GlobalePost To Pilot by Year-end.(Universal Postal Union service)

From: The Online Reporter | Date: October 8, 2001 | Copyright information

The GlobalePost service is scheduled to move into pilot by the end of the year.

A joint initiative of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), US Postal Service, Swiss Post, Post Danmark, Sweden Post and Portugal Post, GlobalePost is a guaranteed delivery and payment service targeted at Internet and catalog merchants looking to expand their cross-border selling opportunities.

The service seeks to leverage the postal retail network by letting customers pre-pay for th...

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