Links

Links

www.upu.int

The best starting place to research postal statistics by country and to find out about new regulations & standards as set by the Global Body - The UPU (Universal Postal Union). The UPU is a United Nations organisation based in Berne Switzerland, and has 189 Country members.

The statistics database covers several years of information from letter volumes, meters in operation, number of postal offices, financial results etc.

Click here to access the UPU listing of Post Office websites from around the world.

www.itu.int

For those of you who are interested in what's happening in the telecommunications marketplace, check out the UPU equivalent global standards body, ITU (International telecommunications Union).

As telecommunication organisations are a major producer of mail and bills, this is a good site to start researching what is going on. There are links to many other Telecom related sites.

www.billing.org

Anything that has billing in its title should ring opportunity bells for those of you who sell paperhandling systems/solutions. This is an association of billing software users and suppliers in the mobile and fixed telecommunications.

www.gsmworld.com

As it suggests, this is a site dedicated to GSM mobile phone communications. GSM is the standard which is used by 160 million users - in 133 countries - and run by 347 network operators.

Pitney Bowes have been very sucessful in supplying inserting equipment to the new mobile phone operators - from the Spectrum right through to high volume production mail machines.

www.xerox.com

The complete range of Xerox printers up to the latest Xerox DP900 & DP1300 - continuous production printers - speeds up to 1300 pages per minute - very fast. Full specs and some retail pricing details - comprehensive links as well.

http://www.xerox.com/go/xrx/products/matrix.jsp?category=-8173

Good link to a comparison chart of all the Xerox Production printers.

www.oce.com

There are only a few major volume printer vendors of note - Oce, IBM, Xerox and Nipson. Here is Oce's site. Learn all about their print and software solutions from 1000 images per minute Pagestream 1000's to their pinless feed capabilities. Remember Pitney Bowes works closely with and supports all printer vendor solutions.

www.printers.ibm.com

http://www.printers.ibm.com/psc.nsf/frame/config?
opendocument&CAT=products+CONTENT=productsoverview

IBM - production printer solutions - Infoprint 3000 & 4000 series, full specifications and details are available.

www.nipson.com

Nipson are not as well known as the other printer vendors but have printers which go upto 1500 pages per minute - fast!

www.xplor.com

Xplor is the global organisation that represents all who are users or suppliers of document and digital publishing solutions. They are also behind the most influential and biggest event which focusses on Production Mail, printing and finishing solutions - Xplor - this year from Oct 31 - November 5th in Los Angeles.

This site has full conference/exhibition details and other information related to the industry. Worth becoming a member.

http://www.rollsystems.com/

Roll Systems Inc. are a Pitney Bowes partner and the dominant supplier in the USA of pre and post print solutions for continuous roll to roll or continuous to cut sheet systems. For high volume mailers - Roll solutions offer excellent productivity improvements and a fast ROI.

All of the Roll Sytems Systems are available through Pitney Bowes Distributor Operations for turnkey solutions."

www.envelope.org

The envelope manufacturers association has lots of useful areas of interest and links & specifications.

http://lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html

If you want to learn how to use search engines on the Web to find and research items, then this University of Berkeley site has a great tutorial.