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Postal reform finally passed not because everybody was happy with it. Nobody—and certainly not the NALC—was completely satisfied. But that is true for any major legislation that affects millions of people and businesses. No, it passed because all the competing interests in the postal industry—mailers, vendors, competitors, unions, and management associations—judged that it was the most that could be achieved at this time. Indeed, each of the unions (including NALC and APWU) and many of the other key stakeholders could have attempted to block the measure by having just one senator speak up. No senator objected because none of the key stakeholders in the postal community requested it.
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February 27, 2002 -- The Financial Times (U.K.) has reported that "businesses are to get priority over households for early postal deliveries, Royal Mail said yesterday. It confirmed proposals, first made at the start of the year, to drop the second daily delivery and replace it with a single delivery to business addresses between 7am and 9am. Urban households should receive mail between 9am and 1pm, while rural homes would receive post by late lunchtime. Royal Mail hopes the proposals will ensure more first class mail arrives the next working day."
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Northrop Grumman’s first generation of flats sorting technologies is in operation at Postal Service processing centers nationwide. FSS represents the next generation of flats automation by sorting mail to the delivery sequence of each carrier, thereby reducing manual sorting. Flat mail is a labor-intensive category of mail to process and deliver due to variations in size and thickness
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February 26, 2002 -- According to The Birmingham Post (United Kingdom), "rural business leaders in the Midlands have launched a campaign to fight off the threat to vital postal services in the countryside. The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) is urging people to send a postcard of their town or village to the postal regulator Postcomm, insisting that rural services must be safeguarded in any privatisation scheme. It hopes the letter-writing campaign will ensure the Government, which is consulting on possible privatisation of mail deliveries, is left in no doubt about the importance of a quality postal service to rural communities."
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DeskDirect Global offers easy access and new business opportunities to mail originators, mail fulfillment centers and postal administrations in a truly revolutionary business model. The service is backed by the experience of Australia Post and established PrintSoft technology for hybrid mail management.
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In a statement, he said the Postal Service has put forward to Congress a Transformation Plan, a series of short-term and long-term solutions to protecting mail service for all. Jackson, who was part of the Postal Service committee that developed the plan, said it would create a new business model for the Postal Service, preserve universal mail delivery and strengthen the mail system.
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