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SICPA (acronym for the former name Société Industrielle et Commerciale de Produits Alimentaires, no longer in use) is a Swiss company that provides security inks for currencies and sensitive documents, [2] including identity documents, passports, transport and lottery tickets.
By 1866 the Swiss Post decided to buy their own post wagons. [ 65 ] [ 54 ] In later years wagons with three and four axles were purchased. [ 65 ] [ 54 ] The wagons with 4 axles were equipped with compartments in which the mail was sorted [ 65 ] and by 1965, over sixty postal train lines had come into service. [ 40 ]
RFID is synonymous with track-and-trace solutions, and has a critical role to play in supply chains. RFID is a code-carrying technology, and can be used in place of a barcode to enable non-line of sight-reading. Deployment of RFID was earlier inhibited by cost limitations but the usage is now increasing.
The Swiss government has multiple reasons for using electronic voting. It can reduce costs and increase the speed of counting ballots. Swiss living aboard are able to vote more reliably. It could also help raise voter turnout (declining since the 1970s [3]) since voting over the internet is considered by most to be more convenient. [4]
PTT logo from 1988 Swiss PTT logos of 1938 (bottom) and 1988 (top). PTT (German: Schweizerische Post-, Telephon- und Telegraphen-Betriebe, French: Postes, télégraphes et téléphones, Italian: Poste, telegrafi e telefoni) was the postal, telegraph, and telephone agency of Switzerland, from 1928 to 1998.
By obligation of Swiss archival law, the Swiss Post Ltd. and the Swisscom Ltd., being the successors of the PTT, are bound to preserve these archival holdings and make them accessible to the public. The PTT Archive is situated in Köniz near Bern and is classified as an object of national interest in the Swiss Inventory of Cultural Assets. [2]
Postfinance Ltd is wholly owned by Swiss Post. [5] Postfinance makes an important contribution to Swiss Post's total operating income. Total assets amounted to around CHF 102 billion at the end of 2023, while net profit for the full year 2023 was around CHF 164 million. In 2023, Postfinance served around 2.5 million people and had the ...
Waldenburg railway - reopened in December 2022 after a 19-month conversion from 750 mm track gauge to ... There are trams operating on nine systems in seven Swiss ...