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UK stamp price changes from April 2006 will better reflect costs of handling mail

Posted by | Jan 17, 2006 | |

A basic First Class stamp will rise by 2p to 32p from 3 April 2006, Royal Mail confirmed today. The rise, which was indicated in Postcomm’s price control announcement last month, remains subject to alteration if Royal Mail does not accept the regulator’s overall price control, which is currently out for consultation. A decision on this will not be taken until the beginning of March 2006. The price of a basic Second Class stamp will also rise by 2p to 23p, subject to the same condition. First Class franked mail and items carrying a printed postage impression (PPI) will continue to get a 1p discount for items up to 60g compared to the price of stamped mail. For the first time, this discount will also apply to Second Class franked and PPI mail, Royal Mail announced today.

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GBP1m up for QuorumValue – Nightfreight PLC gains customers

Posted by | Jan 16, 2006 | |

Nightfreight says that its QuorumValue product, launched in July last year, has done more than (pounds sterling)1m-worth of business from 858 customers in less than six months.

The service is aimed at a mix of consignment types that might otherwise be split among customers. A typical mix might include satchels, standard parcels and packages, IDW (irregular dimension and weight) consignments and pallets.

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Okuda, 4 others named outside directors of postal privatization firm

Posted by | Jan 16, 2006 | |

The government on Monday appointed Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, and four other business leaders as outside board members of a company to be founded next Monday to prepare for privatizing Japan’s postal services. The other four leaders are Uichiro Niwa, chairman of Itochu Corp., Haruo Ushio, chairman of Ushio Inc., Takashi Nishioka, chairman of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and Reiko Okutani, president of The R Co. The appointment of the five outside directors will be formalized at the preparatory company’s inaugural meeting slated for Friday.

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Canada Post's plan for expanded monopoly denounced by mail association

Posted by | Jan 16, 2006 | |

Today, a coalition of private Canadian and international mail companies is strongly urging the next federal government, once it takes office, to rein in immediately Canada Post which has sought injunctions against a number of private postal providers in a bid to expand its monopoly over international mail delivery and effectively kill thousands of Canadian jobs linked to Canada’s thriving Dollars 100-million outbound mail industry. It also calls for a parliamentary review of the exclusive privilege provisions of the Canada Post Corporation Act as soon as Parliament gets back to business. “It is totally unacceptable that, after over 20 years of open and fair competition, Canada Post now says it has a monopoly over outbound mail and is trying to put us out of business,” says Gwyneth Howell, spokesperson for the Canadian International Mail Association which represents the interests of a number of private mail companies such as Key Mail Canada and Spring Global Mail, smaller letter shops operating all across the country, as well as some of Canada’s biggest printing companies.

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Post trade union to protest IPO till OeIAG decision in March 2006

Posted by | Jan 16, 2006 | |

The trade union of Austrian state-owned postal company Oesterreichische Post AG decided on January 16, 2006 to oppose the initial public offering (IPO) of the post office up to the decision of state-holding and privatisation agency OeIAG on the sale, which is expected not sooner than in mid-March 2006. Trade union head Gerhard Fritz and his deputy Manfred Wiedner gave no detail on the plans for future action, except for a protest march, which will take place on January 19, 2006. Fritz did not exclude the possibility of a strike.

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DHL names EVP for Customer Experience Initiative

Posted by | Jan 16, 2006 | |

DHL today announced the appointment of Hans Hickler, the company’s Executive Vice President of Business Strategy and Implementation, to lead DHL’s new Customer Experience Initiative, which is focused on ensuring a superior customer experience across all touch points. Hickler will lead a dedicated executive team within the areas of customer care and contact and e-commerce services to evaluate and drive improvement to each customer touch point and all processes that impact the DHL customer experience. “The DHL Customer Experience team is dedicated to assuring that our company is positioned to deliver the best possible customer experience for every DHL customer,” said Hickler. “We will go above and beyond to make sure that DHL employees, from managers to couriers to call center reps, are delivering on the promise of a superior customer experience in every interaction they have.”

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Deutsche Post to sell 18 hotel properties this week

Posted by | Jan 16, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG will announce the sale of its 18 hotel properties to an unnamed Munich investor this week, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported, without saying where it obtained the information. The newspaper did not say how much the company will receive for the properties, which were originally built to house employees travelling on business. It noted, however, that Deutsche Post has received at least 200 mln eur in recent years from the sale of such non-core assets.

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