Archive for January, 2012
Royal Mail Moves Toward Privatization
Britain’s Royal Mail has taken a couple more steps on the road to privatization. First, it’s signed a 10-year contract to continue to use the Post Office to sell stamps and handle packages after Royal Mail is privatized and the companies are broken apart. The move averts mass closures since the Royal Mail provides a [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 565 (February 6-10, 2012)
Deutsche Post, bpost To Fight EC Order To Give Back Subsidies Royal Mail Moves Toward Privatization USPS Reportedly Pushing Real Mail Notification Facebook To File for Massive IPO: WSJ Amazon Goes After Enterprise Data HP Commits to webOS Release Schedule Google & MMI Seek US Ban of iPhone 4S & iCloud Apple’s a WOW! Tucci’s [...]
USPS Contract Talks Collapse
After months of dickering, the United States Postal Service threw in the towel Friday and said that further contract negotiations with two of its union were futile. Collective bargaining had reached an “impasse.” Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC), acted surprised, issuing a statement saying, “I am disappointed by the [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 564 (January 30-February 3, 2012)
USPS Contract Talks Collapse SingPost Buys Novation Solutions E-Boks Appears a Raging Success EC May Order Return of Postal Subsidies Escher Part of Saudi Post Modernization An Post E-Bill System Registers 50,000 Users USPS Certifies Abaq.us GPS Location Service S&P Downgrades Ozzie Post Microsoft’s New Cloudware Could Cast a Shadow over VMware AWS Offers Free [...]
eBay, SingPost & USPS Ally
eBay Singapore, the Singapore Post and the US Postal Service have gotten together to boost Singapore-US trade. eBay has launched a new B2B ePAC shipping service that’s supposed to improve the 24/7 tracking and delivery of lightweight goods. It has two similar services: ePacket, set up in September 2010, to assist cross-border shipping between China [...]
Headlines – Issue 563 (January 23-27, 2012)
Court Finds RPost Patent Valid EC Intent on Creating a Single Digital Market in Europe Pressure To Suppress Paper Mail Mounts RPost Claims To Create a New Class of Mobile Messaging USPS Apple App Scans Shipping Labels Verizon To Keep USPS Communicating Aquilent Gets Contract To Support USPS.com Daily Operations Oracle Goes to Cloudera for [...]