Archive for November, 2009

Deutsche Post goes digital

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 [...]

zumbox vs. NoMorePost (part2)

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, [...]

Disappearing USPS Collection Boxes

Quote from USPS OIG article News about disappearing collection boxes is everywhere these days. Even BBC News ran a story on the decline of the blue collection box in the United States. The Postal Service argues that picking up mail from collection boxes is expensive. Removing underused boxes is a cost savings move and a [...]