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38 Annual Geschäftsbericht Report | Innovative 2006
Our most innovative projects
WebStamp: create your own stamps
online
“Click – print – send” – it’s that easy for
customers to design and print stamps
online themselves. In November 2006, six
months after WebStamp was launched, a
customer produced the millionth digital
stamp. With its proprietary product, Web-
Stamp, PostMail is right on the mark in
terms of gauging current needs. Customers
can create a personal stamp using a
photo, and small-business customers can
create their own company stamp. They
can pay with their Postcard or credit card,
without any surcharge. WebStamp was
developed from a software-based
franking solution launched in 2004 for
business customers. The digital stamp will
undergo further development in 2007.
In order to take greater account of the
needs of small and mid-sized companies,
letters to other countries and parcels
mailed within Switzerland can also be
franked online. Address data can be
imported directly into the franking solution.
A simple program can be used
to optimize the pictures on the stamp.
www.postmail.ch/WebStamp
IncaMail:
registered electronic letters
Nowadays, most documents are created
and mailed electronically. It is practical
and saves money. However, to ensure that
a letter is received by the right person, it
must be printed out and sent by registered
post. This is known as a media discontinuity.
With IncaMail, PostMail now
documents the entire course of an electronic
item. Using the Public Key Infrastructure
(PKI) coding procedure, IncaMail
meets all the requirements that a “regular”
registered letter has to satisfy. The
content of the message is not visible to
anyone but the addressee, as it is coded.
The sender signs the content, the transmission
of the message is documented,
and the recipient confirms receipt by signing
before the e-mail is opened. This is
sent to the sender and serves to prove
that the item was mailed.
As a requirement for IncaMail, the sender
and the recipient must obtain a recognized
electronic certificate for the signature
and coding from PostMail. The PKI
solution with certificates was developed
by the SwissSign AG subsidiary, which
was authorized in 2006 to issue qualified
electronic certificates that conform to the
Federal Act on Electronic Signatures
(ZertES). PostMail has thus taken an important
step forward in implementing its
e-business strategy. It is now in a position
to expand its offering in the field of secure
signatures and coding of electronic
data and documents.
www.incamail.ch
The term “Inca” stands for:
I Integrity: the content remains unchanged;
N Non-repudiability: dispatch and receipt cannot be
contested;
C Confidentiality: only the recipient can read the
message;
A Authenticity: the participants are identified.
“ Paperless account
management also benefits
the environment.”
Manuel Rohrer
Product manager at PostFinance, Berne