International e-payment plan advances

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The Universal Postal Union announced that it has made progress on an initiative geared towards increasing payment options for online and offline marketers around the world. The GlobalePost initiative would bring the international money-order transfer system online and will allow merchants to accept electronic orders from consumers in any country. Through GlobalePost, consumers can send payments for their orders electronically through their local post offices.

International Affairs, World, Universal Postal Union

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Postal concerns in Bush budget

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The lack funds for Civil Service Retirement System funding for the United States Postal Service in the Bush's federal budget proposal are discussed. Increased postal rates and improved quality in service are suggested.

Financial management, Product quality, Commodity & service prices, Management dynamics, Postal Service, US Postal Service, Other General Government Support, Retirements (Honors), Management, Planning, Finance, Prices and rates, Budget, Budgets, Quality management, Bush, George W., United States. Postal Service, Company business management, Retirement, Company business planning, Company financing, Company pricing policy, United States. Civil Service Retirement System

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Cincinnati Bell cleans data to help it compete in deregulated world

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Cincinnati Bell Telephone (CBT), which offers local exchange services in the Cincinnati, OH, area, has corrected, updated and organized its customer database in a bid to become more competitive in the deregulated telecommunications market. Origin Technologies, an information technology consulting firm and a subsidiary of Phillips Electronics, had implemented CBT's database-cleanup project that was began in 1996 and completed in the summer of 1998. One of the objectives of the cleanup project was to enable CBT's customer service representatives to determine whether to open up a new account or to simply add data to the customer's existing account. CBT likewise wanted to make sure that each customer received only one bill and a single direct mail solicitation.

Use of services, Computer Systems Design and Related Services, Contracts & orders received, Contract Software & Services, Wired Telecommunications Carriers, Company Planning/Goals, Local Telephone Service, Systems Management (Contract), Computer Facilities Management Services, Information technology services, Software support services, Local telephone services, Computer systems, Article, Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co., Origin Technology in Business Inc.

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