Eight foreign post offices have already started to compete for bulk mail contracts in Britain.
Indeed, it expressly decided not to liberalise bulk mail overnight, accepting that this would be too painful for incumbents required to deliver a universal service.
Mr Riseley said postal operators were experiencing significant changes in the market including a drop in bulk mail due to the loss of Low Value Consignment Relief (LVCR).
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Eight foreign post offices from the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Switzerland and France have already established sales offices in Britain to compete for bulk mail contracts.
Most bulk mail programs used to manage mailing lists, promotions and other forms of electronic marketing have a test tool that will work out what chance the messages have of getting through industry-standard spam filters.
Colum Courtney the managing director of Hybrid Mail Solutions, a new bulk mail service based in Lisnaskea, said his business has a great fibre optic broadband connection which allows it to be strategically placed on the border.
The group has recently made representations to the UK mail regulator Postcomm to be allowed to lift the price of its bulk business mail deliveries.
One of them is Andrew Brunner, the 27-year-old chairman of CyberCreek, which sells bulk e-mail software called Avalanche.
The goal of a third MAPS project is to create a best practices document in cooperation with bulk e-mail companies.
Avalanche comes with technology that rotates or changes the headers on bulk e-mail, thereby allowing it to slip past many filters.
Nicholas has written and begun circulating a draft of the document, and the bulk e-mail companies, including Message Media, Topic A, White Hat and Business Link, are in the early stages of discussing it, Nicholas said.
And already, PostComm, the British regulator, has granted licences that allow rival operators to compete with Royal Mail for bulk contracts for letters.
Google's computers automatically detect and sort that type of semi-trash e-mail into three categories -- bulk, notifications and forums.
Last year nearly 100 jobs were cut at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in Glasgow while in 2010 the bulk of staff at the Sunday Times in Glasgow lost their jobs when the paper scaled back its Scottish edition.
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