These include web apps from major shippers that can check for compliance and estimate costs, low-cost international calling plans and companies that offer global payroll services.

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Global payroll has become routine.

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And Deutsche Post, with 60, 000 unsackable civil servants on its payroll, has prospered by turning into a global logistics firm.

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