The average daily volume of electronic mail (e-mail) is expected to grow from 9.7 bil pieces in 2000 to 35 bil pieces by 2005, while first-class mail will decline 3.6%/yr from 700 mil pieces to 583 mil pieces, respectively, according to USA Today research. The percentage of households with e-mail access was 34% in 1999, rising to 53% by 2001, according to a Pitney Bowes telephone survey.
Read MoreWhile PC Postage companies in the USA have either collapsed or struggle for business, Deutsche Post World Net launched the pilot programme for its PC Postage system on 25 April 2001.
Deutsche Post World Net has begun its practice test for Internet stamps with 48 pilot customers in Bonn and Offenbach. With ‘STAMPIT’ software, letters can be stamped with the help of a normal PC, special hardware is not necessary. STAMPIT is expected to be available for all customers of Deutsche Post World Net across Germany by August 2001.
Royal PTT Post of the Netherlands, part of TNT Post Groep, today introduced Privver, a personal letterbox on the Internet through which consumers are able to receive important postal items electronically. The first phase of market introduction is a pilot project open to 6,000 active Internet users who will be able to get their post in this way.
Read MoreGSG AG and Deutsche Post World Net (DPWN) are planning to cooperate. The international German consultancy and IT systems company Gaschka Systematics Group AG (GSG), Düsseldorf, and Deutsche Post AG, Bonn (Germany), have signed a three-year contract stating that they will cooperate in the consultancy area and in the concept development of comprehensive IT services.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service estimates that 45 million Americans move every year. For nearly two decades, the USPS’s National Change of Address system (NCOA), which includes the names of those movers, has been the best way for catalogers to keep up with those movers. This year, the Postal Service is implementing two changes in the NCOA system that may enable catalogers to better keep up with customers on the move. By midsummer, the USPS hopes to have in place a Website that will enable new movers to log in their address changes electronically
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