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Correos (Spain) cooperates in the collection of used mobiles campaign

Posted by | Dec 25, 2006 | |

Correos is one of the companies cooperating in the “Dona tu móvil” (literally “Donate your mobile”) campaign, organised by the Red Cross and the Entreculturas Foundation, which aims to obtain funds through the collection of used mobile phones to then use the funds for educational, development and integration projects. The campaign, which has just started, will last for an unlimited period.
In 400 of its offices, including all the main provincial offices, Correos will provide a container box for customers and users to leave the mobile phones they no longer use in. They will be placed in a prominent place on the office counter, alongisde the envelope-bags for those wishing to cooperate to pick up and insert their mobile phones into them; once they are in the envelope, they can be left it in any postbox or handed in in the post offices themselves.
This act of solidarity fits in perfectly with the Correos commercial policy, the aim of which is to convert post offices into multi-service centres, where the public can go to get more of their activities sorted out in less time. Correos adds this service to the wide range of products and services that it already offers its customers and users, alongside its traditional postal services.

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Royal Mail eyes Sainsbury chairman

Posted by | Dec 24, 2006 | |

The chairman of J Sainsbury, Britain’s second-biggest food retailer, has been approached to become deputy chairman of Royal Mail, making him a potential successor to Allan Leighton as head of the postal group.
Philip Hampton is one of three candidates to have been shortlisted for the job and a series of interviews have taken place with the headhunter appointed to handle the search. Bob Wigley, chairman of Merrill Lynch Europe and a non-executive director of Royal Mail, has also been approached but it appears he is reluctant to take on the post.

Hampton is seen as a strong candidate. As well as chairing Sainsbury he also been finance director at Lloyds TSB and BT. Royal Mail is keen to find a deputy chairman who can be groomed to succeed Leighton when he steps down in March 2008.
However, the search has been made more difficult because none of the candidates wants to move forward until the government has decided whether it is going to back a financial restructuring at Royal Mail and support issuing 20% of its equity, which is 100% held by government, to staff.

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Empost to install AED 6 mn advanced IT communications system

Posted by | Dec 24, 2006 | |

Empost, the UAE’s national courier company is investing AED 6 million in installing an advanced IT communications system in it’s over 425-strong fleet of delivery vans and motorcycles as part of its ongoing initiatives to improve operational efficiency and customer services.
Under the communications upgrade plan, Empost courier vehicles will be equipped with the latest in wireless communication technologies such as the mobile data service, GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), the satellite-based navigation system, GPS (Global Positioning System), messaging and tracking systems.
The advanced system provided by Cisco Systems updates itself automatically – the information available needs to be entered once, thereafter it will be updated automatically from time to time.
The system will also provide a billing program that will make it easier to the customer to pay everything online.

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France's La Poste to record EUR 700m profit for 2006

Posted by | Dec 22, 2006 | |

French national postal operator La Poste said yesterday it expected to record a EUR 700 million net profit in 2006, up by about 25% on the figure of EUR 557 million for 2005.

The 2006 operating margin (operating profit on sales revenue) will be around 3.5%, said the group in a statement. La Poste noted that its balance sheet would be hit by an exceptional reform-linked contribution of EUR 2 billion to the national pension financing system at the end of this year.

Internal investment this year on new hubs in Lorraine and Val de Loire and the modernisation of the postal network (1100 offices) reached EUR 1.2 billion, up from EUR 950 million in 2005.

The group spent a further EUR 550 million on acquisitions for its European express network, an increased presence in publishing ventures by its Courrier mail arm and Banque Postale’s move to take over 100% of its asset management activities.

For 2007, La Poste expects to increase turnover by 3%, excluding external revenue growth, and to improve its operating profit margin to 5.8% thanks to cost controls and reform of its pension financing.

Its mail revenues are budgeted to rise 1% in spite of falling volumes, while parcels and express revenues are expected to rise 7% while the Banque Postale aims for 4% growth.

La Poste will invest about EUR 1.4 billion next year, with 11 new hubs and sorting centres planned as well as the renovation of a further 1000 branches.

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Austrian Post completes acquisition of Germany's trans-o-flex

Posted by | Dec 22, 2006 | |

Austrian Post has officially completed the acquisition of a 74.9% majority holding in German express parcels company trans-o-flex.

The Austrian postal group announced that the existing trans-o-flex management headed by Klaus J. Heinz would remain in place. Thomas Doll, head of corporate controlling at Austrian Post, will also take on the role of trans-o-flex financial director.

Austrian Post plans to use trans-o-flex, and its European partner network Eurodis, as its main platform to develop its European B2B parcels distribution business.

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Tis a jolly good season for NZ Post

Posted by | Dec 22, 2006 | |

Santa’s sack is groaning with a record number of presents flying around the country for the delivery on Sunday night.

Parcel deliveries at New Zealand Post are up by 13 per cent on last year as the Christmas season enters overdrive.

Monday had the biggest volume of packages for the year, at about 160,000 out of 5.3 million mail deliveries.

“It’s an exceedingly significant increase,” New Zealand Post spokesman Richard McLean said. Mail volumes this year had hit record highs in some towns compared with previous Christmas periods, and nobody was reporting a decline in mail traffic.

Even after adding extra delivery trucks between Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand Post’s resources were stretched, he said.

“The system is at absolutely full capacity at the moment.”

Posties were delivering well over five million pieces of mail each day. “This week is one of those weeks where the mail just keeps flowing and flowing.”

The higher-than-normal volumes were probably the result of Christmas shoppers filling stockings via the Internet, Mr McLean said.

“Even apart from the Trade Me phenomenon, everyone is getting into the online shopping thing, and it all has to be transported somehow.”

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Christmas cards boost bottom line for UK businesses

Posted by | Dec 22, 2006 | |

Small and medium sized businesses up and down the country are set to increase their New Year profits by GBP257 million as a result of sending their customers Christmas Cards over the festive season.

According to the Royal Mail research launched today, bottom line profits of businesses are set to increase by 2.1 per cent as a result of sending Christmas card mailers – a return on investment of 3,213 per cent – with the average company spending just GBP200.

Businesses are realising the value of sending Christmas cards, with a third convinced they help to build and maintain customer relationships, and six in ten believing that they give them a competitive edge.

Alex Batchelor, Royal Mail’s Marketing Director, said: “This research shows that as a sales and marketing tool, the humble Christmas card provides a huge return on investment.

Royal Mail’s festive postbag this year of two billion items includes 750 million Christmas cards.

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