Tag: Retailing

Post Office best suited for E-Commerce transactions

Posted by | May 30, 2002 | |

The Post Office is to become the preferred authentication service provider in terms of the Electronic Communications and Transaction Bill, adopted by Parliament’s communications committee yesterday.
The bill is intended to promote the use of e-commerce by establishing a legislative framework for electronic transactions, as well as for the authentication of electronic signatures.
The committee felt the Post Office had the infrastructure and geographic spread to act as a preferred authentication service provider. It would act in this capacity particularly for government, but also for the public.

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Royal Mail targets home shoppers in online push

Posted by | May 10, 2002 | |

Royal Mail is encouraging more people to shop via mail order, with the launch of a new campaign aimed at increasing revenue from its business mailing arm.
The viral e-mail campaign will target customers with a propensity for home shopping, driving them to a microsite, www.royalmail.com/cataloguecollection. The site lists a wide range of catalogues that can be ordered online.
Three different creative executions have been designed, to prompt consumers to shop from their home computers, in their leisure time. Catalogues featured will range from football merchandise and mobile phones to ladies clothing.

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German consumers find electricity savings and environmental choice at their Post Office

Posted by | May 9, 2002 | |

What can you get at a local post office? For German consumers, 5,000 postal outlets provide a convenient place where they can order their electricity, even choosing between “green” or conventional nuclear and fossil fuel power.
Over 50,000 consumers have signed electricity supply contracts at their postal outlets in the first six months of a program offered by Deutsche Post World Net, operator of Germany’s postal system.
So far, roughly 15,000 consumers – almost one in three signing contracts under the program – are opting for “green” power. Green producers market advantages such as how switching to green power can reduce CO2 emissions annually by two tons per household, or the equivalent of driving a car 6,200 miles.

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The Gluttonous Gardener awards contract to Beck & Call

Posted by | Apr 25, 2002 | |

The Gluttonous Gardener, mail order and Internet-based supplier of plant gifts, has appointed home delivery operator Beck & Call to handle all home shopping deliveries of its plants to customers living in London. Whether shopping online via Beck Call’s portal at www.beckandcall.co.ul or through the Gluttonous Gardener’s mail order brochure or website at www.glut.co.uk, customers can now choose form the retailers unusual selection of plant gifts and have thes delivered through Beck & Call’s flexible home delivery system. Founded in 2000, Beck & Call provides users with the ability to shop online, by mail order or in the high street with the advantage of home
delivery at their convenience. Customers covered by one of Beck & Call’s depots receive a call, an email or a message on their mobile phone when their purchases arrive at their local depot. The customer chooses when to take delivery and the goods arrive within plus or minus 30 minutes.

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