The German Association for Post, IT and Telecommunication (DVPT) has polled its members (enterprises and public institutions) about their planned usage of the upcoming digital paperless mail systems, E-Postbrief and De-Mail. Only 20% of the companies are considering implementation of paperless mail within the next 12 months. 23% are generally not planning any future implementation.
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Within 10 years, and contrary to some pep talks in the direct mail industry, we foresee that future tablet devices will take a measurable bite out of paper-based direct mail volumes. Ever improving iPad-class devices will become a very attractive vehicle for targeted sensible advertising. The key to sensible advertising is to avoid flooding the
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We updated the table as follows:
Version 1.4: (May-13th-2010)
Added Apartado Postal Electronico / Spain
Added SafeMail /Ireland
The newest version of the table can be downloaded here.
Services listed in table are:
Apartado Postal Electronico / Spain
SafeMail /Ireland
Mein Brief.atRaiffeisen / Austria Post,
CertiPost, Belgian Post Group (BPG) and Belgacom,
Bermuda Postal Service,
EPM Canada Post,
ePost, Canada Post,
Cayman Islands Postal
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In October 2009, zumbox was being sued by Pitney Bowes over various alleged patent infringements. At the time zumbox was making quite some headlines with their paperless mail offering, especially when some major cities signed up with the zumbox service. Since then, we haven’t heard of any news indicating that the lawsuit has been resolved.
Some days ago Pitney
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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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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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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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Deutsche Post goes digital
Nov 24
Deutsche Post has released some more info about the coming Online-Letter (“Online-Brief”) product. It is due to start in the first half of 2010, the price structuring is yet unknown. Deutsche Post says that flat rates or per-piece pricing, or both, could be possible. German newspapers indicate that the price would be less than 10
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In the first part of our comparison we concluded that more convenient bill payment options are needed for US based operations, and that zumbox seems potentially more prone to “junk mail” than NoMorePost.
What follows is a closer look at the cost of paperless mailings, and for that we will distinguish between transactional mailings (bills, statements,
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zumbox vs. NoMorePost
Oct 27
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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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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