FRANKFURT (Dow Jones) – The German Post AG plans, according to a magazine report is already four months into the new product is a legally binding online letter to the market. (Photo: German Post)
The group wanted a future defined in the Act citizen portal, called e-mail De-mail to introduce in June, reported the "Business Week" (Wirtschaftwoche) in its edition published on Monday, referring to the business community.
A legally binding e-mail, Deutsche Post would probably cost around 20 cents. The Bonn-based group only hope in the first year of a three-digit million sales with the online letter, writes the magazine.
A post spokesman confirmed to Dow Jones Newswires earlier statements that the price for the online letter "in due time called" pre-launch will be. The launch is planned for mid-year.
According Wirtschaftwoche the German post office with about 20 cents per online letter would be significantly above the projected rates of competitors. Sun 1 & 1 executive board in January Oetjen see, responsible for the e-mail provider, Web.de and GMX, the price for a de-mail with more than 15 cents. Are possible but also "single-digit sums per cent de-mail," Oetjen said the magazine. The final pricing strategy, "said Oetjen, he had" not yet defined.
Since October 2009 several companies are already testing such as the German Telekom AG and 1 & 1 in a pilot project in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, the de-mail. "The system is stable," says Oetjen.
According to the Post wants Wirtschaftwoche for the new service primarily at attracting large insurance companies and companies that send the example pay slips, invoices, policies and tariff changes to date by letter. In the Post wants to promote, particularly through its Reliability and Privacy Policy.
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