The head of Austria Post’s new technologies Walter Trezek claims Austria Post hasn’t lost out by being slow to run with the Internet or launch e-commerce projects.
Compared to the US Postal Service, Canada Post, Swiss Post or Deutsche Post that have already launched an array of online services, Austria Post has indeed been slow to get out of the gate.
Read MoreSpeaking at a meeting with e-tailers
recently, Jim Doyle, head of international development for the PickPoint /
Collectpoint Internet fulfilment business, described the rapid progress made
in the UK over the past twelve months in both recruiting on-line retailers and
also chains of late-night opening stores as collection points for the service. Collectpoint now has a wide variety of on-line and mail order retailer
partners, allowing shoppers to collect their purchases from over 3,200
collection sites throughout the UK. All Collectpoints are open from early
morning to late at night seven days a week and some are open 24 hours per day.
When shopping with a participating retailer, shoppers simply select a
Collectpoint near to their home and pick up their parcel when convenient
A few projections of the UK e-commerce market and 3 delivery/collection box companies
Read MoreMarketing Week has noted that Osterreichische Post AG, the Austrian post office, has unveiled a new store format called Post.at. In addition to traditional postal services, the outlet offers a range of up to 1,000 office and stationery products, books and CDs. Four Post.at outlets are currently operating, the latest of which opened in Vienna last week.
Read MoreLa Poste, the French post office, has just set up a new product called Esipost, which aims to help small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) get involved in electronic commerce
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