[DUG] PAF NZ Postcode Bonann$a

[Paul A Norman]

What about DUG / Borland NZ ~ DevCo doing the project, reasonible pricing
help NZ business (remeber thats what NZ used to be like?) and wonderfully
 promote Delphi / Borland?

On 31/05/06, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Its a good point Kurt, in two years time, if an organisation wants to
> receive bulk mail discount privileges they will have to have the post codes
> "correct"   - hence the min yearly $1000 fee to get the data to get them
> right (and effective loss of discount?). If not (2008 forward) they say your
> mail could go all over the country until it eventually gets to its
> destination. Alternatively they will be obliged to an expensive third party
> solution.
>
> I am very surprised that there was not a wider and more transparent public
> consultation over this radical move, still State Owned, —once would have
> been the stuff of Select  Committee hearings in the Hive.
>
> Heaps of businesses use the data to keep their mail outs and other
> information lined up with NZ Post areas by post code. The new changes are
> radical in many areas.
>
> NZ POST already has a bevy of selected developers who will be recommended
> to be sent out for a fee to "fix" people's existing databases.
>
> What used to happen was that they let any one download the updates to the
> database, they were csv from memory.
>
> Any database set up to process these could be used, and NZ POST also used
> to hand across the counter a free CDROM with an application on it.
>
> Hopefully some enterprising DUGers will be able to do something - pay the
> $3000 commercial yearly fee, obtain the data (with quarterly updates!) and
> make a reasonably priced  application for it - perhaps put COM in so that
> other applications can query it *indirectly*. (Under the proposed terns
> the data will need to be incorporated in such a way that only the
> "application" can access it - directly).
>
> Not for me to do unfortunately.
>
> But would help medium and small NZ businesses extremely.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On 31/05/06, kurt <kwilkin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Paul A Norman wrote:
> > > sorry - "(originaly done by : Critchlow Associates www.critchlow.co.nz
> > > <http://www.critchlow.co.nz>)"
> > >
> > >     Anyone within the organisation can access any part of the
> > data.  The
> > >     annual fee for the Base data license is *$1,000+GST*.
> >
> > Well, of course, you need to pay them to be allowed to
> > pay them to send mail.
> >
> > What did you think you get to pay them for free?
> >
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