Tag: Mail Services

RFID project likely to improve post services

Posted by | Apr 24, 2008 | |

The Radio Frequencies Identification (RFID) project, initiated by Q-Post along with other postal corps of the region is expected to improve the quality of services in the whole region, according to Yusuf Nasser al-Muzafer, director of administrative affairs at Q-Post.

Al Muzafer was addressing a meeting of the project group held at the GPO on Monday. The RFID, said to be the first of its kind in the region is an innovative postal project being implemented by Q-Post in association with Emirates Post and Saudi Arabian Postal Corp.

The project started on March 3, would be completed on June 7 and it aims to test the quality of service control through Radio Frequencies Identification. It will help Arab postal corps in using the global monitoring system to track mail via satellite, Qatar is the first Arab nation to participate as an observer in the UPU Quality Service Steering Committee and Q-Post official Catina Aghayan has been made a member of the committee.

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Royal Mail delivers changes (UK)

Posted by | Apr 24, 2008 | |

Royal Mail has reskilled half its IT department and retooled its 10-year outsourcing deal with supplier CSC to get a stronger focus on software development.

Central to the postal service’s GBP 1.2bn change agenda is the rollout of a Siemens-supplied automatic mail sorting system scheduled to go live at its mail centres and delivery offices in September.

The platform is the backbone of Royal Mail’s service overhaul, which will be followed by a number of customer-focused initiatives such as minute-by-minute parcel and letter-tracking, and projects aimed at internal optimisation, such as telemetry and scheduling of staff, trucks and aircraft.

To support the demand prompted by the service overhaul and the legacy systems yet to be replaced, chief information officer Robin Dargue launched a business capability review which shed almost half the 300-strong permanent IT workforce but created about 100 new core IT roles.

Royal Mail is five years into its 10-year outsourcing contract with CSC, which was reviewed late last year in relation to “monies Royal Mail wanted to pay for extra services and some services that were no longer required”.

Earlier this year, Computing revealed Royal Mail was tendering for up to GBP 40m-worth of consultancy contracts to support its outsourcing deal with CSC. The move was triggered by “simpler consultancy framework agreements”, expected to reduce project timelines.

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SteelCloud awarded contract by U.S. Postal Service

Posted by | Apr 23, 2008 | |

SteelCloud, Inc., an engineering and manufacturing integrator of network centric and embedded computing solutions today announced it has re-won a contract valued at over USD 8 million from the U.S. Postal Service Engineering Department for SteelCloud specialized servers. Deliveries will commence in April 2007 and continue for the remainder of the Company’s fiscal year which ends October 31, 2007. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. Postal Service has an option to purchase additional servers which would result in a total contract value that exceeds USD 10 million.

“We are gratified to have been selected again by the Postal Service for this prestigious and important program,” said Clifton W. Sink, SteelCloud President & CEO. “With over 23,000 SteelCloud mail-automation servers already installed throughout the U.S., it is clear that the Postal Service appreciates the value the SteelCloud solution brings to the FRIP program. A key factor in our success has been our engineering innovation. We have designed a patent- pending chassis that protects each server from dust and vibration typical in mail-automation environments.

SteelCloud was initially selected for the FRIP program in December 2006 and has successfully won the re-compete, which stemmed from a protest by a losing bidder early this fiscal year. Due to a change in the solicitation requirements for the re-compete, the overall value of the contract was reduced.

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Canada Post and FedEx Express Canada set to launch new International Express Service

Posted by | Apr 23, 2008 | |

Canada Post Corporation and FedEx Express Canada have combined forces in the development of Priority Worldwide, a new international express service that will be sold in Canada through Canada Post’s retail and commercial networks and delivered worldwide through the extensive FedEx international delivery network. Priority Worldwide will be available to customers in the fall of 2008.

Priority Worldwide will offer an on-time, money-back guarantee and delivery standards of next business day by noon to most USA destinations and 2-3 business days to most of the remaining industrialized world. Other key features of Priority Worldwide include tracking, delivery confirmation and signature upon delivery.

Moya Greene, President and CEO of Canada Post said, “Globally, postal administrations and express companies are working together to improve service to their customers. This relationship with FedEx, a world class company, is not only consistent with that trend, it improves our offering to customers, strengthens our business and enhances our brand.”

“FedEx is making it easier for Canada Post’s customers to grow their businesses in a global marketplace,” said David Binks, President of FedEx Express Canada. “FedEx is pleased to be working with Canada Post and the collaboration allows postal users the opportunity and the ability to expand in the more than 220 countries and territories that our network supports.”

Canadian shippers will be able to use Priority Worldwide to send envelopes up to 500 grams, paks up to 1.5 kg and parcels up to 30 kg around the world with the full confidence that Canada Post, Canada’s most trusted federal institution, and FedEx, a trusted international express transportation company, are behind it.

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Microsoft and HayPost Sign Agreement

Posted by | Apr 23, 2008 | |

Microsoft and HayPost will sign an Enterprise Agreement on April 22, 2008 at 14:00 pm. This signing ceremony will take place at the Marriott Armenia Hotel. With support of Dom Daniel LLC – the Large Account Reseller (LAC), this agreement between Microsoft and HayPost will help continue to move forward many of the transformations that HayPost has been undertaking, but this time in the IT sector.

The purpose of this agreement will be to help HayPost utilize and implement Microsoft’s most innovative technologies and use these to increase the productivity of HayPost’s resources. Microsoft will provide training for HayPost IT staff as well as organization workshops and seminars to ensure that the new technologies will be utilized efficiently.

We strongly believe that Microsoft’s innovative technologies will be used as highly productive resources in building up-to-date IT Infrastructure for HayPost and are ready to openly share our experience and knowledge with our new customer.
In this respect we would like to thank management of HayPost for the understanding that effective use of IT can bring to tremendous improvement and great results in terms of making the entire organization much more manageable, effective and offering high quality services.”

Both parties are highly convinced that this cooperation will bring a long, productive and sustainable partnership and help the credibility not only in the IT sector in Armenia, but also the efficiency of the postal and financial sector in the country.

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