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Heads from six postal services gather

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

Senior executives from six postal administrations in the Asia-Pacific region will today wrap up their three-day meeting held at Seoul’s Shilla Hotel, the meeting’s organizer Korea Post said yesterday.
Participants of the fourth annual Kahala Posts Group CEO/BOD Joint Meetings discussed the current status and future prospects of “express mail services,” or EMS, and the implementation of the Kahala Initiative, the state-run postal service said.

Participants include Tam Wing-pong, postmaster general of Hong Kong Post; Toshihiro Takahashi, senior executive vice president for Japan Post; Hwang Joong-yon, inspector general of Korea Post; Ma Jun Sheng, vice director-general of the Chinese State Postal Bureau; Graeme John, managing director of Australia Post; and Paul Vogel, vice president for network operations management in the U.S. Postal Service. Adam Crozier of the U.K.’s Royal Mail, which will soon likely join the Kahala membership, also attended the meeting.

The Kahala Initiative refers to an integrated postal service network among six member countries including Korea, the United States, Japan, China, Australia and Hong Kong, to enhance the quality and competitiveness of EMS.

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SingPost's quarterly net profit rises 5% to $30.9 million

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

SINGAPORE Post yesterday reported a 5 per cent rise in net earnings to $30.9 million, on turnover of $105.1 million, for the three months ended June 30, 2006.

During the quarter, mail revenue grew 5.4 per cent to $82.4 million, due to improved performances by all business lines, namely, domestic mail, international mail, hybrid mail and philatelic. Thank to higher contributions from Speedpost, warehousing, fulfilment and distribution, logistics revenue rose 11 per cent to $15 million from $13.5 million previously.

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Postal regulator set to unveil plan to split UK Royal Mail in two

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

Radical plans to split the Royal Mail in two and reduce the volume of letters covered by its one-price-goes-anywhere guarantee are to be canvassed next month by the postal regulator.

Postcomm is preparing to launch a strategic review of the organisation which will float a number of far-reaching ideas for increasing competition in the mail market.

One idea is to separate Royal Mail’s trunk network from its “last mile” delivery network of postmen and postwomen to make the business more transparent to rival operators.

Another is to remove more categories of mail from the universal service obligation (USO) which requires Royal Mail to deliver to all addresses in the country at a uniform price. At present, about three-quarters of all letters, including normal first- and second-class deliveries and the two biggest categories of business mail, are covered by the USO.

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DHL Express bags 2006 CIO Award

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

Express and logistics firm DHL was awarded the prestigious Chief Information Officer (CIO) Award at the recent CIO Asia Conference and Awards 2006 at the Grand Hyatt in Singapore.

The firm was selected among 100 Asian companies that yielded the greatest returns for their businesses by using technology and information technology (IT) projects and systems to derive the highest strategic value.

DHL was conferred with the CIO Award in recognition of its “Supply Chain Optimization” project.

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DHL, Lufthansa Cargo in strategic security partnership

Posted by | Jul 25, 2006 | |

DHL Global Forwarding and Lufthansa Cargo announced that they have signed a strategic air-cargo security partnership agreement.

The companies said the partnership will develop standard operating procedures that support customer and governmental security requirements. They said the procedures will improve safety for employees who handle high-value and high-risk products, and make DHL a more attractive forwarder for customers shipping high-value or sensitive goods.

Tony Widmer, head of airfreight for DHL Global Forwarding, said the hoped the partnership would attract more air carriers and boost freight volume.

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USPS gets a lift: RFID system designed for delivers a bonus: asset management

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

When the Postal Service launched an initiative to better maintain safety records for its industrial vehicles, the goal was modest–reduce the agency’s reporting burden.

Well over a year later, though, the Powered Industrial Vehicle Management System has produced a significant number of benefits, not only automating the reporting process but improving safety and helping USPS better manage its industrial fleet.

“This really helps facilitate the safer environment, the mechanics and the documentation,” said Victoria Stephen, manager of the material handling deployment within the USPS’ Engineering division.

USPS started the program essentially as a pilot in January 2005, when it signed a USD 3.6 million contract with I.D. Systems of Hackensack, N.J., to implement a wireless asset management system at 10 bulk mailing and distribution facilities across the country. The service has since installed the system in 56 facilities.

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Singapore Post posts 5% gain in Q1 profit

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

Singapore Post has reported a 5% gain in first quarter profit to S$31 million (€15.5 million) compared to a year ago, mainly due to higher sales at its core businesses. Revenue rose 8.5% to S$105 million (€52.5 million).

Going forward, SingPost says it is well positioned to handle the loss of its monopoly of basic mail services by 2007. SingPost’s exclusive licence for basic mail services expires at the end of March next year. The mail services provider says it will continue to drive growth in its core businesses. Various strategies for growth have been identified.

SingPost says it will focus on rolling out higher value products and services to its customers. At the same time, it will extend its regional reach by tying up with key partners in the region for online shopping, through its internet portal.

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How UPS went from low-tech to an IT power

Posted by | Jul 24, 2006 | |

Mr. Barnes, the 52-year-old senior vice president and chief information officer at United Parcel Service Inc., oversees a division of 4,700 employees that develops much of the company’s software, services an Internet site that draws 18.5 million visitors a day, maintains 8,700 servers and monitors 15 massive mainframes capable of processing millions of instructions per second. And he gets to spend more than $1 billion a year to do it.

Promoted 19 months ago from vice president of information-technology development for customer and operations applications, Mr. Barnes is guiding a massive implementation of computer-driven automation, Web-site enhancements and other innovations designed to wring more efficiency from a famously proficient network, which moves an average of 15 million packages a day across the world.

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