Promotional E-Mail Delivery To Become New Revenue Opportunity.
By 2005, about 5.6 bil e-mail messages expected to cross networks of Internet and e-mail service providers.
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Boxing in Express: Trends analysis
The future has arrived at the air express industry and it’s come packaged in a box. In sorting hubs around the United States, the express operators that built businesses by getting premium prices to ship letters and documents overnight in standardized envelopes are seeing growth in that lucrative trade crumble under the weight of electronic communications. In a world becoming accustomed to the instant transfer of material anywhere, overnight delivery doesn’t look so fast anymore and the express carriers are adjusting in ways that promise to have an impact across a world of companies that delivery goods by air.
Read MoreGoing Dutch: TNTs interest in the US
While most express and regulatory eyes in the United States have been on Deutsche Post’s prospective move into the domestic American market, TNT International Express has had other plans. The express unit of the TNT Post Group, the Dutch postal operator, is starting up a domes-tic delivery operation that looks to skim some of the cream off the top of the world’s largest air express market and to at least partly close a long-standing gaping hole in TNT’s international network.
Read MoreGoliath VS. Goliath – US air-express market
The battle for the lucrative US air-express market is attracting giant
foreign
competitors with government backing, notably Deutsche Post’s DHL Airways and
TNT
Post Group’s TNT International Express USA; trade groups lobby for protection
Your Digital Certificate Is In the Mail
Postal services worldwide are concentrating on the market offered by the
Internet by issuing digital certificates; the United Nations is trying to
develop standards that would allow the digital certificates to be used in
different countries
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