Deutsche Post DHL has broadened its mail products with a new international hybrid service fromDHL Global Mail and new launch customers for its forthcoming secure electronic mail service in
Germany.DHL Global Mail’s new international solution “Global Hybrid Print & Mail” enables companiesto send out large volumes to other countries faster, greener and more cost-effectively. The productcombines the advantages of electronic and traditional mail to make international mailing moreefficient.
With the new product, customers electronically transmit the data for their mailings to GlobalMail, which pre-sorts it and prepares ready-to-print files. The documents are then printed as closeas possible to their destinations and inserted into the local mail stream. This process, whichGlobal Mail coordinates with printing and fulfillment partners worldwide, significantly reducesdelivery times and postage costs. In addition to transactional mail, direct marketing pieces canalso be sent using Global Hybrid Print & Mail.
The mailing solution not only reduces transit times and postage costs, but also helps companiesavoid delays caused by events disrupting international transportation, DHL Global Mail pointed out.For example, not one Global Hybrid Print & Mail delivery was delayed when much of Europe’sairspace was recently closed by ash from an Icelandic volcano eruption. Additionally, reducing thedistance mail is transported by air and road in this way cuts CO2 emissions by up to 80% per lettercompared with the traditional model of local printing and global distribution, according to someexperts.
“Global Hybrid Print & Mail streamlines international mailing, enabling companies to cuttheir printing and postage costs while accelerating delivery,” said Lee Spratt, CEO of DHL GlobalMail, Americas. “It’s also one more way Global Mail promotes climate protection.”
Meanwhile, in Germany, Deutsche Post has announced the name of its new internet letter service –the ‘E-Postbrief’ (‘E-Post Letter’) – and named three more major launch customers for the product,which is due to be started commercially in July. The new corporate customers are financial servicesand insurance group Allianz, with some 19 million customers in Germany, the German FootballAssociation (DFB) and the Mercedes-Benz motor sport division, whose future electronic mailings willinclude highly confidential technical and planning information.
“With their large number of private customers and brand power these partners will help to makethe E-Postbrief into a success across Germany,” declared Jürgen Gerdes, head of mail and parcels.Allianz Germany CIO Ralf Schneider commented: “The electronic interaction with the E-Postbriefoffers us for the first time the opportunity for secure and legally binding written customercommunications through the internet.”
Previously announced launch customers include the German automobile association ADAC, lotteryoperator LOTTO Hessen, DekaBank, two insurance companies BIG Direktkrankenversicherung and ZurichVersicherung as well as the Kommunale Rechenzentrum Minden-Ravensberg/Lippe (krz) which handlescorrespondence for numerous local councils.
The E-Postbrief will offer consumers, companies and public authorities secure, confidential andbinding electronic communications, including certain identification of sender and recipient. Hybridmail options will also be available.
