Postal Service Cutting Off Wireless Access

Communications Today, March 27, 2002

Even an operation with a customer base as large as the U.S. Postal Service's isn't succeeding with wireless data offerings. The Postal Service on April 7 will stop offering wireless access to its services and data, a feature it launched in January this year.

"This pilot effort did not find the support among our customers to make it a viable offering," the Postal Service announced.

The agency added to its online offerings wireless application that let users track and confirm the status of shipments, identify zip codes for addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico and locate post offices.

The service was accessible to users with Web-enabled mobile phones and PDAs equipped with Neomar or Go.Web browsers. >TK Openwave Systems [OPWV]: Telemar [TNE]: