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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

 

 

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.

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. UPU: Non-traditional mail services on the rise  UPU: World Postal Strategy

 UPU postal perceptions

11.10.2012 - UPU delegates have adopted the Addressing Declaration

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.

.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. 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.

.post gains momentum

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

 

UPS-TNT deal to meet high funding appetite: sources | Reuters

 
www.reuters.com/.../us-ups-financing-idUSBRE82K13A20120321
21 Mar 2012 – LONDON (Reuters) - United Parcel Service Inc (UPS) should not face problems funding its 5.2 billion euros ($6.9 billion) acquisition of TNT ...
 

Obama: “Fed Ex And UPS Are Doing Just Fine, It's The Post Office That's Always Having Problems”. August 12, 2009.

 

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 Honestly, Fairly compete ...

USPS Postal Facts

Time to save the Postal Service (USPS)

US Postal Service to end Saturday letter delivery -- The Post Office Fiasco Shows Why America Is Doomed
 

AusPost CTO finding it difficult to make the transition from a 200-year old monopoly to compete against the likes of Toll, DHL and FedEx in the online space.

USPS explores entering the cloud business

Reuters: USPS tries to get smarter on routing

 

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

National Postal Forum

UPU: Intelligent Mail – The business perspective

Intelligent Mail Latest News

USPS: Electronic Documentation and Intelligent Mail: Ready, Set, Go!  US Postal Service pushes the digital envelope in battle for its future

US Postal Service faces ruin without rescue from Congress, watchdog warns
Intelligent Mail for Letters and Flats RIBBS: A Guide to Intelligent Mail for Letters and Flats .. Work with Business Mail Entry Units and Mailpiece Design Analysts to ensure barcodes meet specifications.
The Postal Service Role in the Digital Age -- Part 1: Facts and Trends (Report Number RARC-WP-11-002). How has the digital age changed your life?

Guides and Specifications Updates:To support the current release throughPostalOne! Release 25.0.0 on November 7, 2010, the following guides are updated and available for review at RIBBS>Intelligent Mail Services>Guides & Specs under Important Links

  • eDoc Process: A Guide for CPP Customers
  • Postal Service Mail.dat Technical Specification
  • Postal Service Mail.XML Technical Specification for Postage Payment & Reporting (eDoc)
  • Postal Service Mail.XML Technical Specification for Appointment Scheduling (FAST)
  • Postal Service Mail.XML Technical Specification for Profiles & Full-Service Feedback

DMM Advisory 26 March 2011: IMb™ Services Update. The Facility Access and Shipment Tracking (FAST®) and PostalOne!® Full Service Data Distribution systems will be upgrading to the latest IDEAlliance® Mail.XML® version 10.0 in June 2011. Currently, the FAST system supports Mail.XML 6.0D and 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. The PostalOne! system will stop supporting Mail.XML 7.0C and Mail.XML 8.0B versions on October 28, 2011, for the Full Service Data Distribution functionality. The Mail.XML technical guides are currently being updated and will be posted on RIBBS® in mid-April.

FAST®Guides Updates:To support FAST release 14.2.0 on May 23, 2010, the following guides are updated and available at RIBBS>Site Index A-Z>FAST/Surface Visibility>FAST Information>FAST Resources>User Guides under Important Links:

  • FAST Customer User Guide
  • FAST Customer Origin Entry User Guide

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.

Simplified Address Mail: An Easier Way for Small Businesses to Reach Local Customers (Report Number RARC-WP-11-004)

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

Postal Resources in the Internet

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

Inside Australia Post's IT Transformation

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.

 

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 CENTC331WG3 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)

PostInsight on "A Review of Price Elasticity Models for Postal Products" (Alan Robinson) ?Problem Loading Page? 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

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 Direct mail marketing bouncing back with economy

Postal Technology Magazine: Direct mail with mobile technologies is changing shopping habits

UPU Direct Mail Advisory Board

Borrell study predicts 39% drop in direct mail spend by 2013 ...

28 May 2009 ... Advertising revenue from direct mail is expected to plunge 39%, from $49.7 billion in annual ... according to a new forecast from Borrell Associates. ... The US Postal Service also experienced unprecedented declines in ...
  1. 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).

    USPS projecting a 48% drop in First-Class Mail over the 2010-2020 period. $14 billion in revenue will be lost. Excess capacity has got to be reduced. USPS 2011-2012 Network Optimization Initiative

    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.

    Second quarter $1.9 billion loss highlights urgent need of comprehensive legislation ... - USPS.com

    Obama Budget Calls for Postage Rate Hike, Other USPS Reforms ...

    Via 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 financial picture for Quarter 3, FY 2011 isn't pretty.
    • 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.
     

    Australia Post in fight for letterbox of the future

    Australia Post Digital MailBox 

    DIGITAL POST CHARGES 15C FOR DIGITAL STAMP

    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.

     

    5 August 2011: USPS posts $3.1 billion loss in Q3, warns of default

    Postal Service could default on government payments

     

    Postal Service may default on a $5.5 billion trust fund payment

    USPS Nearing Default; Seeks Help From Congress

     

    USPS to propose 5-day mail schedule, major cuts - Mar. 2, 2010

    2 Mar 2010 ... The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service announced Tuesday that it will incur about $238 billion in losses in the next 10 years if Congress ...
    money.cnn.com/2010/03/02/news/economy/usps/
  2. (Reuters) - The U.S. Postal Service would eliminate about 220,000 full-time jobs and shutter about 300 processing facilities by 2015 under a proposal to bring its finances in order

  3. U.S. Postal Service posts $3.8 billion loss - Nov. 16, 2009

    16 Nov 2009 ... The US Postal Service reported a $3.8 billion loss in the 2009 ... Ongoinglosses. This is the third year in a row that the agency has ...
    money.cnn.com/2009/11/16/news/.../US_postal_service/index.htm - 
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    USPS ends 2010 with US$8.5 billion loss US Postal Service cuts US$9 billion in costs

    US Postal Service begins 2011 with loss in first quarter

    With historic losses looming, USPS launches new ad campaign “If it fits, it ships” with two 30-second spots designed to remind customers that paper mail, unlike e-mail, can’t be hacked, and that letter carriers are still providing reliable and safe deliveries to doorsteps.

    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”.

    Deutsche Post DHL boosts profits in the second quarter of 2011


    • Australia Post profit falls 66pc

      AUSTRALIA Post's full-year net profit fell by 66 per cent on the back of rising costs and declining global mail volumes due to e-mail.

      www.theaustralian.com.au/business-old/industry-sectors/australia-post-profit-falls-66...
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      Australia Post - Australia Post achieves $103 million profit ...

      Australia Post achieves $103 million profit despite challenging conditions. Friday, 15 October 2010.Australia Post today announced that in the face of historic declines in ...

      auspost.com.au/about-us/australia-post-profit.html

     




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    6 May 2010 ... U. S. Postal Service Reports Continuing Losses. But Levels Of Service Remain Stable. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service will post a net ...
    www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2010/pr10_049.htm
  5. USPS News Release: U. S. Postal Service Reports Continuing Losses

     

    USPS News Release: Postal Service Ends Third Quarter with $2.4 ...

    5 Aug 2009 ... The Postal Service has incurred net losses in 11 of the last 12 fiscal quarters. The fiscal 2009 year-to-date net loss is $4.7 billion, ...
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  6. National Briefing - Washington - Losses Mount at Postal Service ...

    1 Oct 2010 ... The Postal Service expects to lose about $6 billion this year because of steep declines in mail volume.
    www.nytimes.com/2010/10/02/us/02brfs-Postal.html
  7. Postal Service 'facing losses of historic proportion' - USATODAY.com

    25 Mar 2009 ... The financially strapped US Postal Service will run out of money this year without help from Congress, Postmaster General John Potter warned ...
    www.usatoday.com/news/.../2009-03-25-postal-woes_N.htm - 
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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.

 

USPS Postal News: Mailers Show Success in Printing Intelligent ...

18 Mar 2010 ... It's this success in printing the Intelligent Mail barcode that has given thePostal Service the confidence to move ahead with previously ...
www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2010/pr10_028.htm

 

The United States Postal Service (USPS). Is it government agency ...

Despite this virtual monopoly worth some $45 billion a year, the law does not require that thePostal Service make a profit -- only break even. ...
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Don't Blame the Web for Postal Service Woes: Tech News «

5 Aug 2009 ... Until recently, the Postal Service was not allowed to make a profit – it was established as a self-sufficient “break-even” ...
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    14 Mar 2010 ... Mail volume is projected to fall 37 percent, to 150 billion pieces, by 2020.
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  4. Federal Eye - Postal Service Joins 'High Risk' List

    28 Jul 2009 ... The above chart demonstrates the rapid decline of American mail volume in the past three years (Image courtesy of GAO).
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    11 Nov 2009 ... Phillip Herr, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, discusses the need for restructuring the US Postal Service to achieve sustainable ...
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Postal Service Stats Put FedEx, UPS At Risk - Stocks To Watch ...

27 Aug 2008 ... ANALYSTS FRET PACKAGE DELIVERERS' FORTUNESThe number of parcels and packages that postal workers are toting around the country has declined ...
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Australia Post profit plunges 66% - 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..
 
  1. UPS Begins Offer Period in $6.5 Billion TNT Express Takeover ...

     
    www.bloomberg.com/.../ups-begins-offer-period-in-6-5-billion-tnt-e...
    21 Jun 2012 – United Parcel Service Inc.'s 5.16 billion-euro ($6.5 billion) cash offer forTNT Express NV begins tomorrow and runs through Aug. 31 as the U.S. ...
     

    UPS gets Aussie TNT in $6.5bn deal | The Australian

     
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    20 Mar 2012 – UPS closed out a €5.16 billion ($6.5bn) deal to acquire TNT Express to create a dominant package-shipping company in Europe, subject to ...

DHL sees opportunity in TNT-UPS merger - FT.com

 
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24 May 2012 – The €5.16bn takeover of TNT Express by UPS creates an opportunity for DHL, the European express parcel leader, to pick up disaffected ...

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

USPS - Strategic Transformation Plan 2006-2010  Canada Post - Annual Report Postal Transformation

USPS - Innovations@USPS

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

Postal Technology News: AMS release intelligent mailing applications

Postal Technology News: Pitney Bowes to launch Mailstream Wrapper at Hunkeler Innovation Days

Document Management, Direct Mail, Postage Scales - Pitney Powes Mail Trends 2008
BusinessWire: Pitney Bowes Management Services, Inc. (PBMS)today announced an integrated return mail management service offering that can update up to 60 to 80 percent of incorrect addresses (as compared to only 10 to 30 percent by competitive single source data providers), which can help companies significantly reduce the costs associated with return mail and reconnect with customers.
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
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Is There a Future for Mail?


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.

USPS - Envisioning America's Future Postal Service

The new action plan was presented at the “Envisioning America's Future Postal Service” conference on March 2, 2010. Take a look at presentations from the ...
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      2. Future of U.S. Postal Service - C-SPAN Video Library

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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.

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A Strategy for a Future Mail Processing & Transportation Network (Report Number RARC-WP-11-006). 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, A Strategy for a Future Mail Processing & Transportation Network, attempted to answer some of these questions and offers an approach that can be used to create a future mail processing and transportation network based on modeling techniques and stakeholder input. Our research and analysis showed a network of 135 major mail processing facilities, of which 15 are consolidation hubs, could lower net processing and transportation costs and meet or exceed most existing service performance. Ignoring transition costs, the new 135-plant network would cost the Postal Service around $2 billion less per year to operate than the existing network. Our analysis is not an operational blueprint but provides an outline of a modernized network that could meet future demand. We invite you to share your thoughts on this topic on our blog.

Schmid, Greg (May 2003). "Two Scenarios of Future Mail Volumes" (PDF). U.S. Department of the Treasury.
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PostInsight

POSTAL JOURNAL Dedicated to the Study of the American Postal System
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MailPro
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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
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  • Time for the Mail Monopoly to Go

Understanding the Private Express Statutes USPS Publication 542 (June 1998)

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    Zumbox to Power Digital Post Australia - Yahoo! Finance

     
    finance.yahoo.com/.../zumbox-power-digital-post-austra... - United States
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    About - Digital Post Australia

     
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    Digital Post Australia successfully defends injunction against use of its

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    https://digitalpost.com.au/
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    Who On Earth Needs A Digital Postbox? | Lifehacker Australia

     
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    15 Mar 2012 – Digital Post Australia is planning to introduce a “free online postal service which ... --zumbox-join-forces-launch-digital-post-australia ...
     

    Australians offered digital inbox for real mail | Delimiter

     
    delimiter.com.au/.../australians-offered-digital-inbox-for-real-mail/
    16 Mar 2012 – Australia's first digital postal service – Digital Post Australia – a joint venture between Computershare Limited,  and Zumbox, would be ...
     

    Australia Post Faces Competition from the “Digital Letterbox” - Media ...

     
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    21 Mar 2012 – Australia Post Faces Competition from the “Digital Letterbox” - Media ...by joining with US developer Zumbox to create Digital Post Australia ...
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Australia Post unveils 'post office of the future'

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

Mailing Systems Technology, Free Mailing Systems Technology

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Postal Technology International annual 2011 Showcase
POST-EXPO 2010
PostalVision2020 - Catching the Wave to the Postal Ecosystem of the Future

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)

DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY IN THE POSTAL SERVICE
(PDF)

RARC-WP-11-002 The Postal Service Role in the Digital Age, Part 1 ...

The Postal Service must establish a pivotal role for itself in this new emerging world to ensure its future relevance. 4 Postal Ecosystem is the term used for the markets ...

www.uspsoig.gov/foia_files/RARC-WP-11-002.pdf  · PDF file
 

Technology: The problem and solution for Postal Service's $238 ...

3 Mar 2010 ... Technology is behind the significant decline in the U.S. Postal Service's mail volume -- and losses -- but mobile applications could be ...
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Postal Service Researches 'Smarter' Mail - PCWorld
Postea: Technologies for the next century of Postal service

3 cities get paperless Zumbox postal service | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Manilla automatically retrieves, organizes and stores your bills and statements. No more filing or shredding. Competes with USPS 48 billion bills, statements, account notices, and offers that companies send to households every year.

Doxo Free Cloud Storage: Securely store your bills, statements and important documents in one place.

 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
USPS - Office of Strategic Planning Publications  Vision 2013, Plan for 2009 to 2013 Strategic
Transformation Plan 2006-2010 2004-2008 USPS Five-Year Strategic Plan. ...

www.usps.com/strategicplanning/publications.htm  [PDF] OE-MA-03-001 Postal Service Transformation Plan
U.S. Postal Service: Transformation Challenges Present Significant ... Warning: Postal Transformation May be Affecting Your Bottom Line
Postal Reform Proposals
Handbook Of Worldwide Postal Reform.

NALC: Postal Reform
USA HR22 - House Subcommittee on Postal Reform  ?Problem Loading Page?
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.
The Liberalized Swedish Postal Market
Liberalisation of European 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

 

Postal sector reform. Services transformation. • Technological Changes. ... “Postal activity to attend everyone”. • Tacit concept since the UPU creation ...
 

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
Multichannel post office solution from IBM and Escher Group
Multichannel messaging from IBM
Messaging Architects and PostX Announce Partnership to Provide the Industry's First eDirectory Enabled, Cross-Platform Encryption and Email Compliance Solution
USPS Intelligent Mail:  Confirm® Service  OneCode Vision™ Intelligent Mail Barcode Specification List of Intelligent Mail Barcode Resources OneCode Confirm™ Address Quality

 Dead Tree Edition has 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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    Emtex Software Ltd.

     
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    Electronic postal services coming directly out of the

     
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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. The U.S. Postal Service has posted its Intelligent Mail Guide on its RIBBS web site.
Postal Service Mail.dat Technical Specification, the Postal Service Mail.XML Technical Specification and the Guide to Intelligent Mail for Letters and Flats to
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
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USPS - Proof of Delivery
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M-Netics launches next generation proof of delivery solution

Electronic Proof Of Delivery - VSc Solutions – Supply Chain ...

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    Electronic Proof of Delivery | Proof of Delivery Systems

    Our Electronic Proof of Delivery System offers a solution to confirm the amount of goods delivered, the shipping address they were delivered, the time and it records …

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    Welcome to Royal Mail

    Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) is available through our Track & Trace system. When you send an item using Special Delivery™ Next Day. Special Delivery™ …

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    Telargo | Proof of Delivery

    Proof of delivery (POD) can be realized through: Electronic signature capture – Telargo Service can be easily integrated with a PDA or similar handheld device and …

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    Electronic Proof of Delivery

    BEC s electronic Proof of Delivery solution eliminates disputed deliveries, captures accurate, real time data and signature at the point of delivery, speeds up ...

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    Electronic Proof Of Delivery

    Electronic Proof Of Delivery. The paperless Electronic Proof of Delivery (ePOD) system has been developed in conjunction with leading vehicle manufacturers to …

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    Topeka Electronic Proof of Delivery, Kansas City MO Document ...

    Electronic proof of delivery & document automation software can easily integrate PO's, bills of lading, routing slips & delivery records. Contact American Micro to …

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    Cleardata UK - Electronic Signature, Proof of Delivery, Signature ...

    Proof of Delivery systems including electronic signature capture for a paperless field solution. Call 0800 046 8084.

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    goRoam.Delivery - Handheld Data Collection, Proof of Delivery and ...

    goRoam.Delivery is Proof of Delivery Software for bulk and packaged ... to simply view order and driver status, including electronic signatures from customers. The Delivery ...

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    ECi Solutions offers RouteTrak electronic proof of delivery systems

    RouteTrak electronic proof of delivery systems from ECi Solutions can significantly improve customer service while reducing operational costs, providing a complete …

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    Videos of electronic proof of delivery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, USPS - Insured Mail , or Registered Mail.
Return Receipt - Provides a postcard with the date of delivery and recipient's signature.

DidTheyReadIt


Postcards from imail for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad on the iTunes ...
 

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7 Jul 2011 – Learn more, read reviews, and download Postcards from imail by UKMail on the iTunes App Store.
  1. imail products - hybrid mail solution - print and post direct from your PC

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    imail is the UK's leading hybrid mail solution - print and post direct from your PC. ...Appointment Cards – A5, 250gsm postcards, with a full colour print on one ...

    imail Hybrid Mail (imail_UKM) on Twitter

MailitFaster hybrid mail

Click2Mail.com

Postal Technology International: has the time come for hybrid mail to come out of the shadows?

Syslore is a leading company in the area of high-performance fuzzy matching software. We deliver scalable and accurate solutions that significantly improve the processing of inexact structured data.

Mail sorting and receiver data management Data quality, database cleansing and harmonisation Error-tolerant fuzzy searching

USPS TIME-DEFINITE SURFACE NETWORK - DRAFT RFP


COALink (National Change of Address Linkage System)

SuiteLink™ CERTIFIED SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS

Postalsoft Mailing Software: Compare Solutions

 

Mobile Scanning Solutions Opticon

  USPS Online Postage Solutions

USPS® Expands Compliance to SuiteLink™ and DirectDPV | Mailing

NCOALink® and SuiteLink™ — What You Need to Know | Mailing

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.
'Intelligent stamp' launched by Royal Mail  Text Messages to replace stamps in Sweden
Print postage, get free supplies, and more at Stamps.com®. Also, see Zazzle.com Customized Postage.
Create and send mail online using NetPost Mailing Online service.

USPS - Click2Mail.com Make your mailing easy—customize a direct mail marketing campaign with Click2Mail™!
www.usps.com/mailingonline/welcome.htm

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.
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

The chairman of Mail2000 acquired by UPS 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 ...
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UPU 2004 Statistics on Global Hybrid Mail

The UPU publishes its world postal statistics for 2006

 

UPU Postal Statics Database

Hybrid Mail - More Than A Virtual Print Driver 17 September 2009 by Neil Cook - © Hellmail.co.uk

NetPosti now available on iPhones, Android phones and tablet devices

  • RHM (Reverse Hybrid Mail) - ABRAMO Holding S.p.A.

    THE CLIENT AND ITS NEEDS: Postel’s need to provide customers with a complete series of services, extending the business of hybrid mail to registered letters with receipt, allowed ...

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  • Postal automation :: Hybrid Mail

    Hybrid Mail (HMS) The Hybrid Mail System (HMS) provided by Elsag Datamat is the result of ... with the complete suite of applications for archiving, address cleaning, reverse hybrid ...

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Accalio - Why Amnis ? We keep one step ahead of the competition and deliver products uniquely and specifically tailored to Hybrid Mail, Reverse Hybrid Mail, Virtual Mail, Mail Switch ...www.accalio.com/Why-Amnis.222.0.html   · Cached page

  • Is No Saturday Delivery and Hybrid Mail the Solution to the USPS ...

    Hybrid mail services are outgoing electronic-to-print systems; Click2Mail is a commercial hybridmail solution. Click2Mail Workflow Process. Digital Mail Room Services. A “reverse ...

    blogs.whattheythink.com/going-green/2010/03/is-no-saturday-delivery-and-hybrid-mail-the... · 





 

 

Deutsche Post DHL goes hybrid An E-Postbrief will cost exactly the same as a traditional letter – 55 Euro cents. Users can choose whether their letter will be delivered electronically to another E-Postbrief account or printed by Deutsche Post and delivered by the mail carrier.

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 Sustainability Report.

mypostalmail - discontinued/scam? "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."
Are You For Real or a Scam, Earth Class Mail??? « Stop Junk Mail .

Deadtree Edition has reported that "Several industries and occupations related to printed materials will be among those with the worst job losses through 2018

Online Postal Mailbox. View Anywhere. Manage Anytime. | Virtual ...

Receive, view, and manage your postal mail and packages online. Get an USA address for as low as $5 / month.
www.virtualpostmail.com/ 
29 Oct 2008 ... As with the website at MyPostalMail.com, we could not find the name of an identifiable person on your website. ...
earthmailfree.wordpress.com/.../are-you-for-real-earth-class-mail/

GEMADEC Founded 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."

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
European Postal Glossary

 

UPU TERMPOST terminology database part of UPU Resources

QSG 001 Glossary of Postal Terms and Abbreviations

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

United States Postal Service: Definition and Much More

The Mail Marketing Glossary
Postal Acronyms & Abbreviations

Intelligent Mail Solutions: Glossary

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.

    Transportation Online Resources

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.commailstream 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

Hybrid Mail Providers

CFH Total Document Management Limited cfhdocmail.com Docmail hybrid mail. Online print, personalisation and post

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

Docapost of La Poste  Maileva SaaS

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

The Digital Mailroom BÖWE One solution

 

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.

 

Postea shaping the future by creating next generation solutions for the postal, courier and logistics industry.

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.compostaloneguides.htm."

 

DMM Advisory PostCom: The PostalOne!® 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 Postal Mail 

The Ultimate PO Box, Post Office Box and Mail Forwarding Service ...

Zumbox is the world's first and only paperless postal system. The company has created a web-based platform ... Copyright © 2009 Zumbox, Inc. Patent Pending ... The Wall Street Journal has reported that "Pitney Bowes Inc. (PBI) has filed a lawsuit accusing privately held Zumbox Inc. of patent infringement.

aCon Self Post Unit

Internet-Powered Postal Mail makes paper mail as easy and accessible as email! Use an Internet-Powered P.O. Box or a prestige address, then view images of ...

Guide to Intelligent Mail for Letters and Flats - v4
PostalOne! Technical Guide for Mail.XML
FuturePundit: US Postal Service Intelligent Mail Proposal
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. ...

SOLYSTIC’s virtual identification product V-IdTM uses the concept of a complete and distinct unique image of the envelope being sorted, thus, rendering obsolete printed bar codes on envelopes.

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

Treatment of Inbound Mail

PitneyBowes Inbound Mail Sorting

Swiss Post Box 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.

Based on Earth Class Mail Technology: The Ultimate PO Box, Post Office Box and Mail Forwarding Service ...

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

Parcel2Go acts as the voice of parcel delivery web-site for Parce2Go

SOLYSTIC - Mail processing system, Postal Services
Hytech International Postal Terminal
Fives Cinetic, Designing today the logistics solutions of the future.

VITRONIC machine vision

Schur Direct Mail Packaging

Zebra Identification, Tracking & Location Solutions

Vanderlande Industries automated material handling systems.  labour-saving goods handling in distribution centres and express parcel sortation facilities.

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.
 

Inbound Logistics: Third Party Logistics

Third-party logistics

Inbound Logistics: The Magazine for Demand-Driven Logistics

Inbound Logistics :: UPS Supply Chain Solutions

Interroll

SOLYSTIC - Mail processing system, Postal Services

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

[PDF] Postal Reform: An Investment in Jobs and the Economy 

 strategic plan, strive to improve our operational efficiency and effectiveness  .. Postal Regulatory Commission adjust to a new regulatory regime

USPS NetPost Mailing Online service. Also, see USPS - Click2Mail.com
 

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.

Postal Performance  NALC presentations on the Postal Service: The Postal Future and The Postal Crisis: Fact or Fiction?  The Future of Mail

TRITEK Mail Processing and Sorting Systems

Google Directory of Mail Handling and Sorting Equipment

Central Email

Brief information on universal postal service definition of UPU member
administrations

Regulation of the UK Postal Services sector including Universal Service Obligation .. Royal Mail loses postal monopoly

[PDF] ESTIMATES OF THE COST OF THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATION

[PDF] GAO-04-565T US Postal Service Key Reasons for Postal Reform

[PDF] Balancing Access and the Universal Service Obligation
[PDF]
ACCESS TO POSTAL MARKETS
Obligations and Rights of Postal Operators

[PDF] Postal Reform: An Investment in Jobs and the Economy

The future of mail: CEOs discuss how to head off postage hikes.
PDF]
GAO-05-261 US Postal Service: The Service's Strategy for Mail Processing Infrastructure

ePostbox Sweden Post

NetPosti Finland Post

Persian Wars - Battle of Marathon - 492 B.C. :  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.

Paper Boy story about hybrid postal messaging: NowDocs.com

Smartmail

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.

Moore Corporation Limited print fulfilment and direct marketing
Avery® Print and Mail Center (PMC)
Super Letter
Easy Post Australian developer of hybrid mail software
Vetscom International, Inc. hybrid mail for direct marketing and billing
Output Technologies Electronic Printing and Mailing, print-on-demand hybrid mail
Fulfillment Concepts, Inc.
Mail Boxes Etc®

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.

Whatever You Call It, Just Don’t Think of Last-Mile Logistics, Last 

Fulfilment & e.logisticse.logistics Magazine

Delivery - Part of the Package

KePol automatic parcel delivery system

 

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.

 

24 hour service: Swiss Post introduces automated parcel terminals

 
www.swisspost.ch/post.../post.../post.../post.../post...post.../post-...
Feb 20, 2013 – Swiss Post is extending its parcel services and introducing automated parcel terminals for the first time under the name My Post 24

 

Google search results 25 Feb 2013 on last mile unattended delivery - first page:

 

 

  1. The last mile of e-commerce – unattended delivery - Inderscience ...

     
    www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=16815
    Title: The last mile of e-commerce – unattended delivery from the consumers and eTailers' perspectives. Author: Mark Xu, Brett Ferrand, Martyn Roberts ...
     
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    Solving the last mile issue: reception box or delivery box?

    lrg.tkk.fi/logistics/publications/last_mile.pdf
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    by M Punakivi - 2001 - Cited by 56 - Related articles
    The two main approaches to unattended delivery are the reception box concept ...This is the ``last mile issue'' of e-commerce (Dagher, 1998; Guglielmo, 2000; ...
     
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    The last mile of e-commerce – unattended delivery - CORE

     
    core.kmi.open.ac.uk/display/4182158
    The last mile of e-commerce: unattended delivery from the consumers and eTailers' perspectives. ByMark Xu, B Ferrand and Martyn Roberts ...
     
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    The last mile of e-commerce - unattended delivery from ... - EconBiz

     
    www.econbiz.de/...last-mile...unattended-delivery.../10009063148/?...
    The last mile of e-commerce - unattended delivery from the consumers and eTailers' perspectives. Xu, Mark; Ferrand, Brett; Roberts, Martyn, 2008 · "Wie virtuell ...
     
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    Unattended Delivery for Online Shopping - Information Resources ...

    www.irma-international.org/viewtitle/32703/
    File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
    unattended delivery as a particularly favourable choice as widely reported in US and..... Cooke, J., (2004), Shippers are paying more for “last mile” deliveries, ...
     
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    Unattended Delivery Background - Fulfilment Guide

     
    www.fulfilmentguide.com/.../unattended_background.php?qx=FF
    working to streamline last-mile deliveries in association with ... Many unattended and deferred delivery options are available to retailers, carriers and consumers ...
     
  7. Integration of Information and Optimization Models for Routing in ... - Page 26 - Google Books Result

    books.google.com/books?isbn=1461436281
    Jan Fabian Ehmke - 2012 - Business & Economics
    Based on their empirical analysis, the following success factors for last-mile solutions... allow greater use of unattended delivery systems (e.g., for food deliveries). ...Last-mile delivery enables the success of online businesses, especially with ...
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    Challenges and Opportunities in Attended Home Delivery

    www2.isye.gatech.edu/~mwps/publications/modelCD26April07.pdf
    File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
    by N Agatz - Cited by 9 - Related articles
    Although a “last-mile” delivery ser- ... to bridge the last mile. In this chapter ..... [20] compare transportation costs for attended and unattended delivery and ...
     
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    Fulfilment & e.logistics | Autumn 2008 | Last-mile deliveries – are we ...

     
    www.elogmag.com/magazine/49/Last-mile_deliveries.shtml
    For possibly the first time ever at an express delivery event, last-mile .... 'The market-leading solution for unattended consumer deliveries in the UK is the garden ...
     
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    The Last Mile Problem - FlyLib -- free Books online

     
    flylib.com/books/en/2.405.1.80/1/
    Figure 9.2 provides a classification of the main forms of unattended delivery (McKinnon ... Many of the companies marketing innovative solutions to the last mile ...
     
 
 

 
DX Business Direct has built a superior infrastructure to facilitate secure, convenient parcel delivery and reverse logistics and give customers complete control over the last mile.

ByBox

ParcelXchange

Homeport. The unattended delivery solution provider
Parcel Pod
eBox 

The Last Mile to Nowhere: Flaws & Fallacies in Internet Home Delivery

Parcel shipping: USPS set to go the "first mile" - 5162008 ...

16 May 2008 ... We currently deliver products in the “last mile” for FedEx (FedEx Smart Post), UPS (UPS Basic), and DHL (DHL@home); ...

UPU Postal Business Case Concepts .. First & Last Mile

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.

Last Mile Logistics RedPack Logistics

Deliver "E" Sentinel® Secure Unattended Delivery

The last mile of e-commerce – unattended delivery

 

KePol parcel logistic solutions has been specially tailored to the demands of customer self-service.

Greatest Opportunity in More than Three Decades to Fix Ills of ...

The DMA believes that the Mailbox Rule strengthens the economies of the delivery function of the Postal Service, also known as "the last mile".

Going The Last Mile - Company Business and Marketing Industry ...

Its ultimate mission: to dominate the so-called "last mile" of e-commerce, ... Amazon.com and UPS, WalMart and the U.S. Postal Service, all rolled into one. ...

Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies Magazine

Home Delivery: Conquering the Long, Last Mile

Downstream Access, the Last Mile,. and the Future of the Postal Service. James I. Campbell Jr. EMA Foundation. Institute for Postal Studies Symposium

Turning the Postal System into a Generic Digital Communication ...

Turning the Postal System into a Generic Digital Communication Mechanism. ... and the cost of furnishing "last-mile" wiring can be prohibitively high

Whittier Mailing Products

International Mail Service, Inc. (IMS)
NowDocs.com and Mimeo.com   -- Internet based document printing
PrintingNews reports about FedEx Kinko's Direct Mail Services and Print Online

Blurb is a company that provides a print-on-demand layout, printing and self-publishing service for the general public

International Data Post AS --> Ergo - wholly owned by Norway Post. As of 15 November 2001 Norwegian ErgoGroup has acquired International Data Post AS

ErgoGroup

Postal Links

USPS - Postal Facts

US Addressing Software: Mailer's Software, Group 1 Software and BMW Plus

Non Profit Mailers Associations

  • Association for Postal Commerce (PostCom), Arlington, VA -
  • Articles of PostCom
  • Alliance for Justice, Washington, DC
  • Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers, Washington, DC
  • American Society of Association Executives, Washington, DC
  • Association of Priority Mail Users, Arlington, VA
  • Council on Foundations
  • Direct Marketing Association, New York and Washington, DC
  • IDEAlliance, Alexandria, VA
  • Independent Sector, Washington, DC
  • Mail Advertising Service Association, Alexandria, VA
  • Magazine Publishers of America, New York and Washington, DC
  • National Newspaper Association, Reston, VA
  • Newspaper Association of America, Virginia
  • Parcel Shippers Association, Washington, DC

Publications, Postal News and Updates

  • Chronicle of Philanthropy

  • DM News

  • Federal Times

  • Mailers Council

  • Mailingstuff.com

  • Postal Bulletin with searchable database

  • Postal Employee Network

  • PostalReporter.com

  • Presort.com

  • Postalmag.com

  • PostInsight

  • Target Marketing Magazine

  • Union Postale eMag

Postal Resources in the Internet

Experian | Minimizing Postal Rates | Postal Optimization
Let’s Go Postal!

UKPostBox.com What is reverse Hybrid mail: 
Being able to receive and manage your letters via the internet (cloud postal service).

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.

  1. Commercial and Regulatory Aspects of Reverse Hybrid Mail

     
    ideas.repec.org/p/chc/wpaper/0030.html
    by C Jaag - 2011 - Related articles
    The introduction of reverse hybrid mail is able to significantly reduce the cost of postal operations while at the same time fitting customers' needs better than ...
     
  2. Opportunities In (Reverse) Hybrid Mail

     
    www.slideshare.net/.../opportunities-in-reverse-hybrid-... - United States
    12 Oct 2010 – latest update from Post-Expo 2010, how to act in a changing postal market to generate new business.
     
  3. RHM (Reverse Hybrid Mail) - ABRAMO Holding S.p.A.

     
    www.abramo.com › ... › Abramo GROUP › Case Histories
    Postel's need to provide customers with a complete series of services, extending the business of hybrid mail to registered letters with receipt, allowed ABRAMO ...
     
  4. Reverse Hybrid Mail | LinkedIn

     
    www.linkedin.com/groups/Reverse-Hybrid-Mail-4050422
    Reverse hybrid mail providers and user group. Discussion group on the benifits ofreverse hybrid mail and technology uses.
     
  5. Is No Saturday Delivery and Hybrid Mail the Solution to the USPS ...

     
    blogs.whattheythink.com/.../is-no-saturday-delivery-and-hybrid-mail...
    2 Mar 2010 – A “reverse hybrid mail” system, digital mail room services, accepts printed mail and converts it into electronic mail. There are systems designed ...
     
  6. Commercial and Regulatory Aspects of Reverse Hybrid Mail

     
    poliecon.com/.../commercial-and-regulatory-aspects-of-reverse-hybri...
    31 Aug 2011 – Driven by market opening and increased competition from electronic communication, postal operators have started extending their scope of ...
     
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    Reverse Hybrid Mail

    www.siline.it/.../Sistemi%20Reverse%20Hybrid%2... - Translate this page
    File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
    RHM – Reverse Hybrid Mail Gestione Elettronica D. SOLUZIONI E SERVIZI DI REVERSE HYBRID. Le soluzioni ed i servizi di REVERSE HYBRID M veloce e ...
     
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    Electronic Postal Services – A scary story or the only way to survive?

    www.cept.org/files/1049/.../EPS%20CERP%2021052011.pdf
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    Electronic input. Electronic delivery. Posts'. Origin. S e n d e r. Receiver. Why should the posts do it? Telco's. &. Portals. Hybrid Mail. Reverse hybrid Mail ...
     
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    Investigating Innovation - International Post Corporation

    www.ipc.be/~/media/Documents/PUBLIC/.../2010_SP/SP_12.ashx
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    30 Mar 2010 – Document management (archiving). ”Reverse” hybrid mail services are offered by some posts, where physical mail is scanned for electronic ...

Australia Post Digital Mail Box accessible anytime, anywhere allows you to Receive to securely receive important mai, Easy payment of your bills Private and secure storage for your important documents

Australia Post’s Hybrid Mail Volume Solution: eLetter Solutions, EDI Post  and   Easy Mail TM  Australia Post Target Digital Economy
Add Mail2Day® to your post office box
AddressPost by Australia Post  postal address database management

AddressVision: A Groupe Bull Company

Australia Major Mail Users Association

Mailroom, Imaging and Data capture by Australia Post, provides a range of tailored mailroom, e-mailroom and imaging solutions

ID Mail Systems Inc. Mailroom Automation

IBM - Multichannel messaging solution

zairmail on-demand direct mail - hybrid mail

PrintSoft PReS® ePost enables PC to ePost data stream conversion. printsoft.comproducts-servicesdeskdirect-global.html Hybrid Direct Business Mail News - DeskDirect Global 
printsoft.com - Hybrid Mail case studies .. 38 billion documents a year that could be sent via desktop hybrid mail. ...

HYBRID MAIL SYSTEM (HMS) 
iMailTracking - Certified Mail Made Easy! 

QUALITY OF POSTAL SERVICES Advanced Electronic Services Hybrid

Hybrid Mail Solutions

USPS - POSTAL SERVICE ANNOUNCES CERTIFIED MAIL ONLINE

Lindholm_RFID and post - Sweden post

Viapost - The Future Of Post - POIP Hybrid Mail

Cover Pages: Hybrid Mail Language (HML)

Hybrid Mail Solutions www.envelopments.com.au      Document wrapping machine Easymailer by Envelopments

IDEAlliance Establishing an end-to-end digital supply chain.

Mail.dat  Mail.XML™

RIBBS: The Intelligent Mail® Barcode (formerly known as the 4-State Customer Barcode) is the next generation of USPS® barcode technology used to sort and track letters and flats.

Print on Demand.com
OutputLinks

RelayOne: most of the references to this 1998 JV between Royal Mail and Microsoft Network have been removed.

Viapost - The Future Of Post - POIP Hybrid Mail

www.royalmail.comsmartstamp

USPS Online Postage

World Post Services .com, online global postal service, delivers world post services, online global postal service, delivers email to the post office, world wide, UK, emails converted, first class postal mail

E-Mail Killed the Post Office Star

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

George Bernard Shaw

ELetter is now part of Zairmail.com
Eletter Receives Capital, Announces New Online Mailing Service ... primarily from Trident Capital, for its new online mailing services. ... over $6 billion a year on postage alone, according to the US Postal Service, ...
DirectMailQuotes.com
infoUSA.com direct mail lists
Yahoo! Directory Direct Marketing > Direct Mail
Direct Marketing - Database Marketing - Direct Mail
A Direct Mail Glossary
direct mail roi calculator, marketing roi, e-mail campaign roi
USPS: Glossary of Postal Terms Abbreviations and Acronyms
PostCom: Glossary of Mail Marketing Terms

eCopy:hardcopy scanned and sent by email https:ecopy.com

PostNet:  franchised postal and business services industry

Nexacom - nexacom.com.au  - We offer a service for customers to send mail to recipients who don't have email or where a real letter is required.

Gujarat Patra - https:bharuchonline.tripod.com  - Email to Post, Service within India, 24 delivery

Chandigarhcity - It will change your E-mail into post and deliver it for free to anywhere in Chandigarhcity in India.

Nexacom - Offers a service for customers to send mail to recipients who don't have email or where a letter is required.

e-tgm - The Electronic Telegram

Anonymous Mail Service
DestructingMessage
STP Optimizes Its Logistics Flow with Real-Time RFID Tracking System
RFID Solutions Online
IDTechEx: RFID for Postal and Courier Services

PictureVision,Inc. in partnership with AmazingMail.com, the service that enables users to create real postcards on the Internet that are mailed by the U.S. Postal Service, will allow Kodak PhotoNet users to create and mail postcards.
Print On Demand Initiative (PODi): www.podi.org
Advertising Mail Marketing Association renamed Association for Postal Commerce, or more simply, PostCom from 1 January 2000.
Mail Advertising Service Association
The Direct Marketing Association
American Marketing Association - www.marketingpower.com
Australian Direct Marketing Association (ADMA)
National Association of Major Mail Users, Inc. (Canada)
Open Directory - Business: Mailhouses, Publishing and Printing
Google Directory - Business > Publishing and Printing

u.s. postal service resources on BNET

Using the Balanced Scorecard: Lessons Learned from the U.S. Postal

Integrated Direct Marketing and Hybrid Direct Marketing

U.S. Laws on Direct Mail

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.]

PostCom How to Deal with "Do Not Mail" Mania
EMIP Facts Pack - executive summary
 

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.

Letter Carriers Union Opposes 'Do Not Mail' Bill as Harmful to ... Postal Service & its employees ..

US Postal Junk Mail - A Service to Stop Junk Mail At Home  USPS defends junk mail (2008-02-27).

DMAchoice is a mail preference service

Direct Marketing Association: Telephone, Mail & Internet Marketing

DMA, Return Path Launch Email Reputation Registry. 12162008

postalnews blog » DMA     DMA Advice for Protecting the Environment & Your Bottom Line

communications to receiving direct mail. Subscribe to DMA’s Mail Preference Service (MPS). MPS is a file of consumers
Free Service Supported by the USPS”. Another reads “Stop Paper Junk Mail” Reduce Mailbox Clutter- Sign Up for DMA’s Mail Preference Service!” .

"How to Junk Junk Mail and Other Paper Clutter", 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.

DirectMail.com's Mail Preference Registry - Get rid of junk mail

Sustainable Life won "How to stem the tide of unwanted postal intrusions."

Junk Mail "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.

 

The Slow Death of the U.S. Postal Service

DirectMail.com's Mail Preference Registry - Get rid of junk mail

SPAM & Postal Junk mail

Spam Links - physical spam
Spam Links, the anti-spam portal; everything you didn't want to have to know about spam. ... Physical Spam. Postal Spam; Street Spam; Postal Spam. About Junk Mail; Junk Mail Do Not ContactPreference ...
spamlinks.netother-physical.htm - More from this site - Similar pages

Spanish prisoner's scam .. postal junk, spam & scam started in 1911 long before email abuse. The True Cost of Spam

Spam Classification Using Adaptive Boosting Algorithm

“Major Techniques for Classifying Spam”


When will e-mail be as reliable as postal mail? - Network World
spam: Definition and Much More from Answers.com The costs of spam paid by the recipient's mail site, unlike junk postal mail, commonly approach or exceed the sender's costs, in terms of bandwidth, www.answers.comtopicspam  - More from this site - Similar pages

Pitney Bowes PostInsight News

Latest Papers: "The Emergence of Electronic Alternatives" & "The Internet and Mail

Google Postal News
Postalnews.com
Postcom
USPS Newsroom


USPS - Postal Links: Postal Customer Council |  Postal Inspectors |  Postal Explorer |  Postal Bulletin |  Postal History |  Office of Inspector General

Postal Services History from the Eqyptians 2000 BC onwards .. The first postal service (China, in 900BC) 
China's postal services can be traced back to 400 B.C., when post houses were set up nationwide by imperial governments to deliver letters and documents, mostly for military and diplomatic purposes.

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.

The National Postal Museum, a Smithsonian Institution museum

Postal Inspection Service .. Links
minimailers
MailScan: Receive Postal Mail via EMAIL

Postal Addressing Standards- USPS
Postal Addressing Standards – Universal Postal Union UPU
Postal History Organisation

Postal Services History
History of the United States Postal Service 1775-1993
postcom.org news about postal services by Association for Postal Commerce PostCom
ePostalNews

Links to Postal Providers

PostOffice.com

Online Postal Magazine

iPrint.com, The Internet iPrint Shop.

PaperSpecs

Internet Printing Protocol

Print On Demand Initiative (PODi)

An Incomplete Guide To Print On Demand Publishers

Print on Demand.com

amas.com.au  Address Matching Approval System: Australia Post  AddressPost Database Management

qas.comaustralia Quick Address Software

EasyLink Services - Production Messaging delivery modes include e-mail, fax, telex, and postal delivery ... Multicast Messaging
SOLYSTIC - Mail processing system, Postal Services

Estamp = Stamp.com the Internet Postage Company
Digital Franking pitneybowes.com or pb.com PB NetDirect web-enabled postal service
e-TimeStamp - a web based security service for data authentication

Royal Mail becomes world’s first postal company to offer digital watermarking

docSense.com extends Pitney Bowes to Electronic Bill Presentation and Payment

Postal news sponsored by Pitney Bowes

Intelligent Mail

www.postalproject.com

PC-Based provide Postage Solutions based on Escher's RiposteDispatch(TM)

Bundesverband Deutscher Postdienstverleister e.V.
Global Mail - DHL - Deutsche Post

Pitney Bowes Business Insight offers DAT-MAIL™ MSP to Mailers who want to participate in Intelligent Mail™ Full Service

neopost.com - Neopost Express Design your direct mail piece, email it to us and we'll print, collate, address, stamp and mail to your database for you.

Virtual Post Office stamps.com formerly StampMarker Inc.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Venture Capital Notebook ... Stamps.com, which provides online postage and shipping services to businesses

USPS Stamps Online https:www.stampsonline.com:443orderingindex.htm
INFORMATION BASED INDICIA PROGRAM (IBIP)

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

Posta posta.com 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 

Canada Post Electronic Post Office epost

PaperlessPOBox  converts postal mail to electronic mail

Proven Direct  Online Marketing, Imaging, Direct Mail and Fulfillment

sprintbiz.comproducts  SprintMail Post and AT&T Mail both have an interface to postal messaging via print fulfilment

Geopost International Mail Consulting … international mail and order fulfilment services.

21 Grams Sweden - Postal Optimisation Consultancy
Jet Mail Direct MailFulfilment

FEDEX PowerShip, a multi-carrier electronic shipping system

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.

IPC - International Post Corporation - UNEX Quality of Service

AccuSHIP.com 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.

Postal and Shipping Services in the Yahoo! Directory ; AllBusiness - Business Directory

FedEx, UPS tap Postal Service's core competency

Deutsche Post: Domineering to Dominant ; Deutsche Post World Net - Investors | Corporate Facts | STAR Value

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.

An Introduction to Digitization Technologies and Issues
TopImageSystems
eFLOW for Postal Services
SRI Technology At Core of New US Postal Service Letter Sorting
Fairchild Imaging - Charge Coupled Devices - Lockheed Martin ...  Lockheed Martin Selects Fairchild Imaging To Provide CCD And Electronics
For United States Postal Service Advanced Camera System.
LOCKHEED MARTIN ANNOUNCES ACQUISITION OF POSTAL SERVICE COMPANIES
Standard Register to Sell Equipment Service Business to Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes to Acquire Bell & Howell's International Mail
Pitney Bowes Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire FirstLogic
Deutsche Post World Net - Investors | Exel acquisition completed
Siemens and Vodafone will be required to divest Vodafone's Mannesmann Dematic Postal Automation business ("MDPA business") to Northrop Grumman Corp. ("Northrop")
Argosy Post
commercial mail sorting application.
Lockheed Martin Distribution Technologies designs, produces and integrates mail automation, material handling, recognition and information processing systems for postal services, package delivery operations and corporate mail centres as well as distribution, fulfilment and manufacturing centres worldwide.
MailCode – a Pitney Bowes company - is a MLOCR sorting systems manufacturer for commercial and postal mixed mail processing solutions.
National Presort Inc.

www.npisorters.com
Vitronic Parcel Sortation ?Bad Link?

GD Convey Integrated Sorting Systems

ID Mail Systems, Inc. Manufactures equipment to sort mail in the corporate and university mail room environments.

Transform Magazine: feature: Toward the Digital Mailroom ...
Captiva Digital Mailroom ... Management Download.com - Digital Mailroom
OPEX
has been in mailroom automation since 1973, when they introduced their first mail extraction system.
Mail Opener
Letter and Envelope Opener - Incoming Mail and Letter Openers
Letter Opener  Envelope Opener - ABC Office
 Neopost: Digitally enhancing your mailroom
MailCode - a PitneyBowes company -
Document Messaging Technology
Outsourced Services Group OSG ImageTrac® Scanning Platform
Twofold Ltd - Letter Extractor
Parascript is a provider of automated data capture software for postal automation - awarded contract for OCR at USPS facilities to automate the processing of parcels and bundled mail for the US Postal Service (USPS) under its Automated Parcel Bundle Sorter (APBS) Optical Character Recognition (OCR) program.
ParcelVision

Where the calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes, and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons – Popular Mechanics, March 1949.

[PDF]DISTRIBUTION TECHNOLOGY IN THE POSTAL SERVICE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Postal Explorer - Templates & Standards by USPS:

  Domestic Mail
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
    
 
International Mail
 
 
 
 
 
  Additional Links
Download DMM
DMM Archive
Tutorials
Additional Publications
 
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

USPS Address Quality
Mailboxes.com
Postal Products Unlimited, Inc.
USMailSupply.com
Google Directory ... Mailboxes
Postal service (Laws, regulations and rules) Business Articles
Delivery Operations Information System (US Postal Service)

Consignia leads trials into new delivery solutions for home shoppers

Deliver "E" Sentinel® Secure Unattended Delivery

POD - The unattended delivery solution

Fulfilment & e.logisticse.logistics Magazine

DR-AR-07-010 - Deployment Strategy of Automated Postal Centers

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.

Postal Intralogistics

Hybrid Mail Language (HML)  The Hybrid Mail Language (HML) was developed by CENTC 331. Technical Committee 331: Postal Services, WG 2.
Cover Pages: Hybrid Mail Language (HML)
Print on Demand: GMC to Spotlight Hybrid Mail Solution at Post

GMC Inspire Hybrid Mail Solution

  1. Hybrid Mail Language (HML)

    From the CENTC 331 Newsletter #6: "The definition of a common language for the data input and data interchange for a hybrid mail system has been proposed ...
    xml.coverpages.orghml.html - 20k -
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  2. printsoft.com - solutions : Hybrid Mail Solutions

    Hybrid Mail is the electronic lodgement of mail from the mail generator’s computer ... Demonstrations:. XML demonstration · Post Expo 2002 Hybrid Mail demo ...
    www.printsoft.com.ausolutionshybridmail.htm - 38k -
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  3. i-docs™ Enterprise Software for Customer Communications ...

    Hybrid Mail is the initiative by Postal Services Providers to exploit ... The mapping of the input documents into XML schemas as well as the design of the ...
    www.i-docs.comindex.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=115&Itemid=72 - 35k -
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Australia Post Partners to Bring Hybrid Mail to US
 

SearchSupplyChainLogistics.net ?Bad Link?


USPS - POSTAL SERVICE ANNOUNCES CERTIFIED MAIL ONLINE
IT'S TIME TO END THE MAILING ONLINE MADNESS
Hybrid Mail Who needs it?
PrintSoft Case Studies - Hybrid Mail
PostEurop: Legal regime applicable to hybrid mail
SuperLetter.Com Inc.
Criticalpath: Solutions for Postal E-Services

The Postal Market in the Age of Globalization

Jayde.com - Mail Handling And Sorting Directory

NPI Sporters

FKILogistex Sorters
Mail Handling and Sorting : Business Seek Company Directory

Who's Who in ebilling

eLogistics - powering new ways to manage freight

e.logistics Magazine

Endicia Internet Postage
Stamps.com: Print Internet Postage, NetStamps and Shipping Labels ...
ClickStamp® Internet Postage

Print Internet Postage From Your PC
E-Stamp Corporation
E-Stamp Corporation Sells Internet Postage Intellectual Property ...  to ...  Stamps.com
My Mail Stamp™
  email stamps - email humour that could become the break-through to fighting spam.

ZIP Codes and postal code data providers, freebies, and resources

Postal Mail Forwarding Directory

Hoover's: United States Postal Service Company Research
GSA - US Postal Service (USPS) Resources
GSA - United States Postal Service - Mail Manager's Resource Guide
USPS Workplace Surveys

United States Postal Inspection Service
Federal Bureau of Investigation's Internet Crime Complaint Center or the FTC. Also complain to your local Better Business Bureau.

NetGram E-mail to Postal Mail: Since 1995, NetGram's E-mail Bridge® has been turning e-mail into paper mail. US Patent 5,805,810

www.freepostit.com email 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.

National Postal Forum
Print on Demand: 'Knowledge Is Power' at National Postal Forum
[PDF]
Intelligent Mail is Better than Magic at National Postal Forum

Mailing Industry Links

Listing of links to online resources for the mailing industry. ... Document · Mailing System

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the postal service Results for the postal service ... forms processing, data collection and document capture software with OCR, IMR, Barcode and eforms. ...
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ePostal News ... Hybrid Mail • e-Logistics • Internet Postage • e-Forms • Procurement Portals ... The digital envelope

ICANN | .post New sTLD RFP Application

 

Nine things that will disappear during our lifetime - CKA Forums --> No 1 in the list is the Post Office ..

Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come 1. The ...


nine-things-that-will-disappear-during-our-lifetime ... All we will have that can't be changed are Memories.

 

freepatentsonline.com

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 ..

 

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6,532,452

System and method for employing digital postage marks as part of value-added services in a mailing system

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6,463,354

System and method for automatic notification of upcoming delivery of mail item

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5,953,427

Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system

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5,918,220

Method and system for worldwide media selection, production, and delivery

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5,873,073

Method and system for mail piece production utilizing a data center and inter-related communication networks

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5,802,503

Channel switched mail message switching and metering system

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5,781,634

Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system

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5,742,932

Method and system of accounting for transaction costs and currency exchange in a hybrid mail system

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5,682,429

Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system , 5,454,038 and 5,953,427

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5,586,036

Postage payment system with security for sensitive mailer data and enhanced carrier data functionality

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5,454,038

Electronic data interchange postage evidencing system

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5,612,889

Mail processing system with unique mailpiece authorization assigned in advance of mailpieces entering carrier service mail processing stream

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5,805,810

Apparatus and methods for converting an electronic mail to a postal mail at the receiving station ;
Early Hybrid Mail Ventures: E-Snail and NetGram Also known as Snailgram.

14 6,697,843 Method and system for hybrid mail with distributed processing
15 6,674,038 Information based network process for mail sortingdistribution
16 6,463,354 System and method for automatic notification of upcoming delivery of mail item
17 6,527,178 Method for authenticating mailpieces
18 6,527,170 Electromagnetic postal indicia and method of applying same
19 6,508,365 Method of removing mail from a mailstream using an incoming mail sorting apparatus
20 6,343,327 System and method for electronic and physical mass mailing
21 6,697,843 Method and system for hybrid mail with distributed processing
22 6,807,459 System and method for production and distribution of mail pieces for mass mailings
23 20060143033 providing mailpiece notification to a mailpiece recipient prior to delivery
24 20060276916 methods for electronically correcting uncoded addresses
25 20060271236 A mail system including a tracking and reporting system
26 7,240,199 System and method for verifying delivery and integrity of electronic messages
27 6344796 Unattended package delivery cross-docking apparatus and method ... US Patent 

NB.  There are several thousand patents for postal services grouped into specialist areas e.g. sorting, franking, indicia etc.

 

 

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there. - Josh Billings

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Messaging Forums and Free Information

Free advice is worth the price.

Robert Half

 

The History of Electronic Mail

History of E-Mail - 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.

Wikipedia History of Messaging:

  • Airmail
  • Electronic mail
  • Express mail
  • Homing pigeons
  • Instant messaging
  • Radio
  • Semaphore
  • Smoke signals
  • Steamshipping
  • Telegraphy
  • Telephony
  • Television
  • Text messaging
  • Wind-powered shipping

 

25 April 2006: 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.

BBN (Bolt, Beranek, and Newman) built the original Internet, invented the e-mail protocol and "@" symbol, and in 1971, sent the world's first e-mail message.

 

Glossary of Messaging and Network Security Terms

Howstuffworks "How E-mail Works"

 

DNS Tools
APNIC
AS
DIG DNS
digDNS/DNScomp
DNS-Digger
DNSdoctor - DNSdoctor
How Is My DNS?
IP
Traceroute
BGP IPv4/IPv6 Looking Glass Servers - BGP Route Servers (BGP, Border Gateway Protocol / Advanced Internet Routing)

Free White Papers and Reports on Messaging Software and Middleware

Definitions of Messaging on the Web:

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.

emailreplies.com  email etiquette and useful resources

 

IT specific encyclopaedia whatis.com

Internet Mail Consortium imc.org
Major document on comparing SMIME and PGPMIME: imc.orgsmime-pgpmime.html
https:idm.internet.comfeaturesstromimsg3_2toc.shtml is a good introduction to basic messaging standards
IMC members imc.orgmember-list.html#Access
imc.orgfeatures-chart.html messaging features supported by IMC members

The Internet Engineering Task Force 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 821 1 August 1982  and MIME RFC 1341 June 1992. 

Wireless Messaging Association

North American Mobile Messaging Forum - What does NAMMF stand for
 

Financial Services Instant Messaging Association (FIMA)

Association of Messaging And Directory Service Consultants (AMADSC)

RosettaNet, 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).

brint.cominterest.html knowledge capital From messaging system to knowledge management

Directory Interoperability Forum

Ferris Research The 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%.

EmailUniverse.com for email list owners

IBM LOTUS ADVISOR -- The Advisor Guide to IBM Lotus Notes


SIP Forum for VoIP telephony
using email address style SIP URLs
SIP Center for Session Initiation Protocol RFC2543 email survey of 1.3 million installed mail server product distribution 

ebXML - Enabling A Global Electronic Market - News  ... UNCEFACT and OASIS announced efforts are now underway to integrate SOAP 1.1 and SOAP with Attachments specifications into the ebXML Messaging Specification

 

OpenGROUP: The Future of Messaging   

 

The Message Newsletter of the Messaging Forum supersedes the Messaging Magazine

emailaddresses.com 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

Addresses.com email address directory

Phonebook of the World.com

Internet Email to Fax Fax to Email

faxZERO free online faxing

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Internet Email to Fax
www.UTbox.net      Proven technology, Quick signup. Easy to use. Free trial. Signup now
NSC- IP Telephony Experts
www.nsc.net.au      National Integrator of Converged Communications for Business
Fax to Email - Free Trial
www.FaxMate.com.au      Business Grade Fax to Email service - Save your fax line rental costs

Xmsg.com

XMSG Unified Messaging Solutions providesemail,voice mail,faxing and paging.Get email by phone,message notification by pager,consolidate your e-mail ...

Free Text Messages Send free sms

MessageX: FREE Wireless Messaging Gateway
Internet 101: Beginner's Handbook of Tutorials

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.

Dovecot (software) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dovecot_(software)
Dovecot is an open-source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind. Timo Sirainen originated Dovecot and first ...

Trusted Email Open Standard - Wikipedia, the free ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Email_Open_Standard
The Trusted Email Open Standard (TEOS) is an anti-spam technique proposed by the ePrivacy Group in 2003 at the Federal Trade Commission Anti-Spam ...


 

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein

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Unified Messaging Providers

@Phone Presentation

@Phone Plan

 

The Radicati Group, Inc. 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?

James Thurber

GSMBOX - Unified messaging revenue to reach $6.3B in 2002 compared to $10m in 1998

Open Directory - Computers:Data Communications:Unified Messaging

Unified Messaging Resources

Unified Messaging Information at Business.com
Unified Communications: Strategic Direction

Unified Conferencing and Collaboration Market (World)

Analyst Predicts Short-Term Chaos In Unified Communications Market

Developer Market News Research Library: Unified Messaging Communications) | Internet Multicasting | IP Videoconferencing Services | IP Videoconferencing Software | Unified Messaging, by KnowledgeStorm, Inc.

Open Directory - Computers: Data Communications: Unified Messaging

Unified Messaging Evaluation Suite

Secure Messaging Buyer's Guide

GSM World

emailman.com

WAP enabled Internet services Intervoice.com
Raindance.com - formerly evoke.com Evoke Talking Email and Beep by VStream provides voicemail recorded over the phone and deposited in their email box.
3Com’s CommWorks networking architecture.
 
Xpedite Integrating fax, voice, email and wireless communications

Skype is free Internet telephony
email to phone service eMail2Phone.net  
VoIP Now
wapforum.org
Wireless Application Protocol Forum
Communication system having unified messaging - Patent 4837798

Association of TeleServices International - ATSI

CTIA wireless telecommunications industry association
IntelePeer

Microsoft Office Communications Server - Wikipedia

strategy.com Personal Intelligence Network(tm) for e-mail, Excel, pager, fax, mobile phone, telephone, and personal digital assistants (PDAs).

ureach.com free 800 number and all-in-1 communications.

onebox.comfree integrated voicemail, fax and email service in partnership with MCI and ZDNET.

Hotvoice.com Email, incoming efax and voice email.

rim.net Inter@ctive Pager secure integrated wireless pocket email.

emoze.com push email for mobiles

SenderOK email management and online exchange of business cards

Handspring Treo is a multi-function phone, PDA, email and web device similar to Blackberry.

www.blackberry.net Blackberry is a multi-function phone, PDA, email and web device similar to Handspring's Treo.

Funambol Open Source Mobile Email

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

NotifyTechnology Enterprise Mobility Solutions now supports iPhone

Emoze Push Email for Mobile Devices

www.goamerica.com GoAmerica.com is a Mobile Office.

Rockliffe e-mail access via WAP phones

LogicaCMG WAP-Broker and SMS-C wireless messaging. Also, known as Logica Aldiscon. 

F-Secure announced F-Secure Anti-Virus for WAP Gateways, virus-protection software for the Wireless Application Protocol

Dialogue Communications (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.

The Ericsson and Microsoft Mobile Joint Venture is now part of Ericsson.

AVTC by Captaris computer telephony (CTI), RightFax, Advanced & Unified Messaging

Telstra.com communication tools

Orchestrate and Voicecom

linxcom.com

MessageASAP by OfficeDomain

amteva.com acquired by Cisco Systems

linxcom.com

jfax.com 

Extreme Fax

DataOnCall UniFAX

InnoPort

efax.com

MyFax

The History of the Fax Machine - Alexander Bain was granted a patent for his creation back in 1843.
Hughes, David Edward invented Telex back in 1855

Mediagate supplier of iPost Universal Messaging, a carrier-class universal messaging solution

redrock.com.au Redrock Communications MessageNet

comverse.com Comverse Network Systems - a supplier of enhanced services for Telcos

commtouch.com web-based email to integrate voicemail, fax, pager and telephone services.

activevoice.com

Captari's appliedvoice.com

itouch.com.au enhanced SMS messaging, alerts and m-commerce

724.com WAPI messaging, alerts and m-commerce

fax4free.comhome.asp fax from anywhere in the world for free to and within Australia, Canada and USA

OfficeMax.com MaxMailbox(tm) provides integration of voicemail, email, faxes and paging.

pagoo.com Message Mate to organize voice messages just like email

pocketmail.com

MailSite is a mail server, calendar server and contact server that works with Outlook 2007, iPhone, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones

SS8 Networks formerly centigram.com

unitedmessaging.com

webex.com for private, multi-user meetings, instant messaging and notification, guaranteed document delivery etc.

Raindance.com formerly listed as vstream.com send a voice message over email

Email SMS Services Blackberry Mobile Email

Communism is like one big phone company.

Lenny Bruce

eCAL Internet calendaring integrated with email, web & PDAs

raindance.com conferencing
Connexion by Boeing inflight Internet including messaging is in the process of being shut-down andor divested
DeltaBeta in-flight entertainment systems with Internet and messaging services

OnAir.com
Aircell
AeroMobile


SMS, MMS and Messaging News

Intel® Carrier Grade Server TIGW1U

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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 Vendors

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.

Open Directory Project: Computers: Mobile Computing: Wireless Data: Short Messaging Service

Wireless Glossary and SMSglossary.com - a comprehensive guide to text messaging

nowMessenger! Interesting Links - Wireless text messaging

Amethon MessageCore
New "push-to-talk" services that turn mobile phones into walkie-talkies with unlimited range could soon make text messaging obsolete,
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.

Wireless messaging development resources
wireless.itworld.com

visto.com mobile email branding

Site Name

Web Site

What they say about themselves

3G Partnership Project

www.3gpp.org

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

Bluetooth

www.bluetooth.comdefault.asp

Official Bluetooth Website

GSM World - 3GSM

www.gsmworld.comtechnology
3g_future.html

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.

GSM Association (GSM Data)

www.gsmworld.comtechnology

The GSM Association Data Task Force has been formed to promote the development of GSM Data Services

International Telecommunications Union

www.itu.inthomeindex.html

The ITU, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland is an international organization within which governments and the private sector

Mobile Data Association

www.mda-mobiledata.org

The Mobile Data Association is the non-profit, global association for vendors and users of mobile data and their advisors.

Wireless World Forum

www.w2forum.com

News and opinions, covering location-based services (LBS), SMS, and 3G.

UMTS Forum

www.umts-forum.org

UMTS is a part of the International Telecommunications Union's 'IMT-2000' vision of a global family of 'third-generation' (3G) mobile communications systems

WAP Forum

www.wapforum.org

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.

Wireless Portal

www.anywhereyougo.com

AnywhereYouGo.com is the world's largest independent community of wireless application developers.

The Cellular Tellecomunications Industry Association (USA)

www.ctia.org

The CTIA is the US industry body representing the mobile telecommunications industry.

Logica

logicacmg.com

Industry leaders in the development of SMS products, services and solutions. Logica has integration and consulting services available.

SMPP Forum

www.smpp.org

The SMPP Forum is a non-profit group dedicated to the development and refinement of the Short Message Peer to Peer protocol.

Nokia Developers Forum

Nokia Developers Forum

 

Ericsson Mobility World

www.ericsson.comMobilityWorld

 

Qualcomm

www.qualcomm.com

 

NTT DoCoMo R&D

nttdocomo.co.jpcorporaterd

NTT DoCoMo Technologies

 

 

4G Ultra Wide Band UWB Wireless


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.

 

Aetherwire

Selected Articles On UWB Technology A collection of links to some interesting and useful articles.

General Atomics

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.

ITS

ITS is the research and engineering branch of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

Multispectral Solutions, Inc (MSSI)

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

NTIA

National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a part of the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC).

Pulse-LINK Inc

Innovative Ultra Wideband Wireless Communications Solutions

Time Domain Corporation

A leader in the development of Ultra Wideband (UWB) wireless technology.

WiMedia Alliance

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).

 

multimediamessaging.com

Clearwire, Cisco to deliver 4G mobile internet services - Telecompaper

Clearwire
iPhone extensions to access Open-Xchange groupware.

IEEE 802.16: The WiMax Buzz  802.16 News  IEEE 802.16 Task Group

CellPoint wireless locator services

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.

Visto Corporation provider of secure push mobile email
Good Technology - Enterprise Wireless Messaging and Application

DataViz push mobile email

www.smspop.com  Short Messaging Service SMS via the web to mobile phone

RFC 2524 (rfc2524) - Neda's Efficient Mail Submission and Delivery .


Subscriber Services:

4G IPWireless
4G by Flarion

 

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher von Braun

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Messaging Anti-Spam, Security, Privacy & Trust

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Benjamin Franklin

 

Spam overwhelms e-mail messages: More than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted, according to a Microsoft security report.

By Darren Waters, Technology editor, BBC News website

 

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is an email-validation system designed to detect and prevent email spoofing. Specified in RFC 7489DMARC is built on top of two existing mechanisms, Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)

 

 

July-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/ITWire reports 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.
 

BAL Consulting PL™ Messaging Anti-Spam Intellectual Property for Sale

A must read: WikipediA on stopping e-mail abuse

 

Spam reaches 30 Year Anniversary - History of Spam

  • BlackList checker Check if the domain is blacklisted by Open Relay DataBase (ORDB) or Distributed Sender Blackhole List (DSBL).
  • Fight Spam on the Internet!
  • Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
  • Address Munging FAQ: Spam-Blocking Your Email Address
  • ChallengeResponse at the SMTP Level: It may be possible to implement a challengeresponse SPAM protection system using custom SMTP Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) that include an HTML confirmation hyperlink.
  • Countering Spam by Using Ham Passwords (Email Passwords)
  • "Countering Spam with Ham-Authenticated Email and the Guarded Email Protocol" describes a challengeresponse system
  • A GPL'ed minimal CAPTCHA CR system.
  • Spam-proofing the mail system; Linux Weekly News; December 17, 2003.
  • Hide email addresses on web sites with JavaScript or letter encoding
  • Alternative way to hide email addresses on web sites with inline CSS
  • Hiding Email Addresses A comprehensive list of methods on how to hide email addresses in source code from spam bots.
  • Spamhaus.org's Register of Known Spamming Operations (ROKSO),  

 

Bill Gates forecasts: "Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time" (he also forecast that "nobody would ever need more than 640K of RAM"); Microsoft has launched the Penny Black Project to make spammers pay.

Bill Gates on spam - Microsoft Press. Also Microsoft's spam-killing proposal

E-Mail Authentication Faces Hurdles

Hotmal Founder Bhatia takes aim at spam

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Should the email sender pay?

Mail blocked by black lists

SORBS (Spam and Open-Relay Blocking System)

Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Abuse: Spam: Blacklists

Goodmail Systems restoring trust in email - with an economic solution that reallocates the cost of email from consumers and ISPs to senders of mass email - a patent-protected email stamping process that addresses the root economic causes of spam.
Political rivals unite against AOL, Yahoo e-mail plan
Return Path >> Making Email Work Better .. Net Creations     
Email reputation by StrongMail.com

SenderBase® The IronPort Security Network

Email & Web Reputation Look Up. You are only as credible as your online reputation. Enter IP address or Domain to look up Reputation

Return Path email Reputation white list receiver solution

Email reputation and deliverability

Secure Computing makes e-mail reputation scores available

senderbase Email 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. 

Cleaning up a bad e-mail reputation | CNET News.com,

Are you on an Email Blacklist?

Email reputation