Presentation by James Campbell to the Associaton of Postal Commerce.
Contents: Overview of Markets
II.Universal Service
III.Postal Monopoly
IV.Regulation
V.Evolution of National Post Office
VI.Postal Reform Process
VII.Lessons, etc.
Pitney Bowes Inc. launched a new strategic business plan yesterday designed to tap into a USD250 billion market opportunity within a USD900 billion global category called the mailstream. The company marked the event by ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Pitney Bowes’ chairman/ CEO Michael J. Critelli said the concept of the mailstream will be the company’s organizing principle with customers, shareholders and employees. The mailstream is the sum of all mail and documents, both physical and electronic, flowing in and out of a business, as well as the people and systems that enable it. Mailstream content includes direct marketing collateral, bills and monthly statements, catalogs, parcels, letters, invoices, magazines, DVD rentals and anything sold and purchased through eBay. Pitney Bowes begins the direct mail part of the campaign next month targeting its existing high-end customer base.
Read MoreTwo hundred delegates from all sides of the industry met in Miami this week at Triangle’s 3rd World Mail & Express Americas Conference and Exhibition. The overriding conclusion from the event is that there will undoubtedly be more cooperation in the Americas between the public and private sectors in mail as well as in express. Customers’ presentations stressed the need to encourage more innovation from the post offices.
Gabriel Mateescu, Chairman of the Council of Administration of the UPU, discussed the development of the UPU Consultative Committee as several delegates felt that this should be regionalised.
The presentation from Guatemala Post Office highlighted the new business model of government outsourcing the management of a post office. Correos de Chile talked of its successful partnership with TNT.
Read MoreThe US Postal Service reported today it concluded fiscal 2005 with a net income of USD1.4 billion on record revenues of USD70 billion and record volume of 212 billion pieces of mail. “Financially, we are in the best position we’ve been since the 1970s,” said Postmaster General John E. Potter at the December meeting of the Board of Governors. “Despite the strong financial and productivity records of recent years, we are facing a modest increase in postage rates in January.” The January 8, 2006 rate increase was compelled by legislation enacted in 2003 requiring the Postal Service to put aside over USD3 billion each year into escrow beginning in 2006.
Read MoreTeamsters at the Miami International Airport (MIA) DHL gateway facility overwhelmingly approved a four-year contract yesterday, gaining wage increases, a pension plan and job security language.
By ratifying the contract, the 130 workers at MIA became the third DHL gateway location to be protected by a Teamster agreement this year. Miami gateway workers are joining 300 DHL Teamsters at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and 150 gateway workers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).
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