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Table of Contents

Postal Messaging and Services
Messaging Forums and Free Information
Unified Messaging Providers
3G & 4G Wireless Vendors
Messaging Anti-Spam, Security, Privacy & Trust
E-Service --Enhanced Email based Sales Support & Customer Care Solutions
Web Mail Providers
Instant Messaging
Messaging Vendors

Postal Messaging and Services
 

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Overview of Hybrid Messaging Integration with Postal Services

@Post  Presentation

@Fulfilment Presentation

Postal Messaging Workshop Agenda

Intellectual Property IP 2010   
International Postal Corporation POST*INFO

Post 2005 Study by the Universal Postal Union under:  Post 2005 - Follow Up and Trends; UPU established in 1874 by 19 members has grown into 190 country postal administrations as members, represents an industry with over 6,200,000 employees and more than 650,000 postal outlets, responsible for distributing over 450 billion letters and parcels annually, see UPU Postal statistics and Postal Reform. Universal Postal Union > What we do >> Postal Economics; UPU Strategy Bucharest Discussion Paper

PostEurop is the Association of 43 European public postal operators.

.post  UPU works to establish .post, an Internet top-level sponsored domain. The Universal Postal Union, on behalf of Posts worldwide and associated industry bodies, is looking to enhance access to universal postal service in the electronic world by establishing a top-level domain on the Internet – .post. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has assigned .post to the UPU. This means that Posts worldwide could one day use the .post domain to offer new electronic services, or provide citizens with an electronic address that matches their physical address, for example. A top-level domain would also enable many developing Posts to enter the electronic world more easily, as well as helping Posts develop a brand that would be recognized the world over.  For the UPU, .post is the ideal way to create a universal electronic postal service that fulfils the expectations of citizens and governments worldwide in terms of security and stability. .post would allow the UPU to create a global electronic postal network establishing more than 660,000 post offices via the Internet, alongside the single territory for the exchange of international physical mail.

USPS Postal Facts

European Parliament press release full competition in postal services across the European Union from 2011, two years later than originally planned.

FFPI: The Free & Fair Post Initiative

The Global Post

UPU: Intelligent Mail – The business perspective

Intelligent Mail for Letters and Flats

Address Formatting Guidelines

[PDF] The Universal Postal Union (UPU) international address standard ...

International Address Formatting Guidelines for many countries of the world
A very useful resource that contains address formats for nearly all countries of the world, and lots of other useful information.

USPS - Publications; USPS - Mailing & Shipping Guidelines Learn how to address your mail correctly so that it qualities for automated processing. Essential for bulk mailing.

USA, EU, Canada Uniserv Data Quality Solutions
Powerful address correction and verification for many European countries, US and Canada.

USA The National Address Server
Corrects and completes misspelled or incomplete addresses, adds ZIP+4 code (January 2002 database).

USA USPS Address Verification Resources
This page contains a collection of links to various sites and companies, that provide address verification services.

USA Postal Explorer Quick Service Guides

France La Poste Web Site
Contains visual guidelines on how to address your mail properly.

UK Royal Mail Addressing Guidelines
A complete guide for addressing envelopes for automated processing.
Explanation of the UK postcode system

Learn how to address your mail so that it can be machine-readable for rapid, economical and sure mail sorting.

Australia Post Addressing Guidelines
To ensure that your mail reaches its destination quickly, Australia Post has developed a series of correct addressing guidelines.

PDF] Comparing Postal Address Data of CEN/TC331/WG3 and xNAL Framework

mCorrection® Intelligent Address Lookup system

AdressVision.com

FRANK'S COMPULSIVE GUIDE TO POSTAL ADDRESSES as part of THE KERMIT PROJECT AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

Universal Postal Union > UPU News Centre >> Papers on Postal sector

EPIC Postal Privacy Page

The Postal Service Regulation of Commercial Mail Receiving Agencies (CMRAs)

Check out PostInsight for "A Review of Price Elasticity Models for Postal Products" (Alan Robinson) and"The Influence of Government Laws and Regulations on Mail Volumes" (Anna Owsiany). Check also Financing Postal Universal Service: An Initiative to Sustain the Debate in the European Parliament. Funding Universal Service Obligations in the Postal Sector

Irish ComReg postal regulation and strategy for 2005-2007

NAA UNVEILS STRATEGY TO STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S POSTAL SYSTEM

MAILERS’ TECHNICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
U.S. Postal Service DMM Advisory
Mailers Council accounts for as much as 70 percent of USA's mail volume.
Presort.Com - Direct Mail Marketing Resources
UPU Direct Mail Advisory Board

Returned Mail Solutions, Inc. (RMS), a leading UAA Solutions company, today announced the release of optiMAIL. optiMAIL enhances current front-end data configurations as well as back-end print, mail, lettershop and logistics for Direct Mail. This solution is targeted towards a hard-line reduction in annual Direct Mail postal budgets of 5-10%. More information is available at www.directmailreturns.com and www.returned-mail.com/uaa.html

Business: Publishing and Printing: Printing: Products: Direct Mail   (184)
US Postal Solutions
ELSAG DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE POSTAL SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES WORLDWIDE 

Competition and Innovation in Postal Services - Google Books Result by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer - 1991 ..

Competitive Transformation of the Postal and Delivery Sector - Google Books Result by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer - 2003 - Business & Economics

USPS - Innovations@USPS

IBM - Postal Solutions
EDS - Postal Services: Mail Management Software, Postal Solutions

Document Management, Direct Mail, Postage Scales - Pitney Powes Mail Trends 2008
USPS - Postal Solutions Pitney Bowes Europe - Postal Solutions
Association of Alternate Postal Systems (AAPS)
National Association of Postmasters of the U.S
National Association of Major Mail Users NAMMU eView

U.S. Postal Service Resources on ZDNet

Private Postal - Welcome to Postal Nation - Postal Resources for private postal stores and consumers

Direct magazine
Direct Mail Resources - UPU
Mail Services|Postal|DIRECTORIES
Is There a Future for Mail?
Schmid, Greg (May 2003). "Two Scenarios of Future Mail Volumes" (PDF). U.S. Department of the Treasury.
News and Resources for Federal and Postal Employees
PostalNews.Com
PostInsight
Postal Mag.Com
Postal2020.com
Inter. Mailers Advisory Group
Rocket City Mail Handler
Direct's "News Line"
DM News
Mailing Systems Technology
Direct Marketing News
Catalog News
Paper Industry News
Printing Industry News
Postal News Blog
CEP News (Courier-Express-Postal)
Logistics News
Transport Intelligence
Trucking/Transportation News
Output Links serving High volume transaction output (HVTO) industry is a high value market that spans the computer, printing and internet industries. The focus of the HVTO industry is to assemble, produce, manage and deliver high volumes of individualized transaction documents created to either print or internet output devices.
Postal e-volution - The future of mail service in the digital age
The Unconstitutionality of the Laws of Congress Prohibiting Private Mails:

19th century American individualist anarchist Benjamin Tucker opposes USPS monopoly

NPR : Rate Hikes and the Future of Snail Mail
[PDF] The global postal market: past,present and future indicators
[PDF] The Future of the US Postal Service: American and European
[PDF] US POSTAL SERVICE: WHAT CAN BE DONE TO ENSURE ITS FUTURE VIABILITY
 


Postal Technology International
POST-EXPO 2007
PostInsight: Selected Presentations from CRRI (15th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics), 31 May–2 June 2007
MAILINGSTUFF.COM, THE DIRECTORY OF EVERYTHING TO DO WITH MAIL
Association of Independent Mailing Equipment Dealers ( AIMED)
Flats Sequencing System (FSS)
U.S. Flat Mail Market 2002-2006
PostEurop is the Association of 43 European public postal operators.
National Association of Letter Carriers NALC
Mail Systems Management Association
 Mailing & Fulfillment Service Association
EMA Center for Postal Learning
The EMA Foundation for Paper Based Communication has just released a document by entitled First Class Mail and the United States Postal Service. It offers an analysis of current directions with regard to First-Class mail and some ideas about new products and services. The EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications’ Institute for Postal Studies has released its 2008 Economic Jobs Study. The report finds there are approximately 8.4 million jobs and more than $1 trillion in revenue associated with the mailing industry in the U.S.
USPS - Postal Customer Council
USPS Welcome to Business Mail 101
USPS Financials
National Postal Forum (NPF)
Postal Service Seeks to Deliver Via IT
DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY IN THE POSTAL SERVICE (PDF)
UPU Postal Technology Centre
International Postal System Light, IPS Light, Postal Technology
[DOC] Business Model of the Postal Service
E-substitution Review of the Models on Price Elasticity of Postal Product has been uploaded onto www.postinsight.com
The UK's Postcomm (the Postal Services Commission) has published its draft business plan for 2007-2008.

An Economic Framework for Understanding the Internet-driven New Economy

Post Europe - The Association of European Public Post Operators
Every PO in the world
Five-year plan from USPS - FY 1998 to 2002
Postal Reform Proposals
NALC: Postal Reform
USA HR22 - House Subcommittee on Postal Reform
CAPS The Consumer Alliance for Postal Services (CAPS)
[PDF] Postal Reform Bills: A Side-by-Side Comparison of HR 22 and S. 662
Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding the US Postal Service
European Commission Reports and Studies of Postal Services
 2014 - Postal and Legislative Information - Mailing & Fulfillment ...
Postal Service Privatization by Cato Institute: Is It Time to Privatize the Postal Service?
Postal service privatization - Wikipedia
Postal service privatization: Information from Answers.com
What Would Happen If the Post Office Had Competition?
Japan Approves Postal Privatization
Deutsche Post World Net | The sixth trend - deregulation and ... deregulation and privatization
Deutsche Post Global Mail to acquire US mail companies SmartMail Services and QuikPak Inc.
NCPA Privatization Issues - US Postal Service Isn't Competitive ... should US follow the example of successful postal-service privatization in England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Sweden?
The Liberalized Swedish Postal Market
H.R. 22, "The Postal Modernization Act of 1999"
UPU EDI Messaging Standards  UPU Technical Standards  UPU TLD .post Application  Postal Addressing
Summary of Application of Universal Postal Union ... the construction of highly trustworthy messaging applications
PostX Corporation - Partners ... IBM Global Services IBM, PostX, e-BX and ErgoIDP have launched PostALL, a powerful multichannel messaging solution for postal service providers worldwide
The Needs of Postal Users

POST Info by Stefan Lindholm

Electronic PostMark : S-43 A Digital Postmark (DPM) is a technology that applies a trusted time stamps issued by a Postal Authority to an electronic document, validates electronic signatures, and stores and archives all non-repudiation data needed to support a potential court challenge.
POST*code standard : S-42
POST*CODE® database
ePostmarks
International Postal Corporation
IBM Global Postal Business – multichannel messaging
PostX Marketing and Technology Partnership with IBM
USPS Intelligent Mail:  Confirm® Service OneCode Vision™
USPS Web Tools: Address Information APIs, Delivery Information APIs, Rate Calculators APIs, Shipping Labels APIs and Carrier Pickup™ APIs
USPS Address Quality:

Address Information Systems (AIS) Database Products - Products to enhance address standardization.
Address Management Products - Tools for addressing software solutions.
Address Management Services - Evaluation, grading and certification services.
Address Management Publications - Publications related to Address Management products and services.
ZIP Code® Lookup and Address Information
Contact Address Management

 

RIBBS - Rapid Information Bulletin Board System Web Site
Find quick links, locators and lookups, additional information on addressing products, downloadable files and more.
Looking for an Address?
Search Switchboard Inc.‘s Find a Business or Find a Person.
Mail Preparation Total Quality Management
A web-based program designed to assist mailers in ensuring quality during the design and preparation stages of the mail.
Address Management System (AMS) Office Locator
Locate an AMS Office.

USPS - Options for Receiving Mail
... USPS Site Search. ... Verify the delivery date and time of your mail and packages with
Delivery Confirmation™ and Signature Confirmation™ services. ...

 

USPS - Proof of Delivery
You can request Proof of Delivery to be emailed, faxed, or mailed to you for no
additional fee for Express Mail® and Signature Confirmation™ services. ...

 

Registered Mail™ – Provides maximum security and date of delivery or attempted delivery.
Delivery Confirmation™ – Provides date and time of delivery or attempted delivery.
Signature Confirmation™ – Provides date and time of delivery or attempted delivery, the name of the person who signed for the item, plus signature proof of delivery upon request.
Special Handling - Provides preferential handling for fragile or perishable items.
Restricted Delivery - Confirms that only a specified person (or authorized agent) will receive a piece of mail. Only available with Certified Mail, Insured Mail over $50 Insured Mail , or Registered Mail.
Return Receipt - Provides a postcard with the date of delivery and recipient's signature.

DidTheyReadIt

 USPS Online Postage Solutions
Purchase postage and print labels from your computer using Click-N-Ship®.
Arrange to have your auction item sent online and pay using your PayPal® account at eBay®.
Print USPS® labels for domestic and international shipments with Endicia™ Internet Postage.
Manage your mail online with Pitney Bowes’ ClickStamp® Internet Postage. Group1 Software.
 
Print postage, get free supplies, and more at Stamps.com®. Also, see Zazzle.com Customized Postage.
Create and send mail online using NetPost® Services.

 

Pitney Bowes Buys MapInfo for $408m

 

USPS FY 2007 Statistics: 150m delivery points, employs nearly 800,000 staff, 37,000 outlets serve 10m customers daily, $70b pa revenue,  delivers more than 46 percent of the world's mail volume -- some 212 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year.
USPS taps Internet to lift mail services
Project 21 New Visions: An Untouchable Monopoly: The first official notice of a postal service appeared in the Colonies in 1639 to handle the correspondence between the colonists and England, and between the colonies. The establishment of a central postal organization in the Colonies came after 1691 when Thomas Neale received a 21-year grant from the British Crown for a North American postal service. In 1789, following the adoption of the U.S. Constitution, the office of the Postmaster General was created. At the time, there were only 75 post offices and a post office staff totaling just over 30 people - including the Postmaster General.Today, the United States Postal Service employs nearly 800,000 workers.

EC proposes full postal market opening by 2009

 

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste little dreaming. – Lee DeForest, 1926, American radio pioneer.

The former Mail2000 Inc. is nowadays the Mail Innovations subsidiary of United Parcel Service UPS – UPS acquired the Electronic Distribution and Production Company for hybrid mail for US$100m. See: UPS Mail Innovations - www.ups-mi.com

It's time keynote by Paul N. Carlin, CEO of Mail2000 and former USPS Post Master General; Hybrid Mail Advances: An Interview with Gene Johnson, MAIL: The Journal of Communication Distribution, November 1998

UPS - Company Information - Press Release  ... The chairman of Mail2000 is Paul N. Carlin, a former Postmaster General of the US Postal Service.

Start-up promises to speed mail - 1998-08-10 - Washington Business

patent number 6697843: Method and system for hybrid mail with distributed processing
... Paul N. Carlin, McLean, Va. (US); and Eugene C. Johnson, Chevy Chase, Md. (US).
Assigned to United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. (US). ...

Patentee Index
... Cl. 438-633. United Parcel Service of America, Inc.: See--. Carlin, Paul
N.; and Johnson, Eugene C. 06697843 Cl. 709-206. United ...
www.uspto.gov/web/patents/patog/week08/OG/patentee/alphaU.htm 

mypostalmail "When we receive your mail at our location, we immediately scan the outsides of the mail envelopes and wait for you to tell us what to do next. You can then login to your account over the Internet and manage your mail from anywhere in the world. After the mail has been read, you can choose whether to forward your mail to an address of your choice, to shred and trash it, or to have us open it and scan the content for viewing online. You can also sort your mail into different folders similar to how you work with your emails."

WIT Postal Logistics, postal planning, postal distribution, mail ...
Logistics Top 100
NAICS Definitions: 491 Postal Service

usps glossary of postal terms publication 32 and USPS Postal Acronyms

QSG 800 Glossary of Postal Terms and Abbreviations in the DMM
Nonprofit Mailers
A DISCUSSION PAPER ON "POSTAL SERVICE" DEFINITIONS " 

The Mail Marketing Glossary
Postal Acronyms & Abbreviations

What is logistics? -- A collection of Logistics Definitions
Logistics Directories:

  • International Heavy Transportation - Personal page with a number of links to international heavy transportation services.
  • ITSindex.com - A searchable directory of websites related to Intelligent Transportation Systems, traffic, transportation and similar areas of interest.
  • Leonard's Guide Online - Print and online directories of trucking, warehousing, third party logistics, air cargo and general freight transportation companies serving North America.
  • LogLink - Transportation and logistics directory search.
  • Routes International - Worldwide transportation reference site.
  • TrafficLinq - Traffic and transportation links.
  • The Transportation Directory - This site is a quick reference guide created to meet the Meeting needs of shippers and freight transportation companies. Telephone numbers and links to web pages.

Post-EXPO
National Postal Forum
Postal Systems by Wikipedia

... Others, including the US Postal Service, had tried to achieve what  Mail2000 set ... General Paul Carlin and former USPS executive Eugene Johnson, Mail2000 staked ...

UPS Mail Innovations by Mark Sheffield, former President, UPS Mail Innovations, Journal of Communications Distributions

U.S. Postal Service awards Elsag major R&D contract

ELSAG DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE POSTAL SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES WORLDWIDE

Mailstation 2(TM) -- Pitney Bowes - Pitney Bowes Launches dMail™ Executive Mail Management Solution
DM1000™ Mailing System  through IntelliLink® Technology

Pitney Bowes Wants to Tap $250B 'Mailstream' Marketplace within a $900 billion global category called the mailstream

www.pb.com/mailstream Group 1 Software - Direct Marketing Applications Products MailStream Corporation

DST Output  complex documents, personalized marketing collateral and messages and print-on-demand Hybrid Mail.
QiQ L-mail Hybrid Mail Platform 28 print locations around the world

dBusiness News reports that "BÖWE BELL + HOWELL Print Stream Optimization receives technology application award from Xplor International

The Digital Mailroom BÖWE One solution

Postal Package Partner's Open and Distribute Module by WindowBook: Postal Package Partner™ and DAT-MAIL™ for providing best practice for handling Priority Mail Open and Distribute. The USPS® Priority Mail Open and Distribute service allows you to send sacks or trays of presorted mail pieces to postal facilities located closer to where the item will be delivered.


BÖWE BELL + HOWELL, a manufacturer of document processing and postal solutions, has entered into a strategic partnership with Sefas Innovation, a developer of integrated software solutions for designing and producing business documents.

Royal Mail after Liberalisation

 

Cheer up! The worst is yet to come - Philander Johnson

POSTNET, PLANET, RM4SCC, FIM, 4-State Code and Australian Post Bar Codes

Intelligent Mail® Barcode In January 2009, mailers will be required to meet one of two options using Intelligent Mail barcodes to access automation prices for letters and flats. The Intelligent Mail Barcodes FAQs helps answer a variety of questions related to the Federal Register proposed rule as well as current use of Intelligent Mail barcodes. The new Guide to Electronic Documentation and Appointments for Full-Service Mailings will help mailers prepare for the May 2009 implementation of Intelligent Mail barcodes. For customers familiar with existing electronic documentation solutions, the guide details how to populate your files and how to create or update electronic appointments to take advantage of the full-service option. Those unfamiliar with electronic documentation should begin with the PostalOne!® Getting Started Guide at www.usps.com/postalone/guides.htm."  

FuturePundit: US Postal Service Intelligent Mail Proposal
U.S. Postal Service: 'Intelligent Mail' Fully Operational by 2009
Beyond the Barcode - Building Blocks for Future Paper-Based Communications
Bills, Statements and Payments – Paper and Electronic Delivery, Alex Fu (Pitney Bowes), Future of Mail: Paper No. 2007-4, August 2007

Get a UPC Bar Code for any retail product
IT-Director.com has reported that "The Post Office last week launched ‘Payout', an electronic version of a postal order which allows companies to send a barcode to a mobile phone.

DirectMailQuotes.com -- Expert Advice The PLANET Code Bar Code looks similar to the POSTNET Bar Code. But, the PLANET Bar Code uses the inverse symbology of the POSTNET Bar Code ...

USPS - POSTNET Barcode Certification
Introduction to barcode - Bar Code Symbologies
Open Directory - Computers: Software: Bar Code
Publication 25 Chapter 4: Bar Coding & Letter Design
The USPS has posted the specifications for the 4-state barcode (now renamed the "One Code Solution") for letter mail. Also, see Royal 4 State Barcode
[PPT] MITF Intelligent Mail  Reads POSTNET and PLANET bar codes anywhere on the mailpiece.
Technology Postnet and Planet Code use two distinct vertical bar types: short and tall. ... Matrix codes are the most space-efficient of the 2D bar codes. ...

Mailing Online trial service by the United States Postal Service

USPS Online strategic direction United States Postal Service The U.S. Postal Service employs nearly 800,000 workers (mostly unionized) in roughly 38,000 post offices, delivering 200 billion pieces of mail annually. Its annual revenues of more than $65 billion would rank it No. 11 among the Fortune 500 companies. USA's $900 billion mailing industry has 9m workers and 9% of US GDB. USPS Strategic Transformation Plan 2006-2010.

Balanced Scorecard and Performance Management in the U.S. Postal

President's Commission on the United States Postal Service – Final Report
Postal Service Pursues 'Intelligent Mail' Despite Privacy Concerns

Top 100 Postal Service Contracts 2004

Top 150 USPS Suppliers for FY 2004 (pdf).

USPS Online PostalOne! is a suite of online services that allows the Postal Service to electronically collaborate with its business mail customers.
USPS Hybrid Services

USPS Commission White Paper ... Online Postage and Intelligent Mail; Hybrid and Reverse Hybrid Mail

PitneyBowes Inbound Mail Sorting

Interroll

BÖWE BELL + HOWELL > Inbound Mail Sorting

EuroSort Flat Sorting

USPS investment in 44 letter automation programs was $5.6 billion during 1987-1994 with an estimated ROI of 90 percent. Sortation cost per thousand pieces of mail was reduced from $20.20 in 1989 to $7.42 in 2003. This is equivalent to a reduction of 75,000 full-time positions and an annual cost savings of $5 billion.

PDF] GAO-03-3 United States Postal Service: Opportunities to Strengthen IT Investment Management

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