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Government must decide quickly the future of a Post Office Network that is 'at the crossroads'

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

Postcomm, the independent regulator for postal services, today urged the Government to make the tough and overdue decisions needed to plan the future of the Post Office network. The Government must take into account the wider social role played by Post Offices in local communities as well as the imperative of establishing a sustainable, stable business.

Postcomm does not regulate Post Offices but it does monitor and research developments in the network of over 14,000 offices and provides independent advice to the Government in the form of an annual report which is published today, entitled “Post Offices at the crossroads”.

Research for Postcomm has provided clear evidence on why Post Offices urgently need a direction from the Government to secure their future. Postcomm believes that keeping things as they are is not an option.

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German express courier GO could target government-to-government mail in Hungary next year

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

German express courier GO could target the government-to-government (G2G) postal market in Hungary next year, Client Manager Peter Pesztericz told Interfax on Thursday.

“This [the G2G] postal market is a difficult niche to get into because of the heightened security requirements, but it is a market we could look at towards the middle of next year,” said Pesztericz.

G2G mail in Hungary is currently organized through a combination of government couriers and the regular postal service, Pesztericz said, adding that the former is expensive while the latter can be inefficient and is sometimes unreliable.

The G2G postal market in Hungary is relatively small, accounting for about 1 per cent of the total but can be lucrative given the special requirements that pertain in this sector, GO’s International Director Wolf-Rudiger May said.

GO is starting in the G2G market in Austria and Germany and already ships restricted documents for the EU from Brussels to Strasbourg along closed routes, according to May.

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Post Danmark is negotiating bid for Transportgruppen

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

Post Danmark A/S is conducting negotiations with the owners of Transport-gruppen A/S for the purchase of 51 per cent of the shares in the company. The shareholders in Transportgruppen have accepted to initiate discussions of substance on the basis of an indicative bid made by Post Danmark. For the time being, a so-called due diligence review will be undertaken, which will determine a possible purchase agreement between Post Danmark and Transportgruppen.
Post Danmark and Transportgruppen have agreed that they will not comment further on the negotiations until the outcome is known, which is expected in a month’s time.

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Empost appointed official courier service provider for Iranian Hospital

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

Empost, the UAE’s national courier company has entered into a strategic agreement with the Iranian Hospital (Iranian Red Crescent) in Dubai to provide Health Pack services for the benefit of the hospital and its patients. Empost will now be the official courier service provider for the Iranian Hospital. Under the agreement, Empost will open a dedicated counter within the hospital premises – at the hospital’s visa medical testing centre – to allow patients to avail reliable and cost-effective courier services that ensure timely delivery of their various medical documents. Manned by dedicated Empost staff, the office will handle all outbound business-to-business and business-to-consumer courier traffic such as blood test reports, laboratory test reports and other medical reports and documents.

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China delivers good growth for DHL despite tough competition

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

John Mullen recalls sitting in Sir Peter Abeles’ office in the twin TNT Towers in Sydney in the early 1980s, watching his chief executive brief a junior colleague on how the company was going to break into the Asian package delivery market.

“The strategic discussion was, `Just go and open it’. He asked, `What do you mean by that?’ and Abeles said: `Get on a plane and go and open Asia. It’s got to be the future’.” As head of the Asian division of DHL Express, the global package delivery service owned by German logistics giant Deutsche Post, the 51-year-old Australian has had to move fast to meet the 50 per cent annual increase in parcel volume China has delivered over the past five years. DHL Express now has about 6000 staff in China, having built up the business by exploiting existing relationships with foreign companies that were establishing Chinese manufacturing operations for the first time.

But as growth of the Chinese middle class transforms the economy from being simply a cheap exporter of manufactured goods to a consumer society in its own right, so is DHL’s business changing from just being a conduit for the import of components and export of finished goods.

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UPS pushes envelope on downtown service

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

Starting late last month, UPS began cutting nearly one hour off its morning delivery time for overnight mail guaranteed to arrive in downtown Cleveland by 10:30 a.m.

So instead of an average arrival time of 9:45 a.m., packages delivered by UPS are being signed for, on average, at 8:50 a.m., said Tom Nolte, director of sales for the Northern Ohio district of UPS.

The expedited delivery targets three downtown ZIP codes and comes with no additional guarantee, but with no additional cost either. It’s the first such initiative throughout the UPS system, Nolte said, and it’s designed to capture more office business from places like banks, law firms and insurance companies that rely heavily on overnight correspondence.

If it works in Cleveland, it could be rolled out in other cities. UPS has added 13 part-time delivery personnel and redeployed six of its signature brown trucks to allow for earlier deliveries. But the process really begins at company hubs in Louisville, Ky., and Rockford, Ill., where packages destined for downtown Cleveland are sorted and packed inside igloo-shaped containers that conform to the insides of UPS cargo planes.

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Two-man deliveries from one reliable source

Posted by | Oct 12, 2006 | |

An interview with Walter blackwood, tha Managing Director of Home Delivery Network Ltd. The interview discusses topics such as reasons for the formation of the service, speed of growth, methods of opeation, hours, tracking systems etc

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