Union leaders are set to hold a strike ballot among 12,000 Royal Mail managers and supervisors in the dispute over pay.
Officials at Amicus argued that an informal offer means 4 out of 10 senior staff would receive less than the inflation rate and would in effect suffer a drop in income.
Read MoreThe U.S. Postal Service focus of using the latest technology to make customer transactions quick, easy and convenient is now being extended to its employees. The Postal Service is replacing its existing outdated human resources technology with a fully-integrated system to streamline, standardize and automate HR processes. Once fully implemented, the new system—called PostalPEOPLE—will be the largest of its kind anywhere.
Read MoreLuxembourg-based private mail delivery group Pin Group plans to become the second-largest sector company in Germany after Deutsche Post, group CEO Guenter Thiel said on July 14, 2006.
Pin Group, owned by German publishers Georg von Holtzbrinck, Axel Springer and WAZ, as well as by investment company Rosalia, plans to cover the entire German territory by the end of 2006. The group expects to pay its first dividend in 2008, when Deutsche Post’s monopoly will expire.
Read MoreGone are the days when messenger pigeons would take a flight and carry a letter to its destination. These pigeons were in use in the United States of America and Europe. Tales of their intelligence and sense of responsibility are common in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. In this part of the world mostly lover would use pigeon to do the needful.
Read MoreDHL, world’s leading express and logistics company, today inaugurated its new service centre in Bangalore.
The 21,000 sq ft facility will handle over 3,000 inbound and outbound shipments a day, weighing more than 25 tonnes and monitor 23 routes across South India, a company release said.
Read MoreGerman postal services group Deutsche Post AG will be more valuable if broken up and sold in pieces, according to estimates of a number of prominent investment banks.
Financial investors might take over the group in one piece and make a profit from the sale of its separate units, German weekly WirtschaftsWoche reported on July 17, 2006.
Read MoreCzech postal service operator Ceska posta (CP) is in talks with the country’s retail chains on expanding its network of outlets in hypermarkets, the daily Hospodarske noviny reported. But the negotiations won’t be closed any time soon.
“It’s complicated to set up a new outlet because Ceska posta requires a certain amount space for its operation to handle and store packages, for example,” said CP spokesman Ivo Mravinac. The minimum space required, he added, is about 120 square meters.
Read MoreThe world’s largest logistics group is looking to grow its business with retail customers outside the UK and luxury goods groups, according to its head.
John Allan, the head of Deutsche Post’s logistics division and the former chief executive of Exel, the UK company taken over by the German postal giant, said such opportunities should lead the unit to faster growth than the 5-6 per cent he forecasted for the industry as a whole.
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