Tag: Mail Services

TNT Post launches 'eco-mark' scheme

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

TNT Post is launching a carbon neutral addressed postal service which will allow brands to demonstrate their environmental credentials with a specially developed ‘eco-mark’.

Brands which want to display the eco-mark on their mailings will have to comply with a set of principles laid out by TNT.

In order to qualify, brands will have to undertake a carbon evaluation using a calculator which looks at the emissions of the entire mailing activity, from paper and packaging through to data, mailing house emissions and final delivery.

TNT will also assist participating brands with their carbon reduction by recommending suppliers that can help to reduce emissions, such as data cleansing and capturing undeliverables.

Brands using the service will also be required to offset their remaining emissions by investing in carbon reduction schemes.

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Syslore to deliver an address recognition and matching solution for Itella

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

Itella Mail Communication and Syslore Ltd. have signed a contract for the delivery of an address recognition and matching system for mail sorting and electronic message delivery services.

By adopting the Syslore mCorrection Receiver Matching EngineTM (RME) fuzzy matching system, Itella will improve the address and receiver recognition quality in their hybrid and electronic message delivery service and increase the level of automation in their mail sorting process. mCorrection RME system incorporates new-generation computing algorithms that can recognise faulty, inaccurate and incorrect address and receiver data more effectively and more precisely than was possible before. The system will be deployed to all Itella address recognition processes by 2010 in Finland and abroad.

The system operates as a centralised solution, which receives real-time address queries over a network connection from several automatic mail sorting machines in different sorting centres. If, for example, the mail receiver name can be recognised, but the address data is incorrect or only partly recognised, the system can find the correct address data from the address database up to the mail delivery point. Apart from increasing the level of automation in mail sorting, the solution can decrease the number of mail delivered to incorrect addresses and monitor the quality of address recognitions and sorting process.

A centralised software solution can also remarkably improve the quality and throughput time of address and receiver recognition for Itella’s electronic and hybrid services. mCorrection RME incorporates open interfaces and language-independent algorithms that enable more efficient use of existing systems and postal data assets, and improve the quality of service.

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Tiny gadget delivers a letter’s route (U.S)

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

The U.S. Postal Service commissioned Burlingame-based TrackingTheWorld to create the world’s first letter-tracking GPS device that will ensure letters never again are lost in the postal Bermuda Triangle. Dubbed the Letter Logger, the device stores GPS coordinates throughout its journey and stores information on its micro-SD flash memory card so the post office can keep tabs on the letter’s location.

The Letter Logger weighs just two ounces and is 3.9-by-1.5 inches. It is placed inside a regular No. 10 envelope and can operate for two weeks. The recipient of the chip can then upload the GPS data onto their computer and see the envelope’s route on Google Earth.

The gadget was released in February, when it was named gadget of the month by Popular Science magazine. The product is only a quarter-inch thick and costs USD 6.75 apiece.

The USPS does employ a variety of tracking devices to its letters and packages and uses GPS to track vehicles, but it does not have a GPS system to track individual letters, spokesman James Wigdel said.

In addition to avoiding lost mail, the device will help the postal service, and delivery companies such as UPS and DHL, minimize the amount of time a letter is being sent, Daggett said.

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The arrival of foreign competition and liberalisation of the national postal service may result in new postal codes

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

Liberalisation of postal services may be the demise of the nation’s 40-year-old postal codes as the system, devised and administered by Post Danmark, may undergo drastic reform in the upcoming liberalisation of the nation’s postal service.

One proponent of such a reform is Citymail, Post Danmark’s only competitor.

Jarle Trandokken, Norwegian state-owned Citymail’s Danish chief executive, said that the number of postal codes needed to be increased to encompass more addresses and making sorting easier.

To speed up the sorting process easier, Post Danmark invested in advanced sorting machines for scanning post, and Trandokken said it was unreasonable for new players on the market to have to make such substantial investments.

The Road and Transport Agency, the body responsible for inspection of the postal services, acknowledged that a postal liberalisation also came with considerations of reform in the area. However, Mogens Antonsen, a consultant with the agency said the present postal code system was not considered an obstacle.

In the mean time, Helge Israelsen, Post Danmark’s chief executive, said that he was unwilling to change the present postal system to accommodate Citymail’s objections.

The present postal codes were implemented in 1967. Larger cities have a number ending with two or three zeros and smaller towns, as far as possible, have a number ending with one zero.

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Deutsche Post to postpone launch of free weekly until autumn

Posted by | May 5, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post AG will keep plans to launch a free weekly newspaper on hold until autumn to allay criticism from Germany’s newspaper publishers and from politicians, Financial Times Deutschland reported, citing company sources.

The postal services company is seeking to keep a lower profile after it was criticised for being exempt from Germany’s general sales tax and chief executive Frank Appel is trying to prevent the project from being discussed at the company’s annual general meeting on Tuesday, Financial Times Deutschland said.

Deutsche Post had initially worked on a weekly publication with a focus on news about the Internet, telecommunication and computer, which was slated to be distributed to households for free and generate revenues from advertising.

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