The Swedish Postal service is developing an e-postbox, designed to be a hybrid or wholly-electronic post box. The service is part of a change in the posts direction towards electronic services and is designed to enable businesses and government to send bills, pay-slips, forms and marketing information to individuals.
Read MoreTele2 AB said it has won an order from the UK’s The Post Office to launch fixed line, “pay-as you-go” telephony services in the UK from Nov 19.
The deal marks the The Post Office’s first move into fixed line telephony since it was divested from British Telecommunications in 1981.
Tele2 AB’s chief executive officer, Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, said the deal provided it with “a very strong platform from which to attack the UK market” – the only major European country where it does not offer fixed line services.
Tele2 will provide the telecommunications expertise and infrastructure and The Post Office the branding and distribution network for the new service which will be positioned as a low cost brand for national long distance, international and fixed to mobile calls, and will, Tele2 said, offer customers substantial savings.
Distribution company CityMail Sweden has turned around its profit margins just months after the British Post Office bought a controlling share in it.
Read MoreSture Wallander had recently done some research on volumes of mail to Sweden and had found that the top 10 countries (At the top Finland, UK, Germany & Norway) send more mail to Sweden in a week than all the others put together do in a year. I.e. more than 98% of Swedens inbound mail comes from the top 10 countries.
Read MoreUpdate on the BvDP postal liberalisation index including key data.
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