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Belgian La Poste/De Post to close 45 post offices by June 2006

Posted by | Feb 21, 2006 | |

Belgian postal service company an La Poste/De Post will close 45 post offices before June 2006, local news site 7 sur 7 reported on February 21, 2006. Of the total, 23 will be immediately replaced by a PostPunten sales counter, three will be replaced by a brand new post office and another 19 will be excluded from the sales network for being obsolete or for security reasons. The new management contract of La Poste provides for the closure of over 100 post offices in 2006.

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Thousands of UK post offices `won't be closed'

Posted by | Feb 21, 2006 | |

Royal Mail denied today that it had any plans to close thousands of post offices but admitted it faced a “challenging” future. Chief executive Adam Crozier repeated to MPs earlier this month that just 4,000 offices would be needed to run a basic postal service. There are 14,500 post offices across the UK, but officials made it clear today this did not mean that 10,000 would close.
“We have absolutely no plans to close 10,000 post offices, although the outlook for the network remains challenging,” said a spokesman. “The future of the network depends to a large extent on Government decisions. There have always been more post offices than is required for a mail service. That is because they have offered a range of other services in the past, most of which have been from Government.”

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Postwatch urges Postcomm to rethink Presstream proposal

Posted by | Feb 21, 2006 | |

Postwatch has written to all Members of Parliament, to encourage them to support the Early Day Motion number 1632, which urges the regulator Postcomm to rethink its proposal to remove the Presstream product from the Royal Mail price control. This action supports the Periodical Publishers Association call for the regulator to change its position and protect the magazine industry – and customers – from the potential of exposure to higher prices. A spokesman said
“We hope that the regulator will look again at its proposal. If it doesn’t, magazine publishers will be in the hands of an unregulated de facto monopoly service provider, with no notable competitive options available for years. Postwatch welcomes deregulation, but at the right time and for the right products. The regulator has got it wrong on both counts.”

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UPS once again “America’s Most Admired”

Posted by | Feb 21, 2006 | |

UPS today was rated “America’s Most Admired” company in its industry in an annual survey conducted by FORTUNE magazine. The company also ranked in the Top 10 across all of corporate America in seven of the eight criteria used by the magazine to rank companies, including a No. 1 ranking for social responsibility for the third straight year. UPS was ranked No. 2 in the United States for “product quality.” It was rated No. 3 in each of the categories of “best use of assets” and “financial soundness.” And it ranked No. 5 for “people management;” No. 6 for “management quality,” and No. 9 for “long term investment.” In the FORTUNE rankings for the Delivery Industry, UPS was rated No. 1 with a composite score of 8.54 on a 10-point scale, almost six-tenths of a point ahead of its nearest competitor. UPS has been ranked No. 1 in its industry for 22 of the last 23 years.

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Norwegian Postal service eyes major cuts

Posted by | Feb 21, 2006 | |

The head of the Norwegian postal service (Posten) wants to get out of the state-mandated banking business and shut half of its post offices around the country. That’s not popular, either among the public or politicians. Record profits aren’t enough to keep postmaster general Dag Mejdell happy. Dag Mejdell, who recently took over as Posten’s chief executive, unveiled record profits this week but nonetheless wants to further cut overhead. The postal service already has been through a major reorganization that closed traditional post offices and re-established some as kiosks inside grocery stores. That hasn’t been enough, Mejdell thinks, to cut costs sufficiently. Now he also wants to shut down as many as 150 of the 303 post offices left in Norway. “The analysis we have done indicates that there’s no economic foundation for them,” Mejdell told newspaper Dagens Næringsliv on Tuesday. Closing half the country’s post offices would save around NOK 500 million a year, he figures.

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Japan Post to cut mail delivery offices

Posted by | Feb 21, 2006 | |

Japan Post has decided to stop mail delivery and collection at 1,000 primarily rural post offices by October 2007, when postal privatization begins, sources said. Currently, about 4,700 of the nation’s 24,600 post offices provide those services. The cuts are being planned despite a statement by Heizo Takenaka, state minister in charge of postal services privatization, that “in principle, post offices in underpopulated areas will be preserved.” Labor unions and others have expressed concern that, in underpopulated and rural areas, the cuts would reduce the frequency of mail collection and delivery. Post offices where mail delivery and collection would be terminated would continue over-the-counter services.

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DHL to invest USD2.0 mln in Colombia 2006

Posted by | Feb 20, 2006 | |

DHL Global Forwarding Colombia plans to invest around USD2.0 mln (1.67 mln euro) in improvement of its services in 2006, the company’s manager, Alvaro Mancilla, said on February 19, 2006. DHL will invest the sum mainly for expansion of its cargo platforms in the city of Cali and along the Colombian Atlantic coast. The Colombian company exported 42,000 tonnes of cargo and imported 123,000 tonnes in 2005, and its sales totalled UD60 mln (50.2 mln euro).

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Fedex chooses Philippines for planned backroom office

Posted by | Feb 20, 2006 | |

Federal Express (FedEx) has chosen the Philippines as the site for a planned regional hub that will handle the logistics firm’s Asia Pacific business process operations (BPO) and the firm is now scouting for an area in Manila, the BusinessWorld newspaper reported, citing a FedEx statement. The report said FedEx will set up the backroom office after it closes its regional air trans-shipment hub at the Subic Freeport Zone in the province of Zambales in Dec 2008.

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