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To: WR who wrote (29035)	2/26/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

That's what I was referring to when I was discussing how the USPS was updating their systems to be able to compete with FDX. There is a lot of money to be made in the overnight and delivery parcel business since the Internet will likely place a lot of retailing operations under extreme margin pressures. There is only one middle man between the manufacturer/vendor and the customer. And that would be the people who move product from point A to point B. To manage that type of economy, manufacturers will need to have the best just in time IT and process systems available as inventory buffer held by retailers are contracted in the name of profitability. So USPS strategy is to fight fire with fire. Between now and 2002, USPS will spend $5.9 billion on IT improvements to get the mail sorted and delivered faster than ever: robotic package sorters, increased use of bar codes, upgraded mail-forwarding systems. That's in addition to the massive intranet project intended to speed up mail delivery and improve customer service by keeping the organization's mammoth workforce better informed and better managed. Regards, Ron

To: WR who wrote (29035)	2/27/1999 8:57:00 PM
From: WR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31646

Would this be important??? WR TPI Consultants Assisted AT&T in Sourcing Relationships with IBM and CSC TPI consultants assisted AT&T in negotiating their recent $4 billion transaction with IBM in December and most recently assisted AT&T with their $300 million sourcing transaction with CSC. Peter Iannone led TPI's efforts, while Kathy Welch and Bhavneet Bajaj assisted AT&T in evaluating the sourcing of their applications development and maintenance efforts. Joe Frampus and Harvey Gluckman played a key role in evaluating the outsourcing of AT&T's data center activities to IBM. AT&T will acquire IBM's Global Network business for $5 billion in cash and the two companies entered into outsourcing contracts with each other. The acquisition boosts AT&T's strategy to rapidly increase the company's revenue, especially at its fast-growing networking services unit, AT&T Solutions. IBM will outsource a significant portion of its global networking needs to AT&T. The transactions could represent $2.5 billion in additional revenue to AT&T in the first full year of operation. AT&T will outsource certain applications processing and data center management operations to IBM. Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) has signed a ten-year contract with AT&T to outsource the management of a portfolio of about 50 systems applications that support AT&T Consumer Services. TPI Consultants Peter Iannone, Kathy Welch and Bhavneet Bajaj were a key part of the AT&T negotiation team. The contract, which becomes effective on March 6, 1999, is for a ten-year period. Outsourcing these Consumer Services applications allows AT&T to significantly reduce costs and refocus internal I/T resources on more critical tasks while giving AT&T future access to the technical skills of CSC. tekptnr.com