zumbox and NoMorePost are providing paperless mail services and are starting to compete with conventional delivered paper mail. NoMorePost is based in the UK and zumbox is based in the US.
We made a first short comparison between zumbox and NoMorePost and here are our impressions:
Web Page:
Both companies need an informative and easy to navigate
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Archive for October, 2009
Announcement: It's vacation time, again. We will be back by begin of October. Thanks for your readership and patience.
zumbox vs. NoMorePost
Oct 27
Most technologies and services go through technology and product life cycles. It is reasonable to assume that postal products and services will follow a life cycle as well.
According to the life-cycle science, the decline of technologies, products and services will happen in given time. Life-cycle management is a main staple to successfully manage short-lived
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Pitney Bowes is a seasoned player in the traditional mailing industry, has 36,000 employees, and offers a quite wide variety of products, typically somehow related with the mail medium paper. Since Pitney Bowes is suing zumbox, we thought that Pitney Bowes might already offer some digital mail technologies, which are comparable to zumbox.
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zumbox and “junk mail”
Oct 13
The zumbox website indicates that zumbox will not only send bills and statements, but also direct marketing mail, which the public commonly refers to as junk mail. Direct marketers like to use paper “junk mail” for it’s high visual impact and the resulting response rates. One reason for the high visual impact, is the low
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Electrical Vehicles were presented by 11 different companies, displaying electric bikes, cars and vans. Electric scooters were strongly presented and are becoming popular in European postal environments. For example Swiss Post is buying 250 more scooters from Oxygen. Swiss Post has a fleet of about 7000 gasoline powered scooters.
Mail Gateway Technologies
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In other Blog-entries we already pointed out that paper bills and statements have virtually disappeared in Europe. Payments are done with a type of wire-transfer, online or by automatic payment transactions. When the average European is confronted with US-style billing and payment transactions, it usually results in utter disbelief, accompanied by some head shaking.
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The Loadhog “Pally” is a pallet with Dolly functionality. The wheels can be easily retracted and extended with a foot operated lever. Weights up to 500kg can be placed on one Pally…..
We spent 2 days at the Post Expo 2009 in Hannover, Germany. One product group which caught our attention were self service POS stations and parcel counters.
aCon Self Post Unit and Self Post Locker
Of course these technologies have been around for some years already, but so far not too many are deployed.
A new Trojan, called “URL-zone”, is now starting to run wild in Germany. It is a rather crafty Trojan, which not only steals password and username, but it also allows for remote control of the infected computer. The infected computer is then instructed to execute a money transfer, which executes in the background
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