The theme of the forum is “Building a strong platform for global trade” and it will focus on strategic issues, business opportunities with e-commerce, intensifying last mile capability and expanding financial services.

The Asian-Pacific region is at the forefront of global postal industry developments and 22 postal operators from the APPU community will participate in the Forum.

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• More than 3,500 attendees from 100 different countries came to see a diverse range of emerging technologies in the postal sector, from droids and electric vehicles to sortation and scanning technologies.

• Running alongside the exhibition, POST-EXPO 2017 Conference saw more than 70 speakers present on the most important topics in the postal sector, from how to adopt innovative practices into posts, to the growth in e-commerce and updates on cross-border regulations.

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Courier firm Tipax won a government-run auction to be Iran’s first private postal operator earlier this year. From March 2018, the company will work alongside government-owned operator Iran Post as one of two private postal operators in the country.

Yasmine Kiani, director of international relations, Tipax, said, “The government wants to restructure the postal market and expand and improve the delivery system to support the intense boom in e-commerce in Iran.

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The company showed its latest Vantage high output mail sorter for the first time in Europe, available with an in-line metering function. The Vantage is the only high-speed sorter with the capability to meter mail in-line at speeds of more than 24km/h.

In-line metering eliminates the need for manual metering or separating mail, enabling operators to process mail automatically.

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The line sorter, which has a lower capacity than Beumer’s loop sorter, is aimed at use in medium-sized parcel sorting centers, a new market segment for the company. The line sorter will be available early 2018.

The line sorter is based on the same well-proven technology as the loop sorter and has high levels of friction, which pushes the item into the discharge chute.

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The solution has been integrated into Lyngsoe Systems’s Manual Image Capturing Stations (MICS), and was demonstrated for the first time at POST-EXPO 2017.

what3words’s global addressing system divides the world into 57 trillion 3x3m squares, each with a unique address made of three dictionary words. The three-word addresses follow a consistent format and are optimized for optical character recognition (OCR) scanning.

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The Delivery Happiness Platform is due to be made available in the next update of its software at the end of October 2017. It will be available in the form of a web application for customers that gives them information on shipment status, ETA and live location of the shipment, and lets them rate a delivery experience.

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Held for the first time during POST-EXPO 2017, the world’s leading event for the postal and parcel sector, the Postal Innovation Platform’s Startup Jury competition invited 12 startups to present their products and services to an expert panel of five judges.

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The redesigned logo aims to reinforce the company’s commitment to postal operators during a period when emerging technology is changing the sector and consumer demand is growing.

The company’s slogan “we understand post” highlights Escher’s 30 years of experience in the postal industry and the understanding it has of the industry’s complexities and intricacies across different geographies.

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The winners across all seven categories were announced during a ceremony and drinks reception at this year’s POST-EXPO event in Geneva, which is expected to attract 3,500 visitors to its exhibition and conference.

The awards celebrate the outstanding performance of this key global industry, which continues to develop to meet the changing needs of its customers and the profile of the post and parcel world?.

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