The game is on. Swiss Post has established Inca Mail, a secure e-mail service, which is even used by the Swiss legal system, and Deutsche Post is now following suit.
Here a summary of an article in “Financial Times Deutschland” (FTD):
Deutsche Post (german postal service) is using targeted lobbying to block a secure e-mail service
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Archive for September, 2009
Announcement: It's vacation time, again. We will be back by begin of October. Thanks for your readership and patience.
Over the last years the topic of hybrid electrical vehicles (HEV) and electric vehicles (EV) popped up with increasing frequency. And in various postal forums it was subsequently suggested that USPS also convert to HEVs or EVs. So we decided to dive in tad……
Let’s start with the basics. USPS has around 142000 Long Life
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1st class mail volumes have been dropping consistently over the last couple of years. Many people have switched to on-line banking for handling their accounts at various financial institutions. Since the early days of on-line banking there have always been security issues of one sort or anoher, but now the threats are getting
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And we mean the far future. Like…. let’s say 40 or 50 years. Now that’s a tough one to predict. But we’ll try anyways. FYI: When we use the term standard mail in this discussion we do exclude small parcels. Our gut feeling tells us that 2 major factors will determine the long term
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We were reading the USPS strategic plan and found it interesting to a degree. Especially one point caught our interest.
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LEVERAGE OUR STRENGTHS
We are a familiar and trusted presence in communities throughout the country.
Every day, millions of customers visit their local Post Office. We have the
largest distribution system in the country, backed by increasingly sophisticated
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