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Update 21 June 2014:
Digital Post Australia will cease operating over the coming weeks due to
lack of demand from consumers and businesses for its electronic post
service. The organisation was originally a joint venture between
Computershare and Fuji Xerox Document Management Solutions. Since its
November 2012 launch Digital Post had attracted less than 1,000 customers
demonstrating a market failure for closed digital document systems.
Digital Post Australia had earlier successfully defended Australia Post’s
allegations of trade mark infringement, misleading and deceptive conduct,
and passing off.
UPU Postal Insight: The postal
sector employs some 5.5 million employees to process and deliver 433 billion
domestic letter-post items annually, as well as some 5.5 billion
international items and over 6 billion parcels. Many Posts also offer
express mail, financial and electronic services.A United Nations specialized
agency, the UPU has 192 member countries and is based in Berne, Switzerland.
PostEurop is the
Association of 48 European public postal operators.
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.
ICANN | .post New sTLD
RFP Application ..
ICANN and the Universal Postal
Union (UPU)
have reached an agreement in principle for the UPU
sponsorship of the .POST Top-Level Domain. Final approval of the
agreement is subject to ICANN's public comment process (which will commence
after ICANN concludes its meeting in Seoul on 30 October 2009), and
consideration by the Board of Directors.
TNT History: In
1946 33-year-old Ken Thomas establishes K.W Transport in Australia
with a single truck to become Thomas Nationwide Transport TNT in 1958
21 Mar 2012 –LONDON
(Reuters) -United
Parcel ServiceInc (UPS)
should not face problems funding its 5.2 billion euros ($6.9 billion)
acquisition ofTNT...
Is Obama's FedEx / UPS argument 'Realistic'Obama is using Fedex and UPS vs the Post Office to prove
competition between Private Companies and Government funded companies.
FedEx and
UPS are NOT allowed to set 'Postal Routes' to deliver mail door to door to
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Mail.XML 8.0B. The FAST system will stop supporting Mail.XML 6.0D on October
28, 2011. For Full Service Data Distribution, the USPS®currently
supports Mail.XML 7.0C, 8.0B and Mail.XML 8.1. ThePostalOne!system
will stop supporting Mail.XML 7.0C and Mail.XML 8.0B versions on October 28,
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information.
7 March 2013
Email 'obsolete'Australia
Post chief:
AUSTRALIA Post chief executive Ahmed Fahour
says the email age is coming to an end as more people look to safer online
mailboxes.
28 May 2009...Advertisingrevenuefrom
direct mail is expected to plunge 39%, from $49.7 billion in
annual...according
to a newforecastfrom
Borrell Associates....The
USPostal
Servicealso
experienced unprecedented declines in...
CRI English:
China's postal industry reaped a business revenue of 97.34 billion
yuan (15.45 billion U.S. dollars) in the first half of the year, up
24.4 percent year-on-year, the State Post Bureau said Wednesday. The
postal industry has witnessed rapid progress in the first half, with
better structuring and improved enterprise capabilities, said the
bureau at a mid-year work conference. The country's above-scale
logistic enterprises made nearly 2.4 billion deliveries in the first
half, up 51 percent year-on-year and exceeding the total delivery
volume in 2010, according to the bureau.
Postal Technology Reports:
Deutsche Post DHL reveals strong growth in 2012:
Deutsche Post DHL has
revealed that its operating profit rose 9% to €2.76bn (Ł2.37bn) in
2012 on sales up 5.1% to €55.5bn (Ł47.8bn), and is predicting that
earnings will rise by an annual average of 13-15% between 2010 and
2015. According to figures released on Tuesday 5 March, operating
profit (EBIT) in the Supply Chain division rose 14.9% to €416m
(Ł358m) on sales up 8.4% to €14.3bn (Ł12.3bn).
Dead Tree Edition:
Despite downsizing and other efficiency measures, the U.S. Postal
Service's productivity levels have decreased in the past year. USPS
delivered fewer than 139 mail pieces per work hour in July, a 3.7%
decrease from the July 2011 level of 144 pieces, according to
preliminary numbers the service released Tuesday. The agency's net
loss for the month was $1.327 billion, nearly $300 million more than
planned and more than $500 million worse than last year.
post.com
10 August 2012:
The Postal Service released its unaudited third
quarter financials for Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 which showed a $5.2
billion net loss, compared to a $3.1 million net loss for same
period last year (SPLY). The Postal Service reassured all
stakeholders that it will continue to make payment to all employees
and suppliers while delivery to every address every day ...
The U.S. Postal Service ended the 2012 fiscal year (Oct. 1, 2011
– Sept. 30, 2012) with a record net loss of $15.9 billion, compared
to a net loss of $5.1 billion for the same period last year.
USPS
year-to-date loss $11.6 billion for the first nine
months of 2012
risks
large mailers may flee from U.S. mail to other forms
of advertising, communication and shipping..
Associated Press:
The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported losses
of $57 million per day in the last quarter and warned it will miss
another payment due to the U.S. Treasury, just one week after its
first-ever default on a payment for future retiree health benefits.
US Senate approves 21st century Postal Reform
Act
S 1789 “Today the Postal Service incurs a daily loss of US$25
million and has a debt of more than US$13 billion. Based on our
initial analysis of the legislation passed today, losses would
continue in both the short and long term. “The Postal Service has
advanced a comprehensive five-year plan that would enable revenue
generation and achieve cost reductions of US$20 billion by 2015 –
restoring the Postal Service to long-term profitability. PostCom reports on 19 August 2011:
Postal Service chief financial officer Joe Corbett:
Postal costing methods are accurate to the 95% confidence
level.
The Postal Service has reduced significantly workhours and
workforce complement. The workforce has been reduced from
778,000 career people to 560,000.
The USPS has taken out $19.1 billion in costs since the year
2000.
In 2011, the USPS anticipates losing between $8-9 billion by
year-end.
Total mail volume is down 22%, First-Class is down 28%,
Standard is down 22%.
Through June, USPS has taken out 25.2 million workhours.
Automation gains are close to being exhausted.
More than half of USPS workhours are due to delivery.
Need to move on reducing days of delivery from six to five.
Need to control benefits plans costs.
USPS needs to get down to 425,000 career employees by 2015
to begin to make a profit.
By 2020, the USPS expects First-Class mail volume to halve
when compared to volume in 2010.
Network optimization could reduce processing facilities from
more than 500 to about 200.
StreetInsider: As part of the U.S. Postal Service's (USPS) plan
to save as much as $3 billion annually, the agency plans on selling
252 out of 487, or 52 percent, of its mail-processing centers.
12 October 2011
Anatomy
of a successful well-run postal service:
Australia Post
pre-tax profit of $332.3 million, up from $253
million: letter volumes
f fell by more than 3 per cent for the fourth year in a row,
resulting in a loss of $91.3 million but thanks to online
shopping boom parcel volume growth of 10.9 per cent which drove
parcels revenue up 5.3 per cent and resulted in a 36 per cent growth
in profit over the past 12 months.
28 April 2012
Wall Street Journal:
China Postal Express & Logistics Co. said Saturday it plans to raise
CNY9.98 billion ($1.59 billion) in an initial public offering ahead
of a listing in Shanghai, which could be the largest offering in
China so far this year.
27 April 2012
Wall Street Journal:
Taxpayers got routed in the Senate on Wednesday when a $34 billion
bailout of the U.S. Postal Service was approved on a vote of 62 to
37. The postal unions were the big winners. They held off reforms
that would have meant layoffs and benefit restructuring, at a
minimum. The Postal Service is expected to lose as much as $12
billion this year. By some estimates, it will need to reduce its
work force, which currently numbers 530,000, by some 100,000
employees to have any hope of breaking even. Amazingly, even the
postal management complained that the Senate bill "does not provide
the Postal Service with the speed and flexibility it needs to
achieve the $20 billion in cost reductions" that it must make in
coming years.
US Postal Service facing 28,000 job
losses Vice-President David Williams told a news
conference that the closures were designed to stave off bankruptcy
next year. Out of 461 mail-processing centres across the US, 252
will be shuttered starting from next April. The move could spell the
end for next-day delivery of first-class mail.
2 Mar 2010...The
cash-strapped U.S.Postal
Serviceannounced
Tuesday that it will incur about $238 billion inlossesin
the next 10 years if Congress... money.cnn.com/2010/03/02/news/economy/usps/
16 Nov 2009...The
USPostal
Servicereported
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With junk mail on the rise,
more-profitable first-class mail is down in the last decade, dropping to
78 billion pieces delivered in 2010 from 103 billion pieces in 2001,according
to the Postal Service.Carrier
said every 1 percent decline in overall mail volume equals $300 million
in lost revenue and with more declines anticipated, “we just want to
slow it down”.
AustraliaPostachieves
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challenging conditions. Friday, 15 October 2010.AustraliaPosttoday
announced that in the face of historic declines in ...
6 May 2010...U.
S.Postal
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La Poste Group generated revenue of Euro 20.939 billion, up two percent
over 2009. Euro 11.538 billion came from the mail business and its
subsidiaries, down 1.2 percent but
percent for the press, -0.8 percent for registered letters and
advertising mail). The Parcels/Express segment recorded revenue of Euro
4.841 billion, up 6.3 percent.
5 Aug 2009...Until
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mail volume in the past three years (Image courtesy of
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discusses the need for restructuring the USPostal
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achieve sustainable...
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Govt-owned business to boost online services.
UPS reports strong growth across all segments
UPS announced adjusted diluted earnings per share of US$0.93 for the third
quarter of 2010, a 69% improvement over the prior-year period. Global
revenue grew 9.3%, generating US$1.5 billion in adjusted operating profit, a
62% increase..
21 Jun 2012
–United
Parcel ServiceInc.'s
5.16 billion-euro ($6.5 billion) cash offer forTNTExpress
NV begins tomorrow and runs through Aug. 31 as the U.S....
IPC-BCG Focus on the Future Report
This new annual publication takes a broad view on the future of the postal
sector, exploring its key drivers, examining its financial performance and
portfolio options, and providing a business review of the main markets it
serves.
29 Jan 2009...Experts
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USPostal
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Futureof
U.S.Postal
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Washington Journal. Ruth Goldway talked
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Serviceis
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The U.S. Postal Service
is a federal agency in crisis. Annual mail volume
has declined by more than 40 billion pieces since
2006, accompanied by nearly $6 billion in annual
revenue declines during the same period. USPS posted
a $2.6 billion loss in the first half of fiscal 2011
and expects to run out of cash by the end of the
year. To combat declining funds, USPS is improving
technology, cutting legacy systems in favor of more
efficient processes and downsizing its workforce.
.
The U.S. Postal Service has examined plans to consolidate its mail
processing and transportation network. However, the fundamental questions
still remain: what should the mail processing and transportation network
look like to meet future demand? And how many plants will be needed? A
former deputy postmaster general suggested that in order for the Postal
Service to be fully efficient, its footprint must be much smaller, possibly
comprising 150 plants, and 400,000 employees. Another stakeholder said the
current network is twice the size it should be. Are these reasonable asse
The new OIG white paper,
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and meet or exceed most existing service performance. Ignoring
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outline of a modernized network that could meet future demand. We invite
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15
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planning to introduce a “free online postal service
which...--zumbox-join-forces-launch-digital-post-australia...
21
Mar 2012 –Australia
PostFaces
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- Media...by
joining with US developerZumboxto
createDigital
Post Australia...
ThePostalService
must establish a pivotal role for itself in this new emerging world to ensure
its future relevance. 4Postal
Ecosystemis the term used
for the markets ...
3 Mar 2010...Technologyis
behind the significant decline in the U.S.Postal
Service'smail
volume -- and losses -- but mobile applications could be... www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100303_9347.php
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Dead
Tree Editionhas
told its readers that "High costs that outweigh any postage discounts and
poorly trained Postal Service employees are keeping most business mailers
from using Full Service Intelligent Mail barcodes, an extensive study
concludes. Of the 290 business mailers surveyed by USPS’s Office of
Inspector General, 58% said they did not use Full Service IMbs because of
high start-up costs and software requirements. Only 23% of the surveyed
mailers said they were using Full Service."
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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. 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.
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
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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
The chairman of
Mail2000 acquired by UPS is PaulN.
Carlin, a former Postmaster General
of the US Postal Service.
patent number 6697843:
Method and system for
hybrid mail with distributed processing ...PaulN. Carlin,
McLean, Va. (US); and Eugene C. Johnson, Chevy Chase, Md. (US). Assigned to United Parcel Service of America, Inc., Atlanta, Ga. (US).
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Deutsche Post DHL goes hybrid
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Postal Sector Sustainability-International
Post Corporation
Global postal sector’s sustainability programme approach
to carbon emissions reduction has saved the postal sector more than
US$400 million, according to the International Post Corporation (IPC).
The figures were announced as IPC publishes the 2011 Postal Sector
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mypostalmail
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discontinued/scam?
"When
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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
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.
Deadtree Edition
has reported that "Several industries and occupations related to printed
materials will be among those with the worst job losses through 2018
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GEMADECFounded in 1977, GEMADEC offers its Hybrid
mail solution ePost/Open2, which has been chosen by numerous postal
organisations around the world, including Deutsche Post, Moroccan Post,
Tunisian Post, Algerian Post, Libyan Post and the Post of Senegal.
From
PR.com:
"MATV launches its online mail portal for Same-Day & Next-Day Mail
delivery to any address in the U.S. MATV, Mail Across The Void (
www.mailacrossthevoid.us
) The world's first online document solution and mail delivery service
company- today introduced the most competitive service available for
urgent same-day and next-day documents, originating from anywhere on the
worldwide web, for delivery to businesses and residents in the United
States. Customers (within: financial services, banking, insurance,
advertising, publishing, or other industries where document delivery is
critical) can now receive and send same-day and next-day documents,
data, and mail, for delivery to any address in the United States."
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.
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.
... Others,
including the US PostalService, had tried to
achieve what Mail2000 set ... General Paul Carlin
and former USPS executive EugeneJohnson, Mail2000
staked ...
UPS Mail Innovations
by Mark Sheffield, former
President, UPS Mail Innovations, Journal of Communications Distributions
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
DTP Systems
platform allows you to control, and select the most appropriate output
channel - electronic or print, and automatically route or choose from
one of our Globally distributed print partners
Earth Class Mail™provides
a comprehensive online mail management solution from Package & Mail
Forwarding to Virtual Mail Rooms
-
offers 55% cost savings to average
125 hours per year per SOHO handling inbound mail costing
$4,375.
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.
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.compostaloneguides.htm."
DMM Advisory PostCom: ThePostalOne!® system processes 99.49%
Full-Service mailings in less than two hours: With nearly 5,000
Full-Service electronic files submitted between 15-20 November 2009, 90%
were processed by PostalOne! in less than 10 minutes, and 99.49%
were processed in less than two hours. The remaining 0.51% that took
longer than 2 hours to process was large volume mailings that are
complex in nature and submitted by a limited number of mailers. The
Postal Service™ continues to work with this group of mailers to improve
performance issues.
Internet-Powered
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then view images of ...
Guide to Intelligent Mail for
Letters and Flats - v4
PostalOne! Technical Guide for
Mail.XML
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.
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.
is the secure, electronic equivalent to your
regular physical mail box. It is the secure electronic post box of the
future. With Swiss Post Box you have access to your physical mail online any
time, from anywhere. Manage your physical mail online as easily as email
that first scans the envelope of your mail without opening it,
then sends you an email with an image of that envelope. Then you tell what
to do with each unopened piece of mail:
Open and scan the contents
confidentially and under the strictest security measures
so that you can read the contents online.
Send the unopened letter(s) to
an address of your choice.
Recycle your letter.
Shred and dispose of your
letter.
Archive the contents as for as
long as you want or as long as the law requires.
Swiss Post
IncaMail
Send and receive e-mails with IncaMail
just like a registered letter securely, conveniently, and verifiably without
installing further software. You make sure that only the intended recipient
can read the message. In addition, you receive a digitally signed Post
receipt on request.
Online PO Box & Mail Forwarding - Secure 24/7 web access to
postal mail and parcels. Read, forward, recycle, shred from
anywhere - PO Boxes or prestige NYC, ... www.earthclassmail.com
Zebra Technologies helps companies
identify, locate and track assets, transactions and people with
on-demand specialty digital printing and automatic identification
solutions in more than 100 countries around the world.
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.
Symbol's
two dimensional bar code data file
developed by Symbol, is the framework of the new digital stamp technology used
by the Postal Service in its PC Postage program which enables users to log on to
the Web, buy postage with a credit card, and print smart digital PDF stamps
directly on envelopes at home. 300,000 US Postal Carriers Track Mail with
Symbol's Scanning Computers.
: A messenger (Pheidippides)
ran about 25 miles, from Marathon to Athens, to announce the defeat of the
Persians. At the end of the march he died of exhaustion.
Pitney Bowes
and
RPost®,
in managed outbound messaging with its Registered E-mail® services, have
entered into an alliance. Pitney Bowes will offer RPost Registered E-mail
services to its mailstream customers. By adding RPost services, Pitney Bowes
can now provide its customers with outbound messaging tools for client
records management, compliance, e-discovery, paper reduction and cost
reduction initiatives. RPost Registered E-mail messages provide e-mail
senders with verifiable proof of message delivery, content and time stamp
for e-mails sent to any Internet address.
Delivery Services,
Logistics Solutions - UK
- ParcelXchange™ is a technically advanced, outdoor drop box
distribution system for companies with a need for a secure delivery
services solution.
Scalaris collection,
digitalization, analysis, management and archiving of large
quantities of unstructured information that are selectively usable
„on-site" or as Cloud service. Intelligent Document Processing IDP.
Reverse Hybrid Mail RHM.
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U.S. Postal
Service Post Office Boxes now can be found online at
https:usps.compoboxes.
The new, online locator feature allows customers to find box
availability, sizes and fees, as well as addresses, phone and fax
numbers for each Post Office listed with available PO Boxes.
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Reverse Hybrid Mail involves an online interface where you log into a secure
site to view and manage your mail online. You receive your own address for
your mail to be sent to, either Po Box or street address and then instead of
your mail piling up through your front door it will be accessible online 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, from anywhere in the world. With your own secure
account you will be able to easily view scanned images of ALL your received
envelopes online, then choose to have your mail securely scanned so that you
can view online, recycle, shred or forward to you or someone else.
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Letter to Congress re:
junk mail regulation
.. national do-not-mail registry ..
According to
Recordnet,
"Junk mail is more than just an annoyance. It's an environmental
crisis, it violates personal privacy, and it fosters identity theft,
according to a group spearheading a grass-roots campaign to create a
Do Not Mail Registry. The effort is being modeled after the highly
popular Do Not Call Registry that put the brakes on unsolicited
phone calls five years ago."
[PostCom EdNote: This
spurt of anti-advertising mail activity has been spurred on by the
recent press release from
Forest Ethics.]
The
May 2009 Direct Mail Advisory Board Update from the
Universal Postal Union has been posted on this site.
The Nation has reported that "The Government on
Monday sent home Postmaster General Fred Odhiambo.
Senior officials at the Ministry of Information and
Communications confirmed the decision to send home the
postmaster, but there was no word yet on who is to
replace him at the head of the Postal Corporation."
May 24, 2009
"A decline in the air cargo freight market following the
international financial crisis seems to have hit bottom,
the head of the International Air Transport Association
said on Sunday. Air cargo, a key barometer of world
trade, has slumped amid the global economic downturn and
shortage of financing. Global air freight volumes in
January saw a record 23 percent year-on-year dive. "I
would say, looking at the numbers, that it has hit
bottom," the global association's Director-General
Giovanni Bisignani told
Reuters."
Scotland On Sunday has reported that "the
Communication Workers Union has accused the government
of playing "political football" with the Postal Services
Bill, which sets out plans to part-privatise the Royal
Mail. The union is concerned that Business Secretary
Lord Mandelson will try to rush a vote on the bill in
the House of Commons before the European elections in an
effort to tame a rebellion from Labour backbenchers.
Unions were surprised to learn that the bill received
its first reading in the House of Commons on Thursday,
sparking fears that the second reading will be held
before 4 June. They say this will not only limit the
time for debate but could force many Labour backbenchers
who are staunchly opposed to privatisation to side with
the government out of fear of making the party appear
fractured before voters go to the ballot box."
May 23, 2009
Barron's has noted that "FedEx is considered an
airline, for the purposes of regulatory oversight, even
though most travelers probably wouldn’t want to book a
flight to Memphis on one of its jets. At least, no
passengers who saw ”Cast Away” are going to be less than
anxious to. For one thing, there’s no meal service. But
FedEx’s days of being viewed as an airline by government
regulators might be running short. A legislative
proposal has suggested transferring FedEx’s regulatory
status to the National Labor Relations Board from the
National Railway Labor Act. The implication for FedEx:
the move could make it easier for labor unions to
organize its pick-up and delivery personnel."
According to
Associated Content, "The U.S. Postal Service (USPS)
has come one step further in its quest to deliver mail
just five days a week instead of six."
Bloomberg has reported that "United Parcel Service
Inc., whose political action committee has given more
money to federal lawmakers than any other company over
two decades, is a major beneficiary of legislation
approved by the U.S. today House that would reauthorize
the Federal Aviation Administration. The measure
includes a provision making it easier for rival FedEx
Corp. workers to unionize. Under the measure, drivers
for Memphis, Tennessee-based FedEx could form unions
locally rather than hold a national election. UPS’s
truck drivers are members of the Teamsters Union. UPS
says the legislation would level the playing field, as
unionizing would likely bring changes in pay and work
rules that would raise FedEx’s costs."
MyFoxMemphis has reported that "Some people are
finding warnings from the post office in their mailbox,
instead of their mail. Jocelyn Agnellini only gets her
mail a couple times a week. The post office says when a
car is parked in the proximity of her mailbox; they will
not deliver her mail. On those days she finds a note in
her mailbox explaining why she has no mail. "So they're
taking the time to put the note in the mailbox but they
won't put the mail in the mailbox," says Agnellini. But
when she has complained to the post office, all she
received was an email of their policy. It reads:
"Dismounting from the vehicle to make mail delivery to a
box would put our carrier's safety in jeopardy."
The
Mount Airy News wants to know: "The post office has
always been known for getting the mail to its
destination through rain, snow, sleet and hail. So why
can’t it have a stamp machine that works?"
According to
The Gleaner, "We cannot replace institutions like
the post office and the bonding it created as a
by-product, but we can learn from and apply their
wonderful side effects of building and sustaining
relationships."
From
PR Web: "The idea behind Creative Mailers.com is
less = more. To send out fewer mailers to get more
response."
According to
The Mirror, "Opponents of plans to sell off Royal
Mail are infuriated that a controversial Bill, paving
the way for its partial sale, was sneaked into the
Commons for its first reading. The Postal Services Bill,
championed by Peter Mandelson, had a final reading in
the Lords on Wednesday. MPs expected to debate it in the
Commons next month."
Belorusskie Novosti has reported that "Zhanna
Litvina was reelected chair of the Belarusian
Association of Journalists (BAJ) at the organization’s
7th convention held in Minsk on Friday. Access to
information is one of the main problems that journalists
in Belarus face, Ms. Litvina said, pointing to the
accreditation requirement as a method of restricting
access to information. She also noted that the
government holds a monopoly on the distribution of
newspapers. According to her, as many as 13 non-state
publications are denied distribution contracts with
Belposhta, Belarus' state postal services monopolist,
and Belsayuzdruk, a state monopolist that runs a network
of newsstands and stores across Belarus. “Unfortunately,
there are no hopes for reform in the media sector,” she
concluded."
Some notes on other advertising-based media:
As
Contentinople has noted, "It's no secret that
conventional radio has been in a world of hurt
lately, due to challenges from the Internet, the
iPod, and, to a lesser extent, satellite radio.
Remedies remain elusive, but consolidation and
downsizing are a start toward stabilizing the
industry. Radio is a dynamic living laboratory of
what works and what doesn't. Focus on the listeners
through research and innovation, and you see ratings
increase. When you give listeners what they want,
they'll support your radio station and its
sponsors."
The
Washington Post has noted how change is coming
to newsweekly magazines. "Newsweek will concentrate
on two things -- reporting and argument -- while
kissing off any recap of the week's developments.
Time will continue to recount some of the week's
news but is concentrating on long-form journalism
about people, about ideas. Will a smaller magazine
have less cultural clout? Such recent cover stories
sparked a flurry of op-eds, suggesting that the
power of ideas still trumps circulation." [EdNote:
Give people what they want, and they'll pay for it.
Give them something they don't, and they'll walk
away. The same also is true of postal services.]
The
New York Times has asked: "Will May 2009 mark
the beginning of the end for the free, unfettered
Internet?...I wouldn’t put my money on it....Few
newspapers generate even 10 percent of their revenue
on the Internet, even after years of double-digit
growth in advertising. Now online advertising has
gone into reverse. But “pay walls” alone are not
going to save the industry. Few people will
individually subscribe to dozens of different
newspapers online."
The
State Journal-Register has reported that "The U.S.
Postal Service is looking at relocating some
mail-processing operations from a Quincy distribution
center to Springfield as the agency tries to cut costs
in the face of declining demand and rising financial
losses."
CNN has reported that "The U.S. Postal Service will
reduce the amount it pays for homes of employees who are
relocating in the wake of a CNN investigation that found
it was buying large homes for more than $1 million. The
Postal Service bought this 8,400-square-foot South
Carolina home so an employee could relocate. The new
policy, which is expected to take effect June 14, will
set a limit of $800,000 for a home. The limit is now $1
million, but before February there was no maximum."
"The Postal Service’s decision to suspend a convention
leave benefit for the remainder of the current
Postmaster pay agreement is tantamount to a breach of
faith, if not contract, with the nation’s approximately
27,000 Postmasters," O.
Dale Goff Jr., national president of the National
Association of Postmasters, charged. Goff was
reacting to the agency’s abrupt and ill-conceived
decision to suspend, effective May 31, Postmasters’
convention leave for the remainder of FY-09 and all of
FY-10. Prior to May 31, the Postal Service said it will
not attempt to convert to annual leave the approved
convention leave some Postmasters already have used this
fiscal year.
May 22, 2009
The
Nashua Telegraph has reported that "New Hampshire
Congressman Paul Hodes on Thursday called upon the U.S.
Postal Services Inspector General to investigate claims
that supervisors shortchanged carriers by tampering with
electronic time-keeping systems in Milford and
Manchester. The New Hampshire branch of letter carrier’s
union, the National Association of Letter Carriers, has
filed grievances charging that postal service managers
in Milford and two Manchester Post Offices have altered
the hours worked by letter carriers roughly 800 times in
the past six years, shorting the carriers a collective
total of about $12,000. Hodes’ Washington, D.C. office
released a letter that he wrote to the Inspector
General’s office on Thursday, urging that the office
investigate the grievances and report back to Hodes by
June 5."
U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General’s
Internet site “Pushing
the Envelope.” The
public, mailers, postal employees, and other
stakeholders are invited to weigh in on the online
discussions taking place. To view the site, visit
https://blog.uspsoig.gov/.
Use of Industry Best
Practices in Processing Parcels.
PostEurop
"The
Facts of our Value Chain."
It deals with the myths vs. the realities of mail and
the environment.
According to the
New York Times,
"most marketers readily concede it: getting rid of direct mail — or
junk mail, as environmentalists and most recipients call it — would
save a lot of trees. But they are not about to render bulk mailings
obsolete. So a group of direct-marketing companies, are banding
together to make an inherently unsustainable practice at least a
little bit greener. The group calls itself the Green Marketing
Coalition, and it includes Microsoft, Washington Mutual and
OptimaHealth. The United States Postal Service has taken out a
trademark on the term “environMAIList” to refer to marketers that
adopt greener mail practices and try to make direct marketing more
eco-friendly: Although direct-mail accounts for only 2.4 percent of
landfill waste, many opportunities are available to lessen its
environmental impact even more.
,
The Washington Post, 20 January 2008.EPA
Junk Mail Reduction
Thirteen US States introducing
bills for 'Do Not Mail' registries. Direct mail continues to be one of the
most popular forms of marketing, with spending topping $55 billion in 2005.
Wikipedia on Direct
mail,
also known as junk mail,
advertising mail or admail, is the delivery of
unsolicited advertising material to recipients of postal
mail.
It forms a significant subdiscipline of
direct marketing.
Some organizations attempt to help people opt-out of receiving
advertising mail, in many cases motivated by a concern over its
negative environmental impact.
Sustainable Life
won "How to stem the tide of unwanted postal intrusions."
JunkMail
"The
average American is now eight times
as likely to receive a piece of junk mail as a personal letter. According to
the U.S. Postal Service, about half of us enjoy receiving bulk mail, and one
person in twenty would actually like to receive more. But that leaves over
40% who would like to receive less mail .. Americans received more than 77
billion pieces of junk mail - up from 28 billion pieces in 1979. Virtually
every single household in the country - 99.2 percent - now receives junk
mail. Statistically, your household is now more likely to receive junk mail
than to have a working toilet. Last year, we cut down more than 15 million
trees to produce 1.8 billion pounds of undeliverable junk mail .. Since
1971, the Direct Marketing Association (DMA), the trade association for
direct mailers, has operated a Mail Preference Service containing the names
of individuals who do not wish to receive direct
mail .."
DMAChoice – DMA’s Suite of
Preference Services
Learn more on how to manage
your communication preferences or remove your name from promotional lists.
..
Consumer Information
..
Reducing Junk
Mail
National Law Journal
has noted, "Bills to stop the
sending of unwanted mail, which are modeled after the do-not-call phone
registries, have been introduced in nearly a dozen states, raising
fundamental legal questions about states' ability to regulate the U.S.
Postal Service".
Privacy Rights
Clearinghouse –
Privacy Rights
- Provides comprehensive overview, strategies and contact information
regarding unwanted mailings.
Junkbusters –
www.junkbusters.com
- a site dedicated to helping people eliminate all types of unwanted
communications through information and contacts.
GreenDimes –
www.greendimes.com
- a fee-based service that offers catalog screening and mail monitoring;
partners with other organizations to plant trees replacing those used to
create junk mail.
ProQuo –
www.proquo.com
- a fee-based service to protect consumers from unwanted junk mail and
identity theft.
New American Dream –
www.newdream.orgjunkmail
- An environmental and social justice organization offers free
information and fee-based services for eliminating unwanted mail.
Private Citizen Inc. –
1-800-CUT-JUNK. - A fee-based service strategy to “dramatically reduce”
junk mail and telemarketing calls.
To be removed from national
mailing lists, visit
www.privacyrights.orgLettersjm1a.htm
for a form, send a letter and $1 to the address below, or charge the
dollar fee at
www.dmaconsumers.orgcgioffmailinglist.
Names are placed in a “do not mail” file, which is updated monthly and
distributed to DMA members on a quarterly basis.
When postal service was a
leader in technology:
The London Pneumatic Despatch
Company
was formed on 30th June 1859,
and its Act of Parliament empowering the Company to open the streets and lay
down tubes received the Royal Assent on 13th August 1859.
Electronic Postmarks Promoted:
Microsoft bundles Post Office's
digital authentication service in Office 2003.
The EPM
program uses technology developed by Microsoft and content security company
AuthentiDate. It allows a document's creator to save a unique time- and
date-stamped record based on the file's exact content in an EPM repository
maintained by the USPS
web-based SMIME solution for
universal, secure communication applications powered by Tumbleweed
Postal Electronic Courier Service by USPS, Canada Post and La Poste
initiative. Discontinued by USPS. Supplied by Tumbleweed. Also, see
www.PostX.com
The
International Post Corporation
(IPC)is a cooperative association of 23
national Postal operators from North America, Europe and the Pacific that
delivers 445 billion letters a year - 65% of
the world's mail, domestic and international.
offers a web application that
enables customers to choose shipping services from shippers such as FedEx,
UPS, Airborne, the U.S. Postal Service and numerous same day courier
networks. The system also provides data interchange technology for timely
and accurate bill payment for hundreds of carriers.
Men might as well
project a voyage to the Moon as attempt to employ steam navigation against
the stormy North Atlantic Ocean – Dr. Dionysys Lardner, 1838, Professor
of Astronomy, University College, London.
Physical Standards 201 Physical Standards for Discount Letters
and Cards
PDF
or
HTML
201a Designing Letters and Cards for Automated Processing
PDF
or
HTML 201b Tabs and Wafer Seals
PDF
or
HTML
301 Physical Standards for Discount Flats
PDF
or
HTML
301a Designing Flats for Automated Processing
PDF
or
HTML
401 Physical Standards for Discount Parcels
PDF
or
HTML
401a Designing Parcels for Automated Processing
PDF
or
HTML
Extra Services
507a Business Reply Mail (BRM)
PDF
or
HTML
507b Courtesy Reply Mail (CRM)
PDF
or
HTML
507c Meter Reply Mail (MRM)
PDF
or
HTML
Abandoned: MentalPhysics, Inc., an e-commerce
“last mile” infrastructure company specialices in Internet-based solution to
residential delivery and return problems. Mental Physics is nowadays part of
Brivo Systems Inc.
zBox Company (www.zbox.com) offers a solution
to the 'last mile' problem of e-commerce, a "smart" home delivery bin - the
zBox. It is equipped with a 24-hour touch keypad and a proprietary
access system that generates a new access code for each package delivery.
Consumers only have to remember a single personal pin code to access the
zBox. Consumers can install the zBox in a convenient location of their
choice. zBox will not only receive packages, but will allow consumers to
easily return any online purchase without a trip to the Post Office or a
shipping counter. Consumers can leave return packages in the zBox for
pick-up.
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your letters, pictures & e-greetings with recipient's Postal address to
postme@freepostit.com
and ePOSTIT will deliver it to the recipient's Postal address totally free.
The ePOSTIT®
New generation mailing service
supports connectivity via email or mobile, mobile & any other electronic
media to the traditional postal mailing service or vice-versa.
What can be palpably more
absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as
stagecoaches – The Quarterly Review, England, March 1825.
Listing of links
to online resources for the mailing industry. ...
Document · Mailing System
E-mail to Post the
postalservice
Results for the postalservice... forms processing,
data collection and document capture software with OCR, IMR, Barcode and
eforms. ...
[PDF]ePostal
News
... Hybrid Mail • e-Logistics • Internet Postage • e-Forms
• Procurement Portals ... The digital envelope
USPTO Patents on Hybrid Mail – Only a Small
Subset of Related Patents
Everything that can
be invented has been invented - 1899 - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of
U.S. Patents, urging President McKinley to abolish his office.
1691
Thomas Neale granted British
patent for American postal service.
Neale’s 21
year patent grant for a North American postal system from the British Crown
cost him only six shillings and eight pence a year but was no bargain. He
died heavily in debt.
It would seem that making money out of patents has never been easy ..
An
excerpt from Where Wizards Stay Up Late, by Katie Hafner and Matthew
Lyon.
Internet Histories
- There are many Internet histories listed on
this page, some of which mention e-mail's place in the history of the Net.
From The
Internet Society. The First E-Mail Message -
Article by Todd Campbell in Pretext Magazine.
Deutsche Telekom Chief Executive Kai-Uwe Ricke says
that 60 billion e-mails sent daily worldwide. Ben Livson comments that
emails sent now exceed forty (40) times the number of postal letters.
Free self-destroying email privnote write a private note sent
as a link with the link purged after read receipt.
Using various products,
services and technologies to transfer messages from one person to another,
or from one device to another such as traditional numeric or alphanumeric
paging, e-mail or short messages (SMS) delivered to wireless devices. Back
to the top.
www.telestial.comglossary.htm
www.whatis.com
ICT glossary and resources; In
a network, the messaging feature is a software tool that enables information
distribution according to more or less complex processes. Messaging defines
the conditioning mode of messages, the distribution mode, the priority and
security level, and the process of information acknowledgment by addressee.
The Internet Engineering
Task Force (IETF) is a large open international community of network
designers, operators, vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution
of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is
open to any interested individual. IETF has sponsored most messaging
standards since early 1980s starting J. Postel’s SMTP
RFC 8211 August 1982 and
MIME RFC
1341
June 1992.
an industry consortium
dedicated to standardizing Web-enabled business processes and facilitating
the exchange of information across the global supply chain. RosettaNet is a
subsidiary of the
Uniform Code Council, Inc.(UCC).
Ferris ResearchThe
Museum of Email and Digital Communications
Radicati Group
-
April 2010: The number of worldwide email accounts is
projected to increase from over 2.9 billion in 2010, to over 3.8 billion by
2014. However, Social Networking currently represents the fastest growing
communication technology among both consumers and business users, with over
2.1 billion accounts in 2010 which are projected to grow to over 3.6 billion
accounts by 2014.This
represents an average annual growth rate of 8% over the next four years.
Worldwide email traffic per day totals about 135 billion messages, of which
67% are spam. Approximately 65% of worldwide email mailboxes are delivered
through a webmail service provider or ISP. Messaging software growth rate is
estimated at 9% pa until 2009 but 23% growth forecast for instant messaging.
Mobile phone mailboxes currently account for only 2% of worldwide active
mailboxes but wireless is expected to grow by 300% by 2009. Revenue in the
messaging software market, including all segments, totaled approximately
$2.6 billion in 2003, and is forecasted to reach $4.4 billion by 2007. The
hosted email is expected to grow from $2.3 billion at the end of 2003, to
$3.1 billion in 2007. Revenue for anti-spam solutions will grow at an
average annual rate of 38% over the next four years, reaching $2.3 billion
in 2007. Worldwide email traffic will total 210 billion messages per day in
2008. By 2012, this figure will almost double to 419 billion messages per
day. In 2008, 63% of all traffic will be consumer, and 37% will be corporate
email messages. The installed base of the wireless email market is
forecasted to grow from 14 million in 2006, to 228 million in 2010. May 11,
2007: email client worldwide installed base to reach 2.4 billion clients by
year-end 2007, and grow to 3.2 billion clients by 2011. Worldwide e-mail
accounts are growing faster than e-mail users at an average annual rate of
8%.
using email address style SIP
URLs SIP Center
for Session Initiation Protocol
RFC2543 email survey of 1.3 million installed mail server product
distribution
... UNCEFACT and OASIS announced efforts are now underway to integrate SOAP
1.1 and SOAP with Attachments specifications into the ebXML Messaging
Specification
are a
FREE provider of email information and links, currently listing over 1000
free email service providers.
Providers of free POP3 email
fetch via the web
emailaddresses.comemail_pop.htm
Sending large
emails as a file transfer without clogging email servers:
Drop.io,
GigaSize.com,
SendSpace.com,
or
YouSendIt.com.
No software to install: Simply choose the file to send, and then name one or
more recipients. After the file uploads, the service sends the recipients an
e-mail containing a link for downloading the file.
Dovecotis an
open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems,
written primarily with security in mind. Timo Sirainen originatedDovecotand
first ...
January 3, 2007:
In 2006, revenue in Unified Messaging market totaled $3.8 billion, and this
figure is projected to increase at an average annual rate of 56% over the
next four years. The Hosted Wireless E-mail market will grow quickly
over the next four years. The installed base of this segment will increase
at an average annual rate of 121% over the next four years, rising from 3.8
million seats in 2006, to over 89 million seats in 2010.
Well, if I
called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
Developer Market News Research
Library: Unified Messaging
Communications) | Internet Multicasting | IP Videoconferencing Services | IP
Videoconferencing Software | Unified Messaging, by
KnowledgeStorm, Inc.
CommuniGate
Unified Communications: CommuniGate Systems announced the availability of
CommuniGate Pro 6.0, which includes enhanced S/MIME and SRTP security encryption
features for email and VoIP communications, and a new Pronto! HTML5 client.
www.communigate.com
(UK) SMS PageMail SMS messaging
and Expressway 2000 access your Exchange mailbox form a WAP enabled mobile
phone.
Sweden's SendIt.com forms part of Microsoft
Mobile Internet Business Unit (MIBU) enabling receive, forward and send
email to mobile terminals including email alerts, retrieve email, reply to
emails and forward stored messages to other Internet addresses or fax
machines.
Well informed people know it is impossible to
transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing
would be of no practical value. – Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865.
3G Wireless: The compassion of the IRS
The efficiency of the Postal Service All at Pentagon prices!!!!
Seen on a bumper sticker
Messaging revenue doubles to USD 69 billion by 2007
… wireless MMS & SMS
messaging
volumes will quadruple over the next few years, from 670 billion in 2002 to
2600bn in 2007 … one minute of voice telephony generates less than one
dollar per megabit of network resource consumed, compared with over one
thousand dollars per megabit for an SMS message. Europemedia.net: News
- MMS:
The installed base of the wireless email market is forecasted to grow from
14 million in 2006, to 228 million in
2010. Wireless E-mail Market
installed base will increase from 12 million mailboxes in 2006, to 199
million mailboxes in 2010. This represents an average annual growth rate of
103%. North America and Europe currently account for 96% of the global
wireless e-mail market. However, this percentage will decline over the next
four years as demand for wireless e-mail in the AsiaPacific market soars.
according to
Nextel
last year US users sent over 62
billion push-to-talk messages. Push-to-talk
systems use the "always-on", low cost data network GPRS (General Packet
Radio Service) to send messages from one mobile phone to another.
The Partners have agreed to co-operate
in the production of globally applicable Technical Specifications
and Technical Reports for a 3rd Generation Mobile System based on
evolved GSM core networks and the radio access technologies that
they support
The Association acts as a focused
forum where industry players get together to develop the GSM
platform to the benefit of the members, investors, administrations
and ultimately customers.
UMTS is a part of the International
Telecommunications Union's 'IMT-2000' vision of a global family of
'third-generation' (3G) mobile communications systems
The WAP Forum is the industry
association comprising over 500 members that has developed the
de-facto world standard for wireless information and telephony
services on digital mobile phones and other wireless terminals.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay
Radicati.com
January 3, 2007: Worldwide
Wireless E-mail market, including Corporate Wireless E-mail, Hosted
Wireless E-mail, Wireless Platforms, and Wireless E-mail devices,
generated nearly $4 billion in revenue in 2006. This figure is expected
to climb to nearly $19 billion by 2010.
The Advanced
Wireless Group is developing communications system solutions based on
Ultra-Wideband technologies. Products are based on a
revolutionary technology known as Spectral Keying, an innovative
approach to Ultra-Wideband communications ideally suited for
many commercial and military applications.
Industry leader in the development
of ultra wideband (UWB) systems for communications, radar and
geopositioning.
UWB FAQ
Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology... What is ultra wideband
technology? What are the advantages of UWB technology? What are
some of its disadvantages? ...
UWB Communications
The origin of ultra wideband (UWB) technology stems from work in
time-domain electromagnetics begun in 1962 to fully describe the
transient behavior of a certain class of microwave networks
through their characteristic impulse response... Technical
Papers
A not-for-profit open industry
forum, was formed to develop and adopt standards-based
specifications for connecting personal area, wireless multimedia
devices. The WiMedia Alliance will establish a certification
program to accelerate widespread consumer adoption of
"wire-free" imaging and multimedia solutions. Initial Alliance
activity will be based on the high data-rate IEEE 802.15.3 draft
standard with amendments and enhancements planned for future
wireless systems such as ultra-wideband (UWB).
Multimedia messaging (MMS), which allows mobile phone users to send
text, pictures and sound, will overtake the increasingly popular
text-only (SMS) service by 2005, Swedish mobile maker Ericsson. SMS was
a little-known feature on GSM networks until around 1997 when operators
began to enable messaging between networks. Last year, an estimated
102.9 billion SMS messages were sent worldwide. Gartner Dataquest
expects the number of SMS messages to grow to 146 billion this year and
to peak at around 168 billion in 2003 before declining. It also expects
worldwide revenues from all forms of mobile messaging to almost double
to $22.3 billion by 2006 from $13.4 billion 2001.
With an estimated 350 billion SMS (Short Message
Service) messages sent per year, messaging is undoubtedly the leader in
mobile data services, producing over $1 billion in carrier revenues and
in some cases contributing as much as 20% to a carrier's bottom line.
uly-August
2005 statistics from
messagelabs.com:
Globally 65.8% of all email is spam, 25b emailsday with 15b spam, 7.5b
personal and 2.5b corporate email per day.
More than 95% of email is junk;
97% of IP addresses worthy of blocking according to
return path.
In October 2005, it’s estimated
that spammers sent 31 billion unsolicited bulk emails every day. In December
2006, it’s 61 billion – that’s over 700,000 every second according to
Telstra BigPond.
According to
Radicati
spam is forecasted to account for78% of worldwide e-mail traffic will be
spam in 2008. This figure will increase steadily over the next four years,
totaling 83% in 2012. However, only 56% of spam traffic is actually being
delivered to end users in 2008 - the rest is blocked by network or gateway
spam filters. This figure will decrease to 53% by 2011, as spam filters
increase in efficiency.
Radicati forecasts that the
e-mail security market for segments combined will grow from over $5 billion
in 2010, to more than $7 billion in 2014.
Despite improvements in anti-spam technology, about 18% of e-mail delivered
to user inboxes is still spam, and this is expected to grow to 19% by 2014.
Organizations poorly protected against e-mail threats pay a high price – in
2010, a typical 1,000-user organization spends over $3.2 million annually to
manage spam.
Symantec/ITWirereports that that in October 2009, the global
ratio of spam in email traffic from new and previously unknown bad sources
was 88.1 percent (1 in 1.1 emails), reflecting a 1.7 percent increase since
September, while the global ratio of email-borne viruses in email traffic
from new and previously unknown bad sources was one in 230.8 emails (0.43
percent) in October, an increase of 0.18 percent since September. In
October, 19.2 percent of email-borne malware contained links to malicious
websites, a decrease of 20.6 percent since September. Spam levels in
Australia are going through the roof, increasing by two percent to 92.7
percent of all emails received by business, and higher than the global
average.
:
It may be possible to implement a challengeresponse SPAM protection
system using custom SMTP Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) that
include an HTML confirmation hyperlink.
senderbaseEmail Reputation
Service is part of IronPort SenderBase® Network email traffic monitoring
network-tracking more than 25% of the world’s email traffic, from 75,000
participating organizations, also see
TRUSTe,
Habeas,
and
Return PathBonded Sender.
Radicati:
In 2007, Email Reputation
Services will protect roughly 332 million mailboxes around the world.
Spam's burden on networks, resources and lost
productivity amounted to more than $10 billion in 2003, according to
Ferris Research.
The
May 2009 Direct Mail Advisory Board Update from the
Universal Postal Union has been posted on this site.
"A decline in the air cargo freight market following the
international financial crisis seems to have hit bottom,
the head of the International Air Transport Association
said on Sunday. Air cargo, a key barometer of world
trade, has slumped amid the global economic downturn and
shortage of financing. Global air freight volumes in
January saw a record 23 percent year-on-year dive. "I
would say, looking at the numbers, that it has hit
bottom," the global association's Director-General
Giovanni Bisignani told
According to
