deutsche Post to continue operating digital signatures

Posted by | Sep 30, 2002 | |

Deutsche Post, the German postal service operator, has announced that it is to continue operating its loss-making digital signature subsidiary Signtrust. It had been due to withdraw entirely from the business, as announced at the end of May, but it will now remain in operation.

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