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Postal Union hopes to use new delivery project early next year

Posted by | Sep 24, 2008 | |

Q-Post chairman al-Ali with UPU and other delegates at the meeting of the interim working group in Doha yesterday

Members of the quality steering committee of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) expressed confidence that the radio frequency identification project (RFID), aimed at improving the quality of postal delivery, would be successfully implemented in several countries across the world, most probably by early next year.

Experts, associating with the UPU’s initiative, are currently in Doha as part of the global monitoring system’s (GMS) interim working group’s third meeting in the city. The meeting will conclude tomorrow.

As part of the project, meetings are scheduled to be held also in Washington, Rio De Janerio, Lisbon, Botswana, Helsinki, and Japan. Some of the meetings have already been completed.

He said the core group had come out with some effective solutions which he said could be beneficial to all UPU members, in particular those in the developing world.
Jan Sertons (TNT, The Netherlands), Kai Perasalo (Itella, Finland), Antonio Caeiro, (UPU, Portugal) and Sakae Kamibayashi (Japan Post Service) are among the experts attending the meeting.

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Kesko and Itella to expand their E-Commerce cooperation

Posted by | Sep 23, 2008 | |

Kesko and Itella have made an extensive cooperation agreement for developing electronic business operations. The aim is to use the service packages offered by Itella to help Kesko’s divisions launch their online trade projects. The agreement now signed will first be leveraged in Kesko’s home technology and sports trade. The new cooperation agreement is a further step in the long-established cooperation between Kesko and Itella.

Electronic customer communication and related services are developed intensively in the trading sector. The availability of Internet services is highlighted in the service offer of the K-Group stores. Kesko has designated the development of electronic customer communication as one of its strategic projects. The online retail services for customers produced by Kesko’s divisions are part of this project. Itella’s e-commerce service package is unique as it covers services for both information and material flows.

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Main developments in the postal sector (2006-2008)

Posted by | Sep 11, 2008 | |

On behalf of the European Commission, DG Internal Market and Services, ECORYS has carried out this study from November 2007 to August 2008. The objective of the study is to identify, quantify and assess the main developments of the postal sector in relation to the application of the Postal Directive, in particular with regard to regulatory, economic, social, consumer and employment aspects, as well as quality of service and technology developments.

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Posten Logistik expands in Finland

Posted by | Sep 9, 2008 | |

Posten Logistik is now taking one more step towards realizing its Nordic strategy. Through the partnership with the Finnish travel and transport company Matkahuolto, a distribution network for parcels is established in Finland. Thereby Posten Logistik is strengthening its ability to harness the increasing international flows of goods both to and within the Nordic countries.

The logistics flows to, from and within the Nordic region are growing heavily, largely due to the fact that private individuals are increasingly ordering goods via the Internet and post order. At the same time, companies’ home markets are expanding. Companies with customers in several Nordic countries want to run their businesses without having to consider the country borders, and they are requesting cross-border, cost-efficient, and complete solutions to an ever-greater degree.

The expansion of the MyPack concept to Finland is an important step in Posten Logistik’s strategy to become a strong Nordic logistics company. In September 2007 it acquired the Finnish company Suomen Logistiikkatalo Oy, operative in the third-party logistics and inventory management areas. In 2007, Posten Logistik also established a network of over 600 pick-up points in Norway. In 2008, it acquired the entire Norwegian company Tollpost Globe, which had its own infrastructure and nationwide distribution in Norway.

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NetPosti to be integrated with S-Bank’s online bank

Posted by | Sep 8, 2008 | |

S-Bank and Itella have concluded a cooperation agreement to integrate Itella’s electronic transaction service NetPosti with S-Bank’s online bank.

– Via NetPosti, we will be able to make eInvoices, looking exactly the same as traditional paper invoices, available in our online bank alongside other electronic documents, such as payslips, sent as letters. This will render our online bank more diverse than ever before”, says Pekka Ylihurula, managing director of S-Bank.

He is confident that the use of eInvoices will become increasingly more common once electronic invoice data becomes as easy to read as a paper version.

According to Jukka Alho, Itella President & CEO, this cooperation, which combines online bank transactions with electronic official communication, will make everyday transactions more fluent.

According to Mr Ylihurula, Itella’s determined efforts to develop electronic transactions further and the ability to manage large customer volumes, alongside the positive feedback received from NetPosti users, made it easy to start cooperation.

This partnership will make an electronic, intelligent archive available for S-Bank customers via the online bank.

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