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The Communication Logistics Blog
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The Communication Logistics Blog. Welcome to the Communication Logistics blog! Stay ahead of the crowd and learn more about the communication logistics market - subscribers to our blog are the first to be informed about new articles and information published on our site. We'll also be telling you what others are saying about us, and letting you know where you can meet us in person, at conferences and industry events. The Communication Logistics Specialists. PS: Don't forget to subscribe! Apr 13, 2016.
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Understanding International Ecommerce & the Postal Environment
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International Ecommerce and The Postal Environment. Since the opening decade of the 21st century, when international ecommerce was first added to the program of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), there has been significant growth in ecommerce within retail sales. A Trillion Dollar Industry. According to research presented at the 25th UPU Congress in Doha in 2012, by 2013 business-to-consumer (B2C) ecommerce will be worth an estimated USD 1.1 trillion and involve around 10 billion parcels. These developmen...
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Postal Regulations & Legal Frameworks; Global, European and National
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Postal Regulations: Global, European and National. Today’s local, regional and global exchange of mail is based on postal regulations and a legal framework supported by technical & service-oriented standards. The standards for the global postal network are developed and regulated by the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a special organisation of the United Nations. The UPU determines the postal regulations and legal framework for its members’ interactions. UPU Striding Forward Into The Digital Age. Shifting ...
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An Ecommerce Business Plan For Europe
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An Ecommerce Business Plan For Europe. Seamless cross-border ecommerce is the key to Europe's future growth and prosperity. But if designed by the national incumbents, national barriers will remain. Despite the best intentions of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), national postal incumbents in Europe are currently making every effort to retain their domestic monopolies. Their ecommerce business plan strives to extend their dominance from the physical into the digital sphere. However, postal services still...
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Data Protection: The Core Of New Postal Service Provision
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Postal services are now data-driven, not item-driven, placing data protection at the core of new postal service provision. The following article was written by Walter Trezek and published in The Future is in the Post II: Perspectives on transformation in the postal industry, Ed. Derek Osborn and Kristian Sund, 2011. The Medium is the Message: Mail and Postal Service Provision in a Global Village . Postal service provision, the global nature of the postal network, the legal framework for postal services, ...
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Communication Logistics Industry Best Practice Series
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The Communication Logistics Industry. Global best practice blueprints for the future. As we move from an item-driven into a data-driven environment, from analogue to digital communications, businesses in the communication logistics industry are being forced to adapt their business models to reflect changing customer demands and expectations, and create national, regional and global ecosystems. Organizations are springing up to protect the interests of individual consumers who increasingly understand that...
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Disruptive Developments in B2C Ecommerce
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Disruptive Developments in B2C Ecommerce. Parcel post, express and courier companies, particularly the national incumbents, are confident that their current position in the b2c ecommerce environment as the as mediator between seller and consumer is unassailable. Anyone monitoring developments in the parcel delivery market over the past 2 4 years will have observed that:. Incumbents are focused on sheltering their domestic markets. 1: Last mile delivery no longer restricted to national incumbents. Globall...
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From Postal Services to Communication Logistics - A Short History
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From Postal Services to Communication Logistics. A Short History of the Postal Services. As the European postal services market has been fully liberalized, postal operators (PO) have understood that the markets upstream and downstream of the core postal service provision are the key to their future. Step One: Analogue to Hybrid. Traditional POs developed to provide a secured infrastructure for exchanging physical postal items letter post items up to 2 kg in weight and parcel post items up to 31.5 kg.