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DHL announces salesperson of second quarter for 2006

Posted by | Jul 30, 2006 | |

DHL Jordan, the country’s leading express logistics provider, recently awarded Mohamed Haylouz the ‘salesperson of the second quarter’ title for 2006. A recognition that makes him eligible to win the ‘salesperson of the year’ award granted at the end of the year.

“Mohamed, who joined DHL in 2000 as a courier, has since exhibited exemplary dedication to quality service and excellence which has earned him various promotions leading to his last as Business Development Manager at DHL Jordan, “ said Nael Attiyat, Country Commercial Manager, DHL Jordan

DHL Jordan, the country’s leading express logistics provider, recently awarded Mohamed Haylouz the ‘salesperson of the second quarter’ title for 2006. A recognition that makes him eligible to win the ‘salesperson of the year’ award granted at the end of the year.

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Ethiopian Postal Service Agency Launches New Services

Posted by | Jul 29, 2006 | |

The Ethiopian Postal Service Agency said it had launched new services and installed additional post boxes during the just-ended budget year.

The Agency had earned 8.8 million birr gross profit from various activities undertaken during the reported period.

Public Relations Service and Corporate Planning Department heads with the Agency, Eshetu Geletu and Seid Kedir respectively told ENA that the Agency has been introducing newly launched services to the public.

They said the Agency has been providing money transfer services through fax messages at 14 stations set up in Addis Ababa, Bahir Dar, Jimma, Asella, Dessie, Semera, Debre Markos, Gondar, Mettu, Gambella, Assossa, Arba Minch, Robe Bale and Hossaena towns.

The Agency has also begun selling mobile and voucher cards at 11 post offices in Addis Ababa city.

Some 41 Emergency Message Service (EMS) stations enabling to transmit messages through the Internet have been opened in the country, they said.

The Agency secured the profit from money transfer and Emergency Message Service (EMS), among others.

They said 13,210 additional private post boxes had been installed in the just ended budget year.

The officials said there are over 139,000 post boxes at 887 service-rendering stations in the country including the newly installed ones during the just-ended budget year.

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Japan Post's operations to be expanded after privatization

Posted by | Jul 29, 2006 | |

A new bank and insurance company, to be created through Japan’s postal privatization next year, will try to expand their operations to match those of their private-sector rivals, informed sources said Friday.

According to the outlines of their business plans, Yucho (postal savings) Bank and Kampo Life Insurance will eliminate or raise the 10 million yen ceiling per depositor and policyholder currently set for money to be put into postal savings and postal life insurance, the sources said.

The bank will also seek to extend loans to individuals in addition to small and midsize enterprises, and the insurance firm plans to start offering medical insurance products, the sources said.

Yucho’s and Kampo’s assets will total around 226 trillion yen and 114 trillion yen, respectively, surpassing those of the two leading companies in the industries — Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Nippon Life Insurance Co., the sources said.

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USPS pushes mail drives to direct bosses

Posted by | Jul 28, 2006 | |

The US Postal Service (USPS) is targeting the direct marketing industry in campaign which aims to give marketers the hard facts about direct mail effectiveness.

The company, which has traditionally concentrated its efforts on ad agencies and major advertisers, is to mail 200,000 marketers to help them to sell direct marketing to clients.

The initiative uses the strapline ‘Out-smart the office’, along with a smiling caricature of an office worker. Inside, the character offers a knowing wink, alongside the copy: ‘Here at the USPS we understand the struggles you go through, defending the media channel that’s smart, innovative and hardworking and yet often overlooked.’

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9 European Postal Service Providers Call for Caution in the 2009 Postal Service

Posted by | Jul 28, 2006 | |

Following the publication of the PWC study on the “Impact on Universal Service of the Full Market Accomplishment of the Postal Internal Market in 2009”, the postal operators of Belgium, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Luxembourg, Poland and Spain, which account for over 50% of the Community population, express their concern about the study outcomes and plead the European Commission for a balanced approach when drawing up future postal legislation. At the beginning of this month of July, the European Commission published a study undertaken at its request by PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in order to assess, in each member State, the impact on the universal postal provision of a full liberalisation in 2009. As stated by the postal Directive 2002/39/EC, based on the conclusions of this study, the Commission shall submit by 31 December 2006 “a report to the European Parliament and the Council accompanied by a proposal confirming, if appropriate, the date of 2009 for the full accomplishment of the postal internal market or determining any other step in the light of the study’s conclusions”.

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Pay and working practices deal ends postal strike threat

Posted by | Jul 28, 2006 | |

The threat of the first national postal strike in a decade was lifted yesterday after agreement was reached between Royal Mail and the Communications Workers’ Union over the 2006 pay rise.

The union accepted the 2.9 per cent rise imposed by the management in May with additional cash and pledges about job security and pension rights.

In return, it lifted the threat of a strike ballot and made concessions on working practices that will help Royal Mail to compete in the increasingly tough postal services market.

However, there is still no agreement on the scheme to hand 20 per cent of Royal Mail shares to staff through an employee trust. Allan Leighton, group chairman, sees giving the staff a stake in the business as essential to win their support for restructuring and modernisation that will involve changes in working practices and the loss of jobs.

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Takeaway food leaflets: We don't want them!

Posted by | Jul 28, 2006 | |

Peter Vincent has had enough of pizzas. He’s had his fill of Indian takeaways, too, and when it comes to kebabs, he’d really rather not.

He explained: “Leaflets advertising all these things come pouring through my letterbox all the time, and it’s getting out of hand. How many pizzas can the public of Tunbridge Wells eat?”

Mr Vincent, 61, of Mounfield Road, Tunbridge Wells, never eats pizza anyway, and his wife, Elisabeth, is allergic to them. He said: “We’re registered to stop junk mail and phone calls, but how do we stop leafletters stuffing things through our letterboxes? It’s our right not to get this stuff, which is unwanted and mostly just torn up.”

However Mandip Johal, manager of Domino’s Pizza in Mount Ephraim, Tunbridge Wells, said: “We couldn’t run our home delivery business without advertising in this way, and in the 18 months since we opened, we have had only one complaint.”

He added: “We run four to five campaigns a year and send out about 60,000 leaflets, but if householders display notices requesting no junk mail, we respect that.”

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Lockheed Martin system to speed sorting of Postal Service packages

Posted by | Jul 28, 2006 | |

Packages sent via the U-S Postal Service should get where they’re going more quickly with technology that’s been developed by Lockheed Martin’s plant near Binghamton.

The Lockheed facility in Owego has received a 17-(m)-million-dollar contract to install nearly 40 optical character readers at bulk mail centers around the country.

The units will decipher handwritten addresses on packages which until now had to be sorted manually.

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