DIRECT: DMA calls for entries for Royal Mail/DMA Awards
The Direct Marketing Association has issued the call for entries for this year’s Royal Mail/DMA Awards, which takes place in December
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Consignia posts web portal plans A single point of access for 20 million online customers.
Consignia is building a new customer portal around web services software from ebusiness platform company ATG.The company, formerly the Post Office, rejectedalternative packages from IBM, BEA and Broadvision.The portal, yet to be named, will launch in the autumn and is designed to give Consignia’s potential 20 million online customers a single point of access to services available from Royal Mail, Parcelforce Worldwide and the Post Office.
Read MorePost Denmark: Parcel Market Stabilizes
The Danish post office’s volume of international parcels fell 0.6 percent in the first half to 15.7 million, from 15.8 million a year earlier, the company said in its half-year report. ‘This indicates that the situation in the parcel market has stabilised again after a period of sustained sharp decreases,’ Post Denmark said.
Read MoreDeutsche Post's first-half net drops (ABIX Summary)
Deutsche Post recorded an operating profit of XEU1.41bn for the first six months of 2001
Read MoreCorreos launches plan to improve
Aug 21, 2001, (Expansion /FT Information via COMTEX) — Correos, the Spanish post office, will launch a plan to improve customer service, reduce waiting times and adapt its services to existing demand. The plan is aimed at enabling the company to compete with new private operators when the sector is liberalised in 2003. Last June, Viapolis became the first private operator in Spain’s state-controlled sector.
Correos post offices will have separate counters for normal mail, urgent mail, large packages, banking services, collecting mail and packages, and giro cashing. Machines will be installed which give out numbered tickets to customers, who will go to a window when their number is called out. Correos will launch the new system in August at its 30 busiest post offices. A total of Pta80m euros will be invested in the new equipment. Correos installed the system on a trial basis in five post offices at the end of 2000.
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