Archive for August, 2010
Zumbox Lines Up GovDelivery
Zumbox, the US start-up that wants to turn paper mail into e-mail delivered to a digital mailbox that corresponds to the recipient’s street address, has lined up another big mailer to experiment with its concept. A few weeks ago DST Output, which produces and delivers nearly three billion electronic and print mail pieces to more [...]
Editorial: Mobile Sensors on Postal Trucks Revisited
Last week I took a look at some ideas that Michael J. Ravnitzky, a lawyer at the US Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) who, acting as in his capacity as a private citizen and enquiring mind, set down in a paper outlining how the USPS might employ a variety of sensors and other data collection devices [...]
Deutsche Post Enters Web Ad Biz, Buys ‘Predictive Behavioral Targeting’ Platform
by Tim Negris Deutsche Post AG, the mail side of Deutsche Post DHL, has acquired nugg.ad (http://www.nugg.ad/en/), a provider of technology and services for enabling highly targeted online ad campaigns, on undisclosed terms. Since its founding in 2006, Berlin-based nugg.ad has grown into the largest firm of its kind in Europe, offering software and services [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 500 (September 6-10, 2010)
Deutsche Post Enters Web Ad Biz, Buys ‘Predictive Behavioral Targeting’ Platform Zumbox Lines Up GovDelivery Editorial: Mobile Sensors on Postal Trucks Revisited Accenture to Postal Industy: Diversify, Digitalize, or Die Poll Shows Most UK Voters Want To Keep the Mail Public, Sort of USPS Overpaying Retirement Fund by Billions – Again Delayed Delivery Services Taking [...]
CFH Hybrid Mail Gets Boost
CFH has gotten a framework agreement for its Docmail service from Buying Solutions, which means the document and mail processing house will be supplying its two year-old hybrid mail widgetry for public sector contracts throughout the UK for the next four years. Buying Solutions is an executive agency of the Office of Government Commerce in [...]
Top PRC Lawyer Has Bright Ideas for New Postal Revenues
By Tim Negris Have you ever been really broke? What did you consider doing to raise some cash? Rifle the kids’ college fund? Sell your only car? Take in dodgy lodgers? Dire desperation has a way of blurring the line between creative and crazy, and, in the blooming USPS budget crisis, one particular postal apparatchik [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 499 (August 30 – September 2, 2010)
Top PRC Lawyer Has Bright Ideas for New Postal Revenues CFH Hybrid Mail Gets Boost Estonian Post Shops for Parcel Terminals Entrust Launches Publicly Trusted Certificates for Secure E-mail Newspapers to PRC: ‘No’ on Exigent Rate Increase Brits Losing Their ‘Stiff Upper Lip’ Stamps.com & Magento Partner Latest Entrust Software Uses Smart Phones to Neuter [...]
USPS Told To Go Digital: Report
Major customers told the United States Postal Services that it needs to start offering electronic services if it expects to survive in a world where communications are turning completely digital. What these services might be is a question since the USPS is forbidden by law to compete with the private sector, which seems to have [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 498 (August 23-27, 2010)
China Post Taps Acxiom To Grow Direct Mail Biz in China USPS Told To Go Digital: Report China Post Partners with TOM Group in Ambitions E-Commerce Venture New EC Group Targets Postal Service Quality Across the EU Oz Post Teams with OfficeMax DHL Express Does Green Retail Shipping Out of Singapore UPS and USPS Work [...]
China Post Taps Acxiom To Grow Direct Mail Biz in China
Strategic pact will leverage database analytics to reach China’s growing consumer class In a Beijing ceremony attended by senior executives from both entities, Little Rock, Arkansas-based Axciom Corporation, a billion-dollar leader in direct marketing technology and services, signed a “strategic cooperation agreement” with the China Post Group “to jointly expand China’s direct mail business by [...]