FedEx's 2004 purchase of Kinko's, the office services firm, drew criticism, and its revenues are flat.
The supermarket said it would move support and back office services away from Lloyds over a 42-month period.
For example, one of the biggest growth areas for accounting firms is providing family office services to the ultra-affluent.
Mr Thomas said that one possibility would be integrating local post office services with existing shops and pubs in rural areas.
This has resulted in a long-term drop in traditional mail volumes, particularly letters, and declining demand for conventional post office services.
Mr Lafley sees Indian firms shaking up the way foreign companies operate, and not only with back-office services where many began.
The campaign shows that by performing back office services, Xerox allows its partners to focus on their business better and more efficiently.
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Now TeleTech is trying to diversify its revenues from responding to inbound customer calls, 90% of today's sales, to more back-office services.
Where there is a change, 9.5% would have access to post office services within one mile by road distance to the nearest alternative branch.
At best, the rubble of Southern Cross will survive as an outsourcer of back-office services, such as payroll, to a small collection of landlords.
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Gleason now likes the looks of Orthodontic Centers (nyse: OCA - news - people ) of America, which provides back-office services to orthodontists.
Their bet is that India will be an outsourcing centre not just for software but for call centres and other back-office services that can be delivered by wire.
"People will be forced to fit around a timetable for accessing Post Office services, " said Nick Bourne, AM for mid and west Wales and leader of the Welsh Conservatives.
Institutional investors infuriated by management's attempt to buy two construction companies controlled by relatives of Satyam's founder have reportedly sounded out IT firms and buyout funds about their interest in the software and back-office services heavyweight.
Today the company also negotiates pricing with insurance companies and even handles doctors' back-office payment services.
In addition to its traditional services of letter and parcel delivery, the Post Office now provides services such as e-commerce fulfilment, billing and customer management, logistics and warehousing.
That's because the coalition government's programme for government contains a commitment to create "a single agency to take on the work of tackling serious economic crime done by the Serious Fraud Office, the Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading".
To understand the difference, consider the CIA's World War II predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services.
Vikram Mehta, CEO of BLADE Network Technologies, and Tom Benfi, vice president at Insurances Services Office, Inc.
He is also chairman of OAO Technology Solutions, director of Ball Corporation, Insurance Services Office, SDI Inc.
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William Donovan, chief of the Office of Strategic Services, tapped him to recruit and oversee agents in a bid to penetrate Germany.
At around 01:45 BST, a fork-lift type truck was driven into Wilkinson's Financial Services Office in High Street, Ruskington and the cash machine was stolen.
The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which grew out of World War II era Office of Strategic Services and small post-war intelligence organizations.
During orientation, Tuck's career-services office advises international students on which companies might hire visa-dependent students, and provides pointers on happy hour mingling and the importance of a firm handshake.
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An opinion issued by the Office of Legislative Services, which serves as nonpartisan staff for the Legislature, said Mr. Christie has the option of picking either November 2013 or 2014.
The University of Pennsylvania Career Services office has set the bar high by establishing a comprehensive survey of recently graduated alumni and publishing it in a clear and accessible manner.
Among other things, the inquiry led to the creation of a behind-the-lines intelligence-gathering organizer of anti-Nazi operations, the Office of Strategic Services, which was the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ed Koch, a spokesman for the youth services office of Berlin's Tempelhof-Schoeneberg district, where the young man has been staying in the youth home, told CNN he is very angry about the hoax.
In the second world war he was attached to the Office of Strategic Services, an intelligence unit, picking targets in Germany for American bombers to attack, and rose to the rank of major.
His service in the United States Army from 19431977 included an assignment with the Office of Strategic Services that involved parachuting into occupied France to work with the Resistance to support the Allied invasion.
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