It may be fashionable these days for express companies to talk of logistics and supply chain management solutions, but for FedEx the boom area in the Middle East remains the traditional document traffic.
With rapid growth in service indus— tries in the region, FedEx has seen increases of up to 27 percent in its document traflic in the past year.
Pitney Bowes is pitching emailAngel, an e-mail address correction and forwarding application, as a new online business opportunity for postal organizations.
Pitney execs argue that emailAngel, developed by the company’s docSense business unit, puts a lid on the growing problem of undeliverable e-mail because of changes in e-mail addresses. Typical e-mail churn rates are put at about 25% and upwards of 50% on campuses. Businesses are estimated to pay $20 or more to resolve undeliverable e-mail messages.
Since posts already provide physical change-of-address services, they’re supposed to be suited to handling e-mail changes as well.emailAngel is supposed to work like this. Customers register their change of e-mail address with a postal authority to enable e-mail forwarding. The posts then use that large database of e-mail addresses to provide businesses a means of forwarding undelivered mail for a small fee. Postal outfits can also enter into revenue-sharing partnerships with other businesses such as credit card companies for their database and sell correct e-mail addresses to businesses with a customer’s permission.Pitney says that posts could offer email-Angel under their own brand.Postal outfits implementing email-Angel are supposed to benefit from the added web traffic to cross-sell and up-sell other products and services.For consumers the two key benefits are supposed to be assured message receipt and the knowledge that their e-mail address is lodged in a permission-based network that maintains their privacy.
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Read MoreMaersk Logistics, has completed the acquisition of assets and operations from US logistics company Distribution Services Limited (DSL), effective immediately. (10/15/2001)
Maersk Logistics will take over transload and warehouse operations, along with ocean transport intermediary business from DSL.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service’s (UPS) less-than-container-load service for Asia-US shipments Gemini Shippers Association – ceased operating at the end of last month, according to spokesmen. (10/15/2001)
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