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Headlines – Issue No. 580 (May 21-25, 2012)
USPS Refuses To Send Electronic Gizmos Overseas Pitney Bowes Gets Facebook Contract USPS Sued over Automation Contract USPS Abandons Idea of Shutting Rural Post Offices US Commerce Department Team with DHL To Increase US Exports Yahoo’s New CEO is Toast: WSJ Intel & McAfee on Mission To End Cloud Nail-Biting Windows RT Raises Antitrust Specter [...]
ePostal News – Issue No. 552 (October 17-21, 2011)
Apple Enters the Hybrid Mail Business RPost’s Patent Suit against Swiss Post Fast-Tracked USPS Pushed Toward Pre-Paid Cards Zumbox Picks Up its First Utilities SingPost Names New CEO USPS To Upgrade its ID Systems Software Deutsche Post Trades Pay Cuts for Job Guarantees Oracle Goes Cloud OpenStack To Move to its Own Foundation Whitman Promises [...]
Goodmail is Toast
Goodmail Systems, the eight-year-old CertifiedEmail authenticator born to get “pay-to-play” bulk e-mails passed spam traps, will turn up its toes on February 8, killed by an aborted acquisition by Symantec that was supposed to save it after it lost a key deal with Yahoo almost exactly a year ago. CEO and co-founder Daniel Dreymann told [...]
USPS Picks Ventureforth for Fleet Maintenance Operations
The United States Postal Service has selected Atlanta-based Ventureforth’s mobile and disconnected solutions for maintenance work order and spare parts management, integrated with Oracle’s E-Business Suite eAM and supply chain solutions. The value of the contract was not disclosed. Ventureforth’s Mi2K Work and Stores applications, powered by Syclo’s Agentry mobile platform, are meant to maintain [...]
Headlines – Issue No. 431 (February 9-13, 2009)
USPS Contemplates Cutting Deliveries Italian Post To Peddle USB Stick CVC Swaps Danish Post Shares for Belgian Pitney Bowes Talking the Digital Talk La Poste Goes with Open Source FedEx Updates Web Tracking Tools T-Systems Joins DHL Innovation Initiative Authentidate-Parascript Merger Terminated DocuSign Creates ‘Smart Envelopes’ Striata Teams with Goodmail PB Renames Pitney Bowes Software [...]
Swiss Post To Digitize Zurich Financial’s Mail
Swiss Post, which is going to pilot Earth Class Mail, the digital mail option, has gotten a multi-year contract from Zurich Financial Service Group, the paper-heavy insurance company, to deliver and manage some of its document processing services. Swiss Post, or rather its MailSource subsidiary, isn’t going to use Earth Class technology to service Zurich [...]
DHL Looks East
In retreat from its failure in the US, DHL is looking east. Deutsche Post CEO Frank Appel told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the express unit would buy small companies in Asia. It expects to get them on the cheap because of the world’s economic stress. DHL has invested $2 billion in Asia in the [...]
NetPosti To Traffic in Junk Mail
It looks like NetPosti, the “spam-free” e-mail service that Itella says isn’t an e-mail service but rather an “online transaction service” commonly used for bills, banking, pay slips, prescriptions, investments and official forms, will also be handling junk mail from now on. NetPosti has tied up with Edita, the state-owned marketing communications company, whose customers [...]
Lack of Demand Forces FedEx To Shear its Outlook
FedEx expects to report better-than-expected results for the November quarter, but ripped up its fiscal 2009 projections. Fuel prices might have plunged but so has the US economy, it said. FedEx figures it earned $1.58 a share its last quarter when analysts put the number at $1.51. It’s supposed to report final results on December [...]
Pitney Bowes & Zazzle Team on Corporate Promotions
Pitney Bowes and Zazzle, the Stamps.com-like vanity postage and promotions outfit, already joined at the hip, have launched an online retail center for customized business products. Pitney is the postage engine behind Zazzle’s customized postage. The pair is currently pushing the idea that organizations can personalize and purchase promotional products on-demand with discount incentives to [...]