Lately we witnessed some discussions about the possibility that USPS should or would downgrade to a five-day delivery service. The PRC estimated savings of $2.2 Billion per year by transitioning to a five-day delivery. And last year, the PRC looked at suspending service on Tuesday or Saturday.
Eliminating delivery on a day with light mail volume,
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Mailing industry experts do agree that paper based mail volumes will continue to fall. Especially first class mail, a big money maker, is affected by this decline. Part of the decline is due to the economy, but according to Deutsche Post the better part of this decline is caused by the Internet. As this development continues
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USPS can go green and lock in the price of electricity for up to 20 years. And all that without any upfront capital cost.
Such an arrangement can be made possible through a “Solar Power Purchase Agreement” (SPPA), which is a newer business model. Under a SPPA, USPS would allow a solar service provider to
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With this classy statement Swiss Post chairman Claude Begle managed to upset some of his fellow mountain dwellers, which are kind and modest people and not used to such sacrilegious self-congratulations. “L’etat, c’est moi” (I am the state) said Louis XIV, known as the French sun king. Logic almost dictates that Claude Begle could now
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In our last post we ended up joking around that USPS could start it’s own lottery. For some reason this preposterous idea stuck in our heads and we started juggling some numbers in a spreadsheet. A couple hundred million dollars in revenue may be quite possible. Not too bad. We seriously doubt that USPS can
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Do you remember the time when you regularly sent or received personal letters and post cards? In our case it’s been a while, yet we still remember the pleasant excitement of receiving letter correspondence. By now, the treasured occurrences of receiving a letter, have been replaced by a barrage of phone and e-mail messages,
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The change is coming
Paper based mail has been very successful for a long time by providing a multitude of satisfactory services for senders and recipients. Transactional mailings, certified mail, return receipt, direct mail, personal messages and many other services are so far been well taken care of within the traditional paper based
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We updated the table as follows:
Version 1.3: (Jan-20th-2010)
Added ePost /India
Added E-Post/Romania
Added GreenPost/Singapore
The newest version of the table can be downloaded here.
Please let us know what data you would like to see included in future document revisions.
Services listed in table are:
Mein Brief.atRaiffeisen / Austria Post,
CertiPost, Belgian Post Group (BPG) and Belgacom,
Bermuda
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