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Will Postal Strike Knock Poczta Polska Out?

Posted by | Nov 29, 2006 | |

Over 12,000 postmen going on strike spells trouble not only for millions of Poles looking forward to sending Christmas cards to their loved ones; the protest by employees of Poczta Polska has ruined the promotional strategy of a number of companies which rely on the state mail and has generally made life much harder for virtually all of its customers. At the same time, it uncovered the inefficiency of the state-controlled institution. Perhaps the strengthening competition will wake it from its slumber.

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Botswana: Improve Your Services Or Die – Botswana Post Told

Posted by | Nov 29, 2006 | |

The President of the Botswana Confederation of Commerce, Industry and Manpower (BOCCIM) Igbal Ebrahim, has advised Botswana Post to improve on their customer service or else they will not survive in the competitive market.

Ebrahim was speaking at the official launch of the Blue Jacket Square Business and Communication Centre on-behalf of the Minister of Communication, Science and Technology Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi.

Botswana Post recently opened a similar Business Centre in Ncojane, and two in Gaborone offering traditional postal services such as stamps, money and postal orders, letter and parcel mail in addition to Internet or email, photocopying, printing, scanning, laminating, typing and binding services.

In the speech, which Ebrahim read on behalf of Venson-Moitoi, she noted that in the 1800’s Francistown attracted mining companies due to the existence of gold, nickel and other minerals and mining still plays an important role in the city’s economy.

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Kagwe wants PCK to improve on efficiency

Posted by | Nov 29, 2006 | |

Information and Communications minister Mutahi Kagwe has advised Postal Corporation of Kenya(PCK) to improve on service delivery in order to cope with new market challenges.

The minister said money transfer service providers should improve on efficiency and maintain reliable and cost effective services.

Speaking yesterday during the launch of Posta pay services, Information and communication minister Mutahi Kagwe said that if local companies are to make a niche in the competitive market there is need for them to embrace the recent technologies at the market.

Kagwe said that its failure by the players in the sector which has led to the emergence of unscrupulous players at the sector who are giving a bad image of the sector as well as denying government million of shillings in revenue.

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Two senior appointments to drive DHL's Middle East growth

Posted by | Nov 28, 2006 | |

DHL today announced two key senior appointments to its Middle East and UAE teams – David Wild has become DHL Middle East’s Commercial Director and Janet Jweihan has been appointed in as General Manager for the UAE.

David Wild, who has served as DHL UAE’s General Manager for six years, has been appointed Area Commercial Director taking responsibility for 13 countries throughout the Middle East and Levant. The 24-year DHL veteran has been responsible for expanding DHL’s operations in the UAE and driving record revenue growth during his period. He will be based in Dubai.

Janet Jweihan, has been with DHL for nearly two decades, and will spearhead and strategise the company’s future expansion plans in the UAE as the country’s new General Manager. Succeeding Wild and bringing a wealth of experience, Jweihan was Country Manager of DHL in Kuwait for the past five years. She recently relocated to Dubai after leading her team in Kuwait to the title of Country of the Year award twice, establishing Kuwait as one of the DHL leader countries across the region in terms of operations’ growth.

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UPS tries to boost delivery to investors Parcels group has struggled to integrate acquisitions and justify its strategy since going public

Posted by | Nov 28, 2006 | |

There have been few better investments than the Dollars 100 of borrowed cash that Jim Casey, a 19-year-old entrepreneur, used to buy twotelephones and a fleet of bicycles in 1907.

Nearly a 100 years later, the messenger service he founded from a tiny Seattle office has grown into the world’s largest parcel courier, with a market capitalisation of Dollars 85bn and operations in more than 200 countries. But as United Parcel Service approaches its centenary, the group’s investment appeal is no longer so clear.

In the seven years since UPS went public, its shares have struggled to gain momentum, rising 30 per cent compared with a near tripling in those of FedEx, its biggest rival.

Asked at an investor conference this month whether UPS would have been better remaining private, Scott Davis, chief financial officer, replied: “No comment”.

Investors’ lukewarm attitude towards UPS, known as “Big Brown” after the colour of its trucks, in part reflects the sluggish growth of its mature domestic business, which has lost market share to FedEx. But the biggest source of caution is the group’s expansion beyond parcels into a broader range of supply chain services.

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Post office network ‘facing collapse’

Posted by | Nov 28, 2006 | |

Over a quarter of post offices have closed down since 2000 and the entire network faces collapse in the coming years unless the Government addresses fears over declining business and a possible loss of social welfare payments.

That’s according to the Irish Postmasters’ Union (IPU) which claims hundreds of members are earning less than the legal minimum wage, despite remaining open for up to 50 hours every week.

Already this year, 44 outlets have shut their doors for the last time.

There were 1,409 post offices and sub-post offices in the network on January 1, but that figure has dropped to 1,365 just 11 months later. The vast majority are sub-offices, with only 84 full post offices left in the country.

“We’ve argued very strongly, without success, with An Post and the Minister for Communications, that the whole post office network is in serious jeopardy unless somebody takes radical action soon,” IPU general secretary John Kane told the Irish Examiner.

He said dissatisfaction with remuneration is prompting postmasters and postmistresses to leave the service, while concern is also mounting about the future of Government business — such as social welfare payments — which is carried out in post offices.

“We have 35 people earning Euro8,000 a year, which is below the poverty line. There’s 300 or 400 people who are earning less than the legal minimum wage,” Mr Kane said.

The union has suggested part-time offices, opening on certain mornings or afternoons rather than the current five-and-a-half day week, but said that this idea has been ignored.

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DHL launches North America trade lane initiative

Posted by | Nov 28, 2006 | |

DHL today announced a new program that will streamline cross-border shipping in North America.

DHL’s North America Trade Lane initiative represents a new way of looking at the rapidly changing needs of cross-border shippers in North America. DHL developed the program to help customers better address the ever-changing needs of global commerce. To that end, DHL is adapting its networks, infrastructure and services to better match customers’ evolving supply chains. The program includes:

– enhancements to DHL’s facilities, fleet and other infrastructure, including new International Gateways and expanded “Border Operating Centers” (BOC);

– additional bilingual customer service representatives to help customers navigate the regulatory aspects of cross-border shipping; and

– additional representatives to help customers with cross-border shipping solutions.

Canada and Mexico together represent nearly USD300 billion a year in export business to the United States, and are the first- and third-largest trading partners for the U.S., respectively. The U.S. is also the leading trading partner for each country.

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