Tag: South America

State companies urged by Correo Uruguay to move on digital signatures

Posted by | Nov 17, 2003 | |

Uruguay’s state-owned companies must move to accept digital signatures as the fastest way to boost the transfer of electronic documents in the country, according to Fernanda Burgueno, head of electronic services at the state-owned postal service, El Correo. The postal service was the first digital certification authority in Uruguay, and began providing services in 1998, Burgueno said. Since then, the only major player to have introduced digital signatures was the central bank, which accepts digital signatures from other financial institutions, using El Correo as the third party authenticator.

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Notaries and Brazil Postal Service launch online joint venture

Posted by | Nov 6, 2003 | |

Brazil’s association of notaries, Anoreg, has invested 4mn reais (US$1.3mn) to launch an online notary service in partnership with the country’s postal service, Empresa Brasileira de Correios, and local bank Bradesco, executives told an online press conference Thursday. Customers will file a request for a notary document – from births and marriages to property rights – through the web site (www.cartorio24horas.com.br), which is delivered by the post office to the nearest notary office, and which will post documents back to the customer. Customers will be able to monitor progress online, and the total time for certificate to be delivered is estimated to be between 4 and 9 days.

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Fast Service at the Brazilian Post Office

Posted by | Nov 1, 2003 | |

The Brazilian Post Office has a network of services in 5,507 cities. with 82,000 employees, 12,200 postal outlets and a modern fleet of about 33,000 vehicles, transporting a volume of about 24.9 million pieces per day from north to south. In addition to the receipt and delivery of mail, the Post Office uses its network to supply various other services to the customers, including SEDEX express couriers, payment of bills, taxes, fines, and other kind of banking services.

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Correios to invest USD38mn in internet projects

Posted by | Sep 11, 2003 | |

Brazil’s state-owned postal service ECT, known as Correios, plans to invest 113mn reais (today US$38mn) in three Internet projects over the next five years, on top of 37mn reais already spent, according to AE Setorial. The three projects – online shopping mall, Internet access and digital certification for tax identification numbers – should reach breakeven Correios Internet manager AntAnio de Paulo Braquehais was quoted as saying.

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