Boston, Mass. - April 17, 2000 - Escher Group, provider of the world's leading e-commerce solutions to the postal industry, today announced its participation as a sponsor of "The World e-Post Summit", an international e-business forum focused on strengthening the position of the world's postal services. The conference will take place at The Cafe Royal in London on April 17 and 18, 2000. This unique two-day event promises to reveal exclusive previews of the latest postal e-business initiatives and will examine strategies for staying competitive in the Internet economy.

As part of this event, Escher staff will deliver a paper entitled "Building on your core competencies". It will outline the opportunities presented by the current state of the market and will explain how postal authorities are able to extend their core business capabilities to the Internet, providing a more complete service offering with the same trust and security that their customers have depended on for years.

Escher Group is committed to providing the postal industry with the latest in e-commerce solutions and advanced technologies. Escher's flagship XML-messaging product, Riposte®, is currently used in 12 countries worldwide to automate mail services and other customer services such as retail, agency, and banking transactions. Building on the success of Riposte, Escher has introduced RiposteDispatch™, an end-to-end solution for the definition, sale and delivery of Internet fulfillment, postage and ticketing services.

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