At the Financial Mail in Johannesburg I covered economics and edited business stories, and when Nelson Mandela was released, I spent the day in Soweto with the toyi-toying masses.
In addition to the eight million people and 1.1 trillion dollars in direct mail, financial services, and related industries that are directly reliant on the Postal Service, the future of many small businesses and entrepreneurs hang in the balance as well.
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Labour MPs who object say at least part of Royal Mail's financial problems stem from an earlier attempt to inject competition.
By tackling the web shops that profit from spam, UK net firms hope to remove the financial incentive to send junk mail.
As Alex Brummer, financial editor of the Daily Mail, points out, by stiff-arming small depositors, European banking regulators have crossed a Rubicon.
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Twenty thousand printers, most of them with fewer than 20 employees, print everything from financial documents and junk-mail pieces to lush, ten-color brochures for the auto industry.
Most of the mail agency's financial woes come from mounting mandatory costs for future retiree health benefits.
On July 11, 2003, the firm's chief financial officer sent an e-mail to all employees, including Hertz, saying there should be no trading in Track Data shares until earnings were announced on Aug. 12.
Next step, install and then go through the configuration wizard, which will bring you to a page where you can select the back-up sets you want, such as e-mail and contacts, financial information and photos and images and even your browser bookmarks.
The company believed that the key to building mail would be to get financial institutions and utilities to use the postal system.
It also supports a parasitic economy of card marketers, credit scorers, collection agencies, junk-mail printers, letter carriers, financial reform lobbyists and yacht-sailing antitrust lawyers.
For sensitive data such as telephone numbers, postal and e-mail addresses, social security numbers or financial data, a site would have to explicitly request a user's permission to track and store the information.
"The baroness has shown absolutely no respect for my father and is simply putting her own financial needs above everything else, " she told the Mail on Sunday.
Petry's client Merrill Lynch (nyse: ML - news - people ) has, like most financial firms, banned employees from using personal e-mail accounts while at work.
Less than 5% of shareholders who receive only a form directing them to vote online actually vote, while 20% of shareholders who receive the materials by mail vote, says Chuck Callan of Broadridge Financial Solutions, which handles proxy processing for brokerage firms.
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Of course, the subsidizing of junk mail is more than just a nuisance and waste of financial resources.
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Another beauty of this system: Once you input your portfolio Cusips and are set up for e-mail alerts, you are able to monitor which of your issuers are good financial citizens and file on time.
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They say that e-mail addresses are far less sensitive pieces of information than, say, medical or financial records.
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But if accessing mobile e-mail and the occasional fact are enough, the main reason to delay may be financial.
With that information, EMMA will then e-mail you (at the same time as the big managers) the disclosures, financial and material events for your muni bonds.
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And a footer stating that nothing in the e-mail should be used to break the law would be of no protection to a lawyer or financial adviser sending a message that did suggest something illegal.
In another ongoing case, Ponemon founder Larry Ponemon says he is consulting with a major financial institution currently being investigated by several states' attorneys general in a major data breach attributed to an e-mail marketing partner.
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