USPS MailPro Magazine – May/June 2008
MailPro is a free bimonthly publication for mailing professionals. It contains information on current Postal Service programs and services, rates and classification, mailing success stories and industry news. MailPro replaced Mailers Companion and Memo to Mailers January 2007
Read MoreRomaine Seguin, a 25-year veteran of UPS who has been leading the company’s South Europe District, has been promoted to Vice President of Operations for UPS’s entire Europe Region. In her new role, Seguin will be responsible for small package operations in 47 countries and territories throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Cindy Miller, a 20-year veteran of UPS who headed the Metro Chicago District, has been named Vice President of Operations for the company’s South Europe District. In her new role, Miller will be responsible for small package operations throughout Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, the Balkans, the Middle East and Africa.
Read MoreThe 2008 National Postal Forum is going to extremes to help businesses navigate the terrain of mail more smoothly. This year’s theme is “extreme performance” and workshops will offer attendees the opportunity to hear from industry experts on proven strategies for success.
The Package Symposium offers shippers the opportunity to learn how to cut shipping costs and how increased technology can provide a wealth of new information about packages. Recent changes in postal law offer the Postal Service unprecedented freedoms to develop new products and quickly bring them to market. Experts will host roundtable discussions on the latest case studies and market briefings.
Sustainability continues to take center stage. The Direct and Green Symposium shows marketers how to create successful direct marketing campaigns in a dynamic, resource-friendly way. Experts in the field offer tips on leveraging green-smart practices to improve consumer response.
Intelligent Mail barcodes will become a requirement for discount eligibility in 2009. Intelligent Mail can streamline addressing, preparation, acceptance, processing, transportation and delivery methods. At the Intelligent Mail Symposium, experts discuss how businesses can implement Intelligent Mail to achieve ultimate end-to-end visibility, improve address quality and turn data into information that can drive greater business results.
Delivery and logistics company DHL International GmbH and U.K.-based Borderlinx, a company that helps businesses ship goods from a number of suppliers, have partnered to assist U.S. e-retailers selling internationally. The deal aims to make it easy for U.S. e-retailers to ship abroad, and for foreign consumers to know how much they will pay for shipping.
Under the agreement, U.S. online retailers can integrate directly with Borderlinx to make their products available to the international marketplace. The integration provides web merchants with such services as order fulfillment and warehousing and shipping and delivery services out of DHL’s primary ground hub in Wilmington, OH, to any of the 225 countries and territories to which DHL ships. The hub location allows easy access to international flights, as well as late cut-off times for orders, according to DHL.
The five-year deal is aimed squarely at what Borderlinx founder Neill O’Sullivan says is huge demand among international consumers to shop U.S. e-commerce sites. Only a small percentage of the top 500 U.S. Internet retailers ship internationally, and O’Sullivan says the deal removes two key barriers preventing U.S. e-retailers from doing so—the inability of U.S. online retailers to easily sell and ship to foreign consumers, and the reluctance of an international shopper to complete a purchase without knowing the shipping fee.
When a U.S. merchant ties into the U.S. DHL/Borderlinx platform, consumers from abroad will see an international shipping button during the checkout process. A click of that button passes the transaction to Borderlinx, which calculates the total cost of getting the order from the merchant to the international customer, including the product price, the shipping costs and a Borderlinx service charge of about 10% of the product price.
Read MoreShares in Deutsche Post rose on Monday as traders cited market talk that U.S. package delivery company FedEx Corp was interested in buying a stake in the German mail and logistics group.
“There are rumors that FedEx wants to buy a 14-percent stake in Deutsche Post,” one trader said.
Deutsche Post had no immediate comment.
Deutsche Post shares were up 1.5 percent at 20.40 euro by 6:34 a.m. EDT, while Germany’s top-30 index .GDAXI was up 0.9 percent.
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