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Itella Buys Estonia Package Biz
Itella Corporation has acquired Smart Post OÜ’s package business in Estonia on undisclosed terms. It says the operation has built a locally unique service that delivers packages left in self-service vending machines. Transactions are arranged and tracked over the Internet. Itella figures the unit, popular with e-commerce companies and consumers, owns about 25% of Estonia’s [...]
Itella Tests Digital Delivery
Last Thursday Itella, Finland’s state-owned postal company, started an eight-and-a-half month experiment delivering mail digitally. It’s opening, scanning and electronically delivering the mail of 140 households and companies in the village of Porvoo all of whom volunteered to be guinea pigs for what Itella calls “alternative future mail delivery methods.” The experiment has been compared [...]
Itella Brags about iPost
Itella has put some numbers behind its expanded iPost hybrid mail service. It says that 105 million iPost letters were sent all around Europe last year, most of them in Finland, where the service has been in use since the 1990s. Last year the service was extended to cover Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Germany. At [...]