Swiss Post is now digitizing physical items and sending them to personal electronic mailboxes on request, allowing customers to receive and deal with their physical letter mail over the Internet – and therefore any time, anywhere.

Swiss Post scans in letters redirected and puts them in the electronic Swiss Post Box. The new service is aimed at people who are often away and wish to deal with their letter mail promptly and online. The Swiss Post Box will initially be available in Switzerland and Germany. France, Italy and Austria will follow in July.

Swiss Post said the new service will make it easier to access physical letter mail and addresses the needs of an ever more mobile society, allowing customers of the service full control over their letter mail, wherever they happen to be.

The basic price of a subscription for an individual starts with Euro 14 a month. Extra services are charged on top of this. From 1 July 2009, members of the Miles & More frequent flyer programme will also be able to use air miles to pay.

Swiss Post Box is already being tested at Siemens Mobility (Switzerland and Germany) and will soon be in use at Microsoft Switzerland. However, Swiss Post Box is not only of interest to large and medium-sized businesses, but to smaller ones, too. For example, it is being used by the fully Internet-based start-up SwissPoll, allowing the market research specialist to deal with customer correspondence securely, in less time and on attractive terms.

Source: Swiss Post

© Hellmail.co.uk (15 June 2009)

This article can now be Stumbled, E-mailed to a friend or displayed in an easy-print format.

See Also >>

• Swiss Post - Gutenberg To The Internet (05 May 2009)
  
• Swiss Post - Airside And wholesale Under One Roof In UK (11 May 2009)
  
• Swiss Post Warnings On Competition (20 May 2009)
  

Hellmail content is covered by copyright and may not be reproduced without a return link to the article.