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L-Mail.com teams up with Redmail Austria

28th February 2005

L-Mail, the online letter writing service, has teamed up with Austrian postal service provider redmail. The new business relationship will enable L-Mail customers located anywhere in the world to have letters printed and posted direct in Austria saving postal costs and increasing speed of delivery.

redmail, a joint venture of the Austrian publishing group Styria Medien AG and the Dutch TPG Post Group, is the largest private postal operator in Austria.

Peter Harris, Managing Director of L-Mail commented, "We are really enjoying working with redmail. They have been very receptive to the L-Mail concept and their central European location is ideal for L-Mail customers who wish to write letters to this area. Redmail has the reputation of being flexible and more economical than the competition and our relationship has already proven this."

Robert Rappold, Head of Legal Department and PR representative of redmail commented "Through our co-operation with L-Mail redmail gains access to additional cross border mail volumes, a fact which will contribute to strengthen the position of redmail in the Austrian as well as in the European postal market. Achieving this by lowering the postal charges for L-Mail users is really a pleasure for us."

The L-Mail.com website allows users to type and format a letter before it is printed and posted to anywhere in the world from the location the author specifies. The recent Austrian addition to the growing network of printing and posting locations gives users more even more choice in where their letters can be posted from.

L-Mail currently prints and posts letters from the following locations:
Australia - Melbourne
Australia - Sydney
Austria - Vienna
Canada - Braille Printing Station, BC
Canada - British Columbia
India - Chennai (Madras)
Ireland - Dublin
New Zealand - Braille Printing Station, Wellington
New Zealand - Wellington
Romania - Cluj
Slovenia - Ljubljana
South Africa - Cape Town
Spain - Madrid
United Kingdom - Audio and Braille Letters, Bristol
United Kingdom - Edinburgh
United Kingdom - Leicester
United States - New York

Further locations will be added over future weeks.

The cost of an L-Mail varies according to the destination of the letter. A three page letter to Vienna, Austria for example costs just 68p (Pounds Sterling).

The L-Mail web site can be found at www.l-mail.com

ABOUT REDMAIL

redmail was established in 2001 and has been developing since then from a newspaper delivery service to Austria’s leading private postal operator. Based on approximately 4.500 delivery men today redmail is able to offer its services all over Austria and even beyond by being part of the international network of TPG Post Group. redmail delivers all standard mail items which are open for competition and continuously expands its activities in line with the gradual liberalisation of Europe’s postal markets.

ABOUT QIQ

QiQ Limited, creators of L-Mail, was established in 1998. QiQ has developed web sites and provided consultancy services for royal institutions, charities, credit card firms, aviation authorities, security companies and businesses large and small around the globe. QiQ has also operated its own flagship web site Net4Nowt, a directory of Internet Service Providers, which has been classed as one of the top 100 web sites in the UK by Practical Internet magazine.

L-Mail is the latest web site to be developed and operated by QiQ Limited.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For more information on QiQ Limited or L-Mail visit www.qiq.co.uk and www.l-mail.com or contact:

Peter Harris
Tel: +44 (0) 845 070 3222
Fax: +44 (0)845 070 3222
Email: press@l-mail.com

For more information on Redmail visit www.redmail.at or contact:

Robert Rappold
>>>redmailTM Logistik und Zustellservice GmbH
Faradaygasse 6, A-1030 Wien
Tel.: +43/(0)1/795 00 47
Fax: +43/(0)1/795 00 33
Email: robert.rappold@redmail.at

The L-Mail Account has arrived!

26th February 2005

Today, we are pleased to announce the launch the L-Mail account. The L-Mail account allows individuals and businesses to send real letters from their PC faster than ever. You no longer have to enter your address or payment card details every time you send an L-Mail letter. You can concentrate on writing letters, not paying for them!

An L-Mail account gives you a number of extra benefits:
- View all the L-Mails you produce.
- View your account details online and make address changes.
- View details of all payments made to your account.
- See the L-Mail letter pricing table - it lets you see the cost of letters at a glance.
- Cancel any L-Mail that you produce and receive a full refund. Letters can not be cancelled once they are printed.
- Be amongst the first to learn of new additions to the service.

So, what are you waiting for! Pop along to http://www.l-mail.com/goto/account and get started now! L-Mail accounts are free. A minimum deposit of just £10.00 is required - enough to write over 30 letters to Australia!

To see a multi-media demonstration of the account, please visit http://www.l-mail.com/goto/demo (0.8MB) - remember to have your volume turned up.

L-Mail adds talking letters to its growing list of services

16th February 2005

L-Mail.com can now record and post audio letters on behalf of customers. Following the introduction of its Braille letter service in January,

L-Mail users can now send professionally recorded audio letters sent to recipients, on either cassette tape or CD, anywhere in the world.

Commenting on the new service, Peter Harris, Managing Director of L-Mail said, "We recently introduced the ability to send Braille letters for the benefit of individuals and businesses who wish to write to Braille readers around the world. Our new Audio Letter service opens up the potential to communicate with even more people with sight problems. With over two million people with sight problems in the UK alone the service has the potential to make a real difference."

Users wishing to send an Audio letter simply visit the L-Mail.com web site, type the sender and recipients details, enter the contents for the audio letter and make payment. L-Mail then arrange for the letter to be professionally recorded and posted within 24 hours of receipt of the order. L-Mail also offer an integration account which enables web developers to program their sites to automatically generate letters in a variety of formats and have them posted by L-Mail.

L-Mail was launched in September 2004 by Internet consultancy QiQ and already boasts hundreds of customers in many countries around the world. When used for sending traditional letters, L-Mail is frequently cheaper and faster than air mail. L-Mail currently print and post letters to any address from 16 locations and is continuing to expand its worldwide network. Audio letters are currently posted from the UK to any worldwide address. Braille letters are sent from the UK, Canada and New Zealand. Payment for letters can be made using credit or debit cards in five different currencies.

Further information on Braille and Audio letters can be found at www.l-mail.com/goto/braille

OFFICIAL: L-Mail is one cool site!

06th February 2005

We are pleased to report that L-Mail is to be listed by 'Cool SIte of the Day'.

The team at 'Cool Site of the Day' spend their time "surfing the web looking for the best web sites that demonstrated notable strides in innovation, content, and design and choosing one each day that that we deemed worthy of your perusal".

L-Mail is to be listed on 8 February 2005.

http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com

Popular Science Magazine checks out L-Mail

02nd February 2005

US magazine Popular Science has been checking out L-Mail as the following piece reveals...

Online Letter-Writing

At l-mail.com, you can type and address a letter online, and the company will print it out at one of several locations in the U.S., Europe and Australia and send it to the recipient just about anywhere on the planet, usually faster and for less money than if you sent it by post. You can even upload your own digital signature. —H2.0 Staff

L-Mail launches Braille printing and posting service

18th January 2005

L-Mail.com the online letter printing and posting service has today announced the launch of an online Braille translation service. The new service offers a 24 hour turnaround for the printing and posting of Braille letters to any location in the world.

Users can simply type their letter, select the BRAILLE PRINTING ONLY printing location make their payment and L-Mail will print and post the letter within 24 hours of receipt (Monday to Friday) encoded in Braille.

Peter Harris, Managing Director of QiQ, the company behind L-Mail.com said "With no need to open an account and all Braille letters being produced by professional Braille encoders, we believe we have a great service that is of use to both consumers and businesses. Whether an individual wishes to communicate with a blind friend or a business wishes to stay ahead of accessibility laws we believe this new cost effective service can help".

Craig Faris of 'The Braille Superstore', the professional Braille transcribers behind the North American providers of the service said "Everyone here is very excited about this new venture. By combining our Braille translation experience with L-Mail's user-friendly letter-sending website, it's never been easier for friends or co-workers to communicate with Braille readers. And perhaps best of all, you can use the very same site to send letters to anyone on your list - whether they happen to read regular print or Braille!".

L-Mail Braille letters can currently be sent via Canada for North America and Europe recipients and New Zealand for the Asia / Pacific region.

L-Mail recently launched an Integration Account which enables online systems to automate the production of standard letters. The Integration Account can also be used to generate Braille letters.

Braille letters, depending on location and exchange rate, cost around £5.00 each.

HOW TO SEND A BRAILLE LETTER

To send a Braille letter

1. Click the 'Write a Letter' menu option at the top of this page
2. Enter your details and the details of the recipient of the letter
3. Enter the body of your letter
4. Format your letter. Please remember this letter will be translated to Braille so formatting should be kept to a minimum.
5. Select a Braille Printing Station from the menu of printing locations.
6. Make payment

If requested, we will send a copy of your letter to you by email (non Braille). We will also send an email to notify you when the letter is on its way.

L-Mail featured in Broadband Advisor magazine

17th January 2005

L-Mail has been featured in this months Broadband Advisor Magazine. The article which includes an overview of the service and step by step instructions can be downloaded here - http://www.l-mail.com/scripts/downloads/article.pdf (613 KB).

L-Mail commences trials of Integration Account

04th January 2005

There are approximately 6 billion people on the planet, only 1 billion have Internet access but by integrating L-Mail into online systems businesses can communicate as easily to people with email as those without.

Internal testing of the L-Mail integration account is now nearing completion and L-Mail are now working with a number of businesses on testing the solution further before complete roll-out. If you are interested in assisting in the testing of the Integration Account, please email sales@l-mail.com

What is an L-Mail integration account? 

By providing online businesses with basic HTML code to integrate in to your online systems, an L-Mail integration account enables clients to generate a letter as easily as generating an automated email. The code enables users to specify the exact formatting of letters (including images for logos, letterheads and signatures) and also provides the ability to specify which L-Mail printing and posting location letters should be sent from. A real-time online control panel lets users monitor letter production and manage their L-Mail account.

What are the benefits 

- L-Mail handle letter sending logistics so businesses don't have to.
- International letters don't have to take weeks. An L-Mail takes a few days as we print and post our letters close to the recipient from a number of global locations daily.
- People read letters, they rarely get deleted as easily as an email.
- As more and more email addresses get incorrectly blacklisted postal correspondence could represent the ideal way to remain in touch with your customer.
- Which creates the stronger impression an email or a letter? Create a more personal and longer lasting impression, show your customer you care enough to write to them.
- An L-Mail integration account lets businesses send letters seamlessly and as easily as sending an automated email.

How could I use an L-Mail Integration account? 

There are hundreds of ways an L-Mail integration account could be put to work for your business or organisation. The following is a list of a just few examples.
- Send a personal letter welcoming new customers.
- Automate the sending of invoices to those clients who still prefer paper copies.
- Integrate the sending of all standard company letters whilst moving the need to manage outgoing mail.
- Automate the production of debt collection letters.
- Fed up with customers forgetting their appointment? Send appointment confirmations .
- Confirm your customers live where they say they live. Send activation codes by letter.
- Send your newsletters to customers or members without email.
- Send communication in Braille to customers with sight difficulties.

How much does an integration account cost? 

An L-Mail integration account is available at no charge. An initial £10 deposit is required to open the account. This is used as the opening balance from which the cost of your letters is deducted. Your account has to be kept in credit for letters to be produced and mailed. Reminders are sent when balances reach a predetermined limit. Letters are charged at the standard L-Mail rates. Discounts and credit accounts are provided for bulk users who should contact L-Mail for further details.

What support is available? 

The L-Mail team are happy to answer any questions relating to the integration of L-Mail in to systems. If programming assistance is required, this may be available but would be chargeable.

How can I get an L-Mail integration account? 

In the first instance, please email sales@l-mail.com or enrol at http://www.l-mail.com/goto/lia

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