World Mail Review - Extra Territorial
Offices of Exchange (ETOEs)
The Facts and The Future
Includes a Chart showing
WHO operates ETOEs and WHERE!!
and quarterly updates for 2003
Until the 1980’s there had been little change
in the international mail market for over 100 years. Then private operators
played the Terminal Dues arbitrage card and offered international mailers
cheaper rates. Remail was born.
In the 1990’s forward looking postal
administrations began looking outside of their national boundaries as they
attempted to attract volume from the Express market outside of the confines
of the Universal postal Union (UPU).
The UPU was split on this issue and, at the
same time, most European postal administrations were fighting a rearguard
action against the demands of the European Commission for fair and
transparent postal competition within the European Union.
In the United States magazine publishers
found they could better (and more cheaply) serve their overseas customers by
using airlines to make direct injection of their products into the postal
administration of the country of delivery. Direct Access was born.
In Europe the REIMS Terminal Dues
negotiations rumbled (and still rumble) on. The UPU is still debating the
issue and cannot reach consensus.
As timescales for agreement on Terminal Dues,
competition, liberalisation and customer service slip further and further
back, a number of different types of Extra Territorial Office of Exchange (ETOEs)
have exploded onto the market –all able to offer cheaper rates for the same,
if not better, Quality of Service than that available from the domestic
administration.
Since 11th September 2001, and the aftermath
of the anthrax scare in USA, postal security is paramount. But can all the
ETOEs of the varying size and types provide security to the required level
without compromising Quality of Service?
Postal Administrations have no global
consensus on Terminal Dues, or on ETOEs. Customers are confused. Meanwhile
forward-looking operators are providing the services that their customers
seek.
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What is the future of international mail?
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Will ETOEs survive?
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Will arbitrage continue to be leveraged?
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Can the UPU reach consensus, or will it
wither on the vine?
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Will postal administrations really support
their customers’ needs, or
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Will they continue to procrastinate as the
winds of competitive change blow around them?
These, and many more, questions are answered in
this report.
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