Poste Italiane has been given 180 days to apply VAT to its postal services within individual mail contracts.
Poste Italiane made net profits of more than one billion euros last year, despite the "weak" global economic environment.
Russian Post is launching a new hybrid mail service later this year, as part of its joint modernisation project with Poste Italiane.
Japanese global transport and logistics company Nippon Express has signed a deal to buy all shares of Italian logistics firm Franco Vago.
The Philippine Postal Corporation - PhlPost - has launched a new international money transfer service in partnership with Poste Italiane.
Mail volumes have fallen by 18% in the world's 17 major markets since 2006, most rapidly in the UK, Italy, Spain and North America.
The European Commission has given the green light to Poste Italiane to receive EUR 1.56bn in compensation from the Italian government to support its universal postal serv...
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