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Ep 316: Escher's Future of Posts 2023 research
Manage episode 376203090 series 2068608
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Brody Buhler, CEO at Escher Group discusses key findings from Escher's 2023 Future of Posts research. We cover:
- Acceleration of letter volume declines
- Fluctuating parcel volumes
- Major challenges currently facing postal operators
- Postal operators struggling to achieve profitability
- Changing letter and parcel delivery
- Capacity constraints or lack of parcel volumes?
- Bringing inventory closer to the consumer
- Delivery speed and revenue
- Macroeconomic challenges: inflation, profitability erosion, and the reshaping of commerce
- Postal strategy
- Loss-making postal retail operations
- Bringing digital enablement to physical locations
- Increasing network utilisation
- Growing cross-border volumes
- Technologies to achieve strategic goals
- Purpose-built self-service solutions
- Parcel lockers
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Manage episode 376203090 series 2068608
内容由Ian Kerr and Postal Hub Podcast提供。所有播客内容(包括剧集、图形和播客描述)均由 Ian Kerr and Postal Hub Podcast 或其播客平台合作伙伴直接上传和提供。如果您认为有人在未经您许可的情况下使用您的受版权保护的作品,您可以按照此处概述的流程进行操作https://zh.player.fm/legal。
Brody Buhler, CEO at Escher Group discusses key findings from Escher's 2023 Future of Posts research. We cover:
- Acceleration of letter volume declines
- Fluctuating parcel volumes
- Major challenges currently facing postal operators
- Postal operators struggling to achieve profitability
- Changing letter and parcel delivery
- Capacity constraints or lack of parcel volumes?
- Bringing inventory closer to the consumer
- Delivery speed and revenue
- Macroeconomic challenges: inflation, profitability erosion, and the reshaping of commerce
- Postal strategy
- Loss-making postal retail operations
- Bringing digital enablement to physical locations
- Increasing network utilisation
- Growing cross-border volumes
- Technologies to achieve strategic goals
- Purpose-built self-service solutions
- Parcel lockers
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