Singapore Post is setting the stage to expand its presence in Indonesia.
It is linking up with Pos Indonesia on four initiatives: channelling services, remittances, logistics and direct mail.
The two parties signed a collaboration agreement to work together on Thursday.
In a joint statement, SingPost and Pos Indonesia said the collaboration is part of a strategy to leverage on each other’s strengths for growth and expansion.
Read MoreRoyal Mail expects to deliver a record breaking 100 million items ordered online this Christmas – 30 million more than the same period last year.
The increase in deliveries reflects a predicted online shopping boom this festive season, with an average of GBP4 million being spent across the country every hour in the run up to Christmas. IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) predicts GBP7 billion will be spent online in the ten weeks leading up to Christmas day.
Catherine Campbell, Head of Multi-channel Retail at Royal Mail, said: “Online retail continues to grow at a phenomenal rate and the predicted GBP7 billion spend represents a record 40 per cent increase on the GBP5 billion spent online in the same period in 2005.
Read MoreBelgian postal services company De Post/La Poste will close 277 offices in 2007 as part of its restructuring plan, Belgian daily De Standaard said on November 22, 2006.
De Post hopes to compensate the closure of offices in its loss-making postal network with the opening of 189 PostPunten sales counters at banks, supermarkets and news stand in 2007.
The company currently has 136 PostPunten counters. It plans to operate 1,300 offices and counters in 2007, but to reduce substantially the number of post offices to 650 from 1,249 by 2009.
De Post/La Poste will shut down the first 99 offices in February 2007, according to Lieve Van Overbeke, representative of the ACV trade union. The closures will affect 219 employees.
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Read MoreThe GBP 10m ad campaign Royal Mail ran this summer to tell the public it was changing the way it charges for mail delivery has resulted in 84% awareness of the new pricing structure, according to research from Postwatch, the body representing postal customers.
Ad agency Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO and its sister below-the-line agency Proximity London created the campaign, which ran around Pricing in Proportion’s introduction on August 21.
Independent telephone research conducted on Postwatch’s behalf showed 84% of those interviewed were aware of PIP. Postwatch, which has not been afraid to criticise Royal Mail in the past, said this showed the campaign was “successful”.
However, the research also revealed discontent among vulnerable customers with the new prices with 87% of the elderly, rural dwellers and those on low income believing they are now paying more for their post.
Haldane UK, one of Britain’s most advanced architectural joinery companies, is using Glenrothes-based PalletFORCE Member Glenhire Express for the palletised distribution of timber to its biggest customer.
The company’s partnership with Glenhire has been in place for over four years and Haldane is very happy with the service it receives.
Read MorePostwatch, the watchdog for postal services, today releases research on Pricing in Proportion (PiP), Royal Mail’s new pricing structure.
The key findings are:
” 84 per cent of those interviewed were aware of PiP,
” 87 per cent of vulnerable customers (the elderly, rural dwellers and those on low income) believe they are paying more for their post following PiP’s introduction.
” 12 per cent of over 1000 items posted were charged incorrect postage;
Commenting on the research, Millie Banerjee CBE, Chair of Postwatch, said:
“Our research shows that Royal Mail’s huge effort to raise awareness and understanding of PiP has been successful but is potentially being undermined by some post offices failing to advise and charge customers correctly.
Read MoreBritain’s leading business-to-business express delivery company has dropped an idea into the debate surrounding the potential survival of hundreds, possibly thousands, of rural post offices.
TNT Express Services UK & Ireland is proposing that village post offices broaden their range of services to act as a ‘drop-off point’ for all parcel companies where packages cannot be delivered because the intended residential recipients are unavailable. Currently, only Royal Mail and Parcelforce have access to the network of rural post offices.
Nigel Barton, Director of Operations for TNT Express Services, said the idea would provide multiple benefits for both rural postmasters, delivery companies, customers and the environment.
“At a time when the very existence of rural post offices is in question this would provide them with a source of supplementary revenue, increase the efficiency levels of delivery companies, provide convenient access for the collection of parcels and packages and reduce the number of vehicle movements required to try and re-deliver goods.”
The enlightened initiative comes at a time when the Government is considering a drastic reduction in the GBP150 million-a-year subsidy given to help support the rural post office network
Read MoreTony Blair once said about the Post Office “use it or lose it”, meaning that if people stopped going to post offices they would have to close. What does annoy me is the amount of people who go to a post office for their pension or benefits, then go to a supermarket to buy their goods, even though the post office sells the essentials.
Tony Blair got rid of the pension book and introduced Post Office Card Accounts, then said it was only until 2010. It must have cost millions setting it all up, just to throw it aside. He went on to say that after 2010 people must have their pensions and benefits put into their bank accounts. As 30 per cent of people do not have a bank account, and no way of owning one, how are they going to manage miles from a town?
So he must either keep the card account or allow a private firm to take it over.
I saw in the paper that he was doing his bit to help the environment by replacing his light bulbs with environmentally friendly ones and turning his heating down? Why was it on in August?
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