PocketMail to equip classrooms for e-mail communication with Trucker Buddy Drivers
SAN JOSE, Calif., [Mar 1, 2004] – PocketMail Group Limited (ASX:PKT), a leading provider of value-priced world-wide mobile e-mail services, today announced that it will partner with Trucker Buddy to equip classrooms for e-mail communication with Trucker Buddy Drivers.
PocketMail CEO, David Marchant commented,” we know first hand from our own PocketMail customers how communication can enrich lives. We are both delighted and proud to be supporting Trucker Buddy, and facilitating that communication between kids and their Trucker Buddy.”
"Teachers and students love the Trucker Buddy program because it makes the school subjects come alive," said Ellen Voie, executive director of Trucker Buddy International. "The kids enjoy discussing the movements of their Trucker Buddy and discussing the places that he or she visits. We are grateful to supporters like PocketMail,” Ellen added.
Trucker Buddy matches classes of students with professional truck drivers. Every week, these drivers share news about their travels with their assigned classes, and provide a format for the enhancement of the grade school curriculum in reading, writing, geography, mathematics, social studies, and history. Since 1992, Trucker Buddy has helped educate over half million schoolchildren.
PocketMail is a low-cost, easy-to-use, mobile e-mail service that enables users to send and receive e-mails, fast and reliably, using the handheld PocketMail Composer and virtually any telephone, including cell-phones and payphones.
PocketMail mobile e-mail is also available via the Web and on WAP enabled cellular phones.
The PocketMail Composer can be purchased from leading retailers like Interstate Connections through their retail stores in Petro Truck Stops and TA TravelCenters of America or direct from PocketMail either on-line at www.pocketmail.com or by phone, toll-free, at 1-877-362-4543.
Both PocketMail and TRUCKER BUDDY will be exhibiting at the Mid-America Trucking Show at the Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center in Louisville, Kentucky, March 25-27 (PocketMail - Booth #2107, Trucker Buddy – Booth #6826)
About PocketMail
PocketMail Group Limited
PocketMail Group Limited (ASX:PKT) is a leading provider of value-priced, world-wide mobile e-mail services.
The company’s services are available locally throughout the United States, Canada, Western Europe and Australia, and internationally from every other country in the world.
PocketMail has operations in Sydney, Australia and San Jose, California.
For more information about PocketMail and its mobile e-mail services, please visit www.pocketmail.com
About Trucker Buddy
Trucker Buddy is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping educate and mentor the nation's schoolchildren via a pen-pal relationship between professional truck drivers and children in grades 2-8. Trucker Buddy matches classes of students with professional truck drivers.
Every week, these drivers share news about their travels with their assigned classes, and provide a format for the enhancement of the grade school curriculum in reading, writing, geography, mathematics, social studies, and history.
Since 1992, Trucker Buddy has helped educate over half million schoolchildren and introduced them to a group of caring, compassionate group of men and women, the nation's truck drivers.
For more information about Trucker Buddy, please visit www.truckerbuddy.org or call 1-800-MY-BUDDY.
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