Christian Salvesen faces takeover bid
Christian Salvesen faces takeover bid
Read MoreDay: May 16, 2003
La Poste pursues restructuring despite employee protests
La Poste, the French national postal services group, yesterday presented planned changes to its courier activity, which represents 59 per cent of its total revenue, despite ongoing industrial action by employees. The group is determined to modernise now in anticipation of the deregulation of European courier services, which is expected to be complete by 2009, and future competition from its counterparts, particularly in Germany and the Netherlands.
Read MoreUK Royal Mail accused of time 'fiddle'
A director of one of the UK’s largest mailing houses has accused Royal Mail of fiddling the times it receives mail for processing to make it appear to process mail more quickly. DPS direct mail technical director David Laybourne, who spends in the region of GBP15m a year with Royal Mail, says that, although mailing houses are contractually obliged to submit mail by 3pm every day, in practice Royal Mail has allowed customers to be as late as 6.30pm. “We do not understand why Royal Mail thinks it is acceptable to effectively lie about the day it receives mail. If we give it to Royal Mail at 3.30pm on May 14, it will now insist on amending a legal document to state that it actually received it on May 15. For some reason, a Royal Mail day now ends at 3pm.”
Read MoreFrench newspaper postal tariffs to rise
The postal charges for newspapers are to increase in France by 3.7 per cent from June 1. French newspaper publishers and the French post office, La Poste, are in talks to define the terms of their new agreement.
Read Moreedotech Acquires Cominformatic AG In £6.5million Deal
5 December 2002 Edotech has paid £6.5m to acquire cominformatic – A Swiss company involved in information outsourcing and Digital printing
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