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NZ Post delivers a NZD20 fee

Posted by | Oct 20, 2006 | |

New Zealand Post is to start charging people NZD20 to have their mail redirected and NZD5 to have it held while they are away from home.
The present redirection service for residential customers is free for the first two months, with a tiered cost structure lasting four months, six months or one year.
From November 1, residential customers will have to pay NZD20 for the first two months for the redirection service.
The service will still cost NZD30 for four months, NZD45 for six months but has dropped from NZD100 to NZD85 for one year.
NZ Post marketing general manager Graham Smith said redirecting mail was expensive and labour- intensive. Business customers already paid for a permanent redirection and that price would not change. The hold service would now cost businesses NZD10 a week.

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Velocity News, October 2006

Posted by | Oct 20, 2006 | |

TNT in doorstep delivery revolution.
Ziegler takes the Eezehaul route.
Expressworld couriers present at birth.
Seabourne’s Dutch connections.
Promotions spot on-time.

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Philippine Airlines (PAL) says it is considering acquiring at least eight wide-bodied aircraft

Posted by | Oct 20, 2006 | |

Philippine Airlines (PAL) says it is considering acquiring at least eight wide-bodied aircraft expand its routes to the United States and Canada and to return to Europe after an absence of about a decade. The airline may spend up to USD 200 million for each aircraft to be acquired, Chairman Lucio Tan said.

PAL President, Jaime Bautista, said they had not yet decided whether to order the additional aircraft from Airbus or Boeing. “The planes will arrive between 2008 and 2009. We’re looking at flying to California and we’re also (looking at reviving flights) to Europe,” Bautista said. The airline is in the final phase of talks with three European export credit agencies to secure a loan of up to USD 600 million to fund its re-fleeting programme. This expansion is on top of the 20 narrow-bodied Airbus planes that PAL is set to acquire, starting this year, for more than USD 840 million.PAL has already unveiled the first of its A319s, which it plans to use for domestic and regional flights. www.philippineairlines.com

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British Airways has launched a competition for new longhaul aircraft by issuing tender documents to aircraft and engine manufacturers.

Posted by | Oct 20, 2006 | |

Airbus and Boeing, and engine manufacturers, Engine Alliance, General Electric and Rolls Royce plus other key component suppliers, have been invited to bid. British Airways’ CEO, Willie Walsh, said: “For the past four years, we have grown capacity by using our aircraft more efficiently.

In order to continue to grow our longhaul business we now need additional longhaul aircraft. We remain committed to generating an economic return for our shareholders. Launching the competition highlights the need for us to address our GBP 2.1 billion pension deficit.

With a combination of firm orders and options, we are planning for both growth and fleet replacement into the next decade. Environmental performance will be one of the key criteria in our choice ensuring greater fuel efficiency, reduced noise and emissions.”

Walsh said that the first aircraft to be replaced are the 20 B747s and 14 B767s, which will be around 25 years old. Subject to the outcome of the RFP competition, orders are expected to be placed during next year. Aircraft being considered for the airline’s longhaul fleet are the A330, A350, A380 and B787, B777 and B747-8. www.ba.com

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GO! expands its European network to Switzerland

Posted by | Oct 20, 2006 | |

Swiss express carrier NES has joined the GO! European network and will represent the brand throughout the Alpine country as GO! Switzerland.

The German express and logistics group, whose full name is GO! General Overnight Service GmbH, said it would be using Niederbipp-based NES’s 160 vehicles, 10 depots nationwide and 50 employees to transport national and interantional parcels.

“As one of the leading and most important express services, NES AG is an ideal partner for us,” explained Ralf-Hans Dierks, CEO of GO! Germany.

“Using the same high quality standards and product range, we will expand the national and European express and document despatch and be able to multiply our parcel volume.”

Dierk said Switzerland bore “enormous potential” for GO! and its European network and that the company was planning to expand further its international product range.

“We will not only extend our European system, but also strengthen our position among the leaders on the express market”, he added.

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Catalogues fuel online shopping boom

Posted by | Oct 19, 2006 | |

The popularity of catalogues is fuelling an online shopping boom across the UK with consumers spending an average of GBP609 each on goods online this year so far, Royal Mail research revealed today.

Three-fifths (61 per cent) of UK consumers have consulted a catalogue before making online purchases and three in four shoppers (83 per cent) regularly use catalogues before buying online.

The most popular online items according to the 4,000 adults surveyed are music products and downloadable tracks (71 per cent), followed by gifts (69 per cent) and electrical goods (62 per cent).

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Shanghai overtakes Tokyo as top city for CPS bookings, Unisys Says

Posted by | Oct 19, 2006 | |

Shanghai, South China’s major air logistics hub, moved slightly ahead of Tokyo in September as the city from which forwarders are making the most air cargo bookings on Unisys-operated Cargo Portal Services (CPS). Tokyo forwarders had previously led as early adopters of CPS, so this change demonstrates that their performance can be replicated elsewhere.

The 5 top cities generating the most CPS air cargo bookings after Shanghai were Tokyo, Toronto, Hong Kong, Beijing and Los Angeles. Unisys had reported on Tokyo’s previous top position in April 2006 (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/news_a_events/04288654.htm).

“These results demonstrate the value of a global multi-carrier booking portal like CPS and the willingness of forwarders, especially in Asia and North America, to make bookings electronically,” said Christopher Shawdon, vice president and partner, Logistics Solutions at Unisys.

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Goodbye, stamp vending machines: Post office phasing out aging equipment.

Posted by | Oct 19, 2006 | |

Postage stamps can be purchased by mail, at the supermarket, even from many bank cash machines. But there’s one place you won’t be able to get them in a few years – vending machines at the post office.

The U.S. Postal Service plans to eliminate its 23,000 vending machines by 2010, the agency said in a recent internal memo.

The vending machines aren’t the only changes that are under way. The postal service is also removing many of those freestanding blue mailboxes where people can drop letters.

Postal spokeswoman Yvonne Yoerger yesterday confirmed the vending machine decision, first reported by Linn’s Stamp News.

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