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Ceska posta can be joint-stock company as of January 2008

Posted by | Sep 10, 2006 | |

Ceska posta could be transformed into a joint-stock company as of January 1, 2008 and the cabinet should then decide whether the state will still be a 100-percent owner of the postal services provider or whether the firm will be privatised, Interior and IT Minister Ivan Langer said Sunday.
Langer now wants to launch the project of Ceska posta transformation prepared by the IT Ministry, he told Czech Television.
Ceska posta is run by the IT Ministry, which the new government wants to phase out. Ministers should decide on a new integration of postal services but also telecommunications next week. Langer said the Transport Ministry or the Industry and Trade Ministry could be in charge of those areas.
Ceska posta employs more than 38,000 people in 3,400 branches at present and has annual sales at roughly CZK 18 billion. Profit hovered around CZK 670 million in 2005.

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India Post launches logistics service

Posted by | Sep 8, 2006 | |

India Post has launched “Logistics Post Service” between Coimbatore and Chennai on Thursday and plans to start the service between Tirupur and Tuticorin shortly. According to the Postmaster General, western region, K. V. Sundar Rajan, the Coimbatore-Chennai-Coimbatore service will also connect Tirupur, Erode, Villupuram, Tindivanam and Chengalpattu. Salem will be covered soon.
Mr. Rajan explained that cargo could be booked in these places apart from Coimbatore.
The weight of the cargo should be minimum 50 kg. The department offered free pick-up and delivery and loading and unloading of cargo. It also offered credit facility by Book-Now-Pay-Later scheme as value-added service.
Launching the overnight cargo service, he said that Logistic Post Centres were started at Red Fields Post Office (Trichy Road, Coimbatore), Tirupur RMS (Tirupur) and Karungalpalayam Post Office (Erode district). The service was already available from Chennai to Tiruchi, Chennai to Madurai and Chennai to Pondicherry.
The service was started between Hosur and Chennai last year and then extended to Bangalore. The response was encouraging especially in Hosur and Ambur.

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Mail service in rural areas

Posted by | Sep 8, 2006 | |

The Royal Mail has made significant strides in recent years, but faces many more testing times as it gears up for the challenge from private operators entering the postal market.

However the line has to be drawn somewhere in terms of levels of service, and the apparent idea that some rural customers will be deemed as too rural to receive deliveries is a step too far.

The Royal Mail is a lifeline service for those who live in the remotest parts of the country, and to abandon these customers because of where they live is unacceptable. One has to wonder who dreamed up a proposal which would see anyone living a 15-minute round trip off the beaten track jettisoned from the delivery round.

It is akin to the local police pulling the plug on rural crime or the power companies pulling down the electricity cables. Those who choose to live in remote areas understand it will restrict their access to services, but they should still get the basic package, and mail through the letterbox should be part of that.

The Government must ensure that the Royal Mail’s desire to make itself a lean organisation is not achieved at the expense of customers in the far-flung corners of Scotland.

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US FedEx way past 'go' with latest Monopoly

Posted by | Sep 8, 2006 | |

Talk about a game face.

The 71-year-old Monopoly board has its new one on. And with a page from its 2003 Harry Potter delivery triumph, FedEx Corp. will have 164,000 copies of “Monopoly: Here & Now” in 7,200 stores Wednesday for the long-anticipated unveiling Thursday.

“This is the first time in history we’ve had an on-shelf date for a game,” said Pat Riso, spokeswoman at Hasbro.

The board, designed this summer with the input of 3.6 million online voters, is shrouded in so much secrecy, the games are being shipped in black plastic with strict orders that it not be removed until the games are on store shelves.

In the world of the supply chain, the project is a perfect example of just-in-time logistics.

FedEx is shipping the order entirely through its ground network, the same crew that got 250,000 Internet orders of “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” to homes for Saturday delivery on June 21, 2003.

It will take about 5,500 employees and contractors. On delivery day, more than 5,000 FedEx Ground drivers will have the Monopoly games in the back of their trucks.

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DHL freezes the way we live now.

Posted by | Sep 8, 2006 | |

The NHS has no doubt made an excellent choice in awarding a 10-year, Pounds 1.6bn contract to DHL to handle its purchasing and delivery of everything from catheters to paper clips.

DHL is, of course, a fearless logistics group that delivers to Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea. Only problem is that it sometimes refuses to venture into scarier places such as . . . east London.

Not-so-intrepid DHL Express admits it recently decided against sending its vans to Canning Town, which lies within walking distance of Canary Wharf’s gleaming towers. What, one wonders, is the current danger – kids back from summer hols or home games at nearby West Ham?

Fortunately the NHS contract has gone to a separate division – DHL Logistics. Let’s hope it can pluck up courage to bring supplies to hospitals and GP surgeries in the ‘hood.

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U.S. Fedex launches single toll-free service number in China

Posted by | Sep 7, 2006 | |

FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp. and the world’s largest express transportation company, today announced the launch of a new and dedicated single toll-free customer service hotline (800 988 1888) in China and has extended the service to 24 hours a day and 6 days a week, in an effort to provide the best customer experience in the country.

Prior to the launch of the single toll-free service number in China, FedEx has been operating three customer centers in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, since 1998, with three different toll-free service numbers covering Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern China. Now the nationwide service number will enable customers, especially mobile office workers, to dial one number whenever and wherever they are, to reach local FedEx customer centers for such services as package delivery, tracking and tracing, payments, inquires and feedbacks. In addition, FedEx has also launched a separate service hotline (400 886 1888) for mobile phone users.

The new toll-free service number will be operated 24 hours a day and 6 days a week, which is manned by 200 FedEx customer service representatives from the three customer centers in China. When dialing the number, customers can also select the automatic voice response system for basic inquiries. This self-service voice system will be operated 24 hours per day.

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Carvell steps up to stop the slide

Posted by | Sep 7, 2006 | |

Paul Carvell became CEO at Business Direct Group on Monday, relinquishing the role of non-executive chairman which he has held for several weeks.

Carvell has agreed “a package designed to incentivise me to get the business back into shape”. Carvell was granted options over 3.25 million ordinary 5p shares with an exercise price of 17p, most of which are exercisable after 12 months.

AIM-listed Business Direct’s share price more than halved in late 2005 and has failed to recover, although the firm has just reached break-even on a monthly basis. Market capitalisation last week was (pounds sterling)6.03m.

Carvell tells MT he was looking at private equity opportunities. “I’ve enjoyed the private equity approach – but I am so pleased to get back and get stuck in again,” he says. And he was immediately leading from the front. On Monday, the firm’s home page featured an invitation for those interested to call him “to discuss how we can help your business”. A priority is to develop a new three-year plan; he has half a dozen additional business areas that he wants to look at, he says.

Carvell says Business Direct gets most of its revenue from courier services: technical; two-man; and same-day. These generate an annualised (pounds sterling)12m turnover and that can expand greatly says Carvell, who notes that he took Business Post’s UKToday to a highly profitable, (pounds sterling)15m turnover from a standing start.

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