Automation Technology of the Year: XMS (eXtended Mail Sorter) from Solystic Postal automation involves widely…
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With the huge increases in the postal rate announced this week by the Royal Mail, it’s important that Britain’s SMEs are not caught out.
Although the impending privatisation of the UK’s Royal Mail has been openly discussed for some time, it did come as a surprise to some in the sector to hear the true extent of their financial difficulties. Surely this is going to deter would-be investors unless the organisation has a clear strategy to present outlining how it intends to become more profitable?
Postal services play a key role in many countries, providing access to basic communication and transaction services. Public postal operators are among the largest employers and most trusted retail network operators in each country, generating hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue.
Even in the current challenging economic climate there are a number of rapidly growing transportation and logistics companies who are cleverly employing technology to enable them to take on the established major players. Dave Upton looks at how these companies will be the stars of the future and the ones that don’t embrace technology will not.
Europe ‘s postal market is undergoing a period of change as markets open to increased competition. With postal providers jockeying for position so the number of services and options available to bulk mailers gradually increases. Richard Thompson, Managing Director, Pitney Bowes, outlines how technology and services are enabling businesses to navigate this choice to optimise postage efficiency and spend.
There has been a lot of discussion recently regarding the future of the postal industry and the need for traditional services to adapt in order to remain sustainable. This discussion has not always taken into account that while technology has been a major challenge to the industry it has also helped provide the solutions. David Picton explains more
The increasing demand for an interactive consumer marketplace has led to modernisation in the postal industry being something of a buzzword at the moment. With this in mind, Simon Campbell looks at how posts can bring together physical and electronic delivery
Ever since the government announced a review of the UK postal services market in December 2007 there has been an underlying element of uncertainty within the mail market. Some of that was removed when Richard Hooper published his long awaited report: Modernise or decline: policies to maintain the universal postal service in the United Kingdom, on 16 December 2008.