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UPS ranked no. 4 in U.S. for “Best Reputation”

Posted by | Dec 14, 2005 | |

UPS has just been ranked No. 4 in the United States for best reputation. The latest Harris Interactive corporate reputation study also cited UPS for excellent customer service compared to its peers and ranked it No. 2 overall for “highest trust” in the event of a service problem. The Harris Interactive survey, published last week in The Wall Street Journal, ranked UPS No. 4 overall behind Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola and Google. Harris Interactive asked more than 19,500 consumers to rate companies on a list of 20 attributes in six key dimensions.

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Dutch Sandd gets govt mail delivery contract

Posted by | Dec 14, 2005 | |

Dutch postal services company Sort and Deliver (Sandd) has won the right on an order with the Dutch Government to deliver part of its mail for a period of three years from 2006, the Dutch Finance Ministry said on December 13, 2005.

This includes 25 million units of addressed bulk mail a year. Each unit is to be delivered within a period of four days.

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Deutsche Post raises FY EBIT forecast to at least 3.7 bln eur, was 3.6 bln

Posted by | Dec 14, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post AG said its full year EBIT will reach at least 3.7 bln eur, up from its earlier 3.6 bln eur forecast because of a reduction in its health care provisions. It said that the reversal of these provisions will have a positive impact of 1.0 bln eur on this year’s EBIT result. However, this impact will be partially offset by 0.7 bln eur in new provisions relating to unspecified ‘optimisation measures’ and the creation of a new global corporate services divisions. In total, these effects will have a positive impact of 0.3 bln eur.

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TNT adds NA President

Posted by | Dec 14, 2005 | |

TNT Express, looking to raise its profile in the United States and Canada, created the new position of president for North America and named Matthew McDonough to the post. The new structure separates North American and South American regional duties that had been overseen entirely by Curtis Watson, president of the Americas for TNT Express. The shift comes as Netherlands-based TNT is preparing to sell its separate logistics unit in a move to focus more closely on its mail and express divisions, which are strong in Europe but lag far behind the large express operators in the United States.

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UPS to make case v. Canada Post

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

Nearly five years after launching its dispute, US-based United Parcel Service Inc. will finally get to air its complaint this week that Canada Post is unfairly trying to use its postal monopoly to keep the courier rival at bay.
UPS will make its case before a North American Free Trade Agreement panel that Canada Post and Ottawa’s Canada Border Services Agency have discriminated against the Canadian subsidiary of UPS to give Canada Post an edge in the lucrative courier business. UPS launched the complaint under the controversial “investor rights” Chapter 11 of NAFTA, a part of the trade pact that attempts to protect the interest of foreign companies operating in Canada,
Mexico and the United States. UPS is seeking up to dollars 185-million in
damages.

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French post office invests EUR147m and selects Bull and Lockheed Martin

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

The Board of Directors of La Poste has authorized the Mail Directorate to award Bull, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, the contract to deliver the information system that will run its future mail sorting machines.

Through this EUR 147 million contract, La Poste will deploy an information system backed-up with the latest technologies over the 800 machines of the platforms covering the whole country. This deployment is part of the “Cap Qualite Courrier” programme.

Bull’s turnkey solution, developed in partnership with Lockheed Martin, involves providing a unique new automatic address interpretation and computer based mail sorting system. This system is based on optical reading (up to 50,000 letters per hour) of all of the information written on an envelope: address of recipient, information relative to sender, bar-code, date and stamp amount, etc. The first operational phase will begin during the course of 2007.

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Bull, Lockheed Martin win 147 mln eur order from French post office

Posted by | Dec 13, 2005 | |

France’s post office, La Poste, said it has signed a 147 mln eur contract with French IT services group Bull and with Lockheed Martin Corp for the companies to supply an IT system for its postal sorting machinery.

The contract, running from 2007 to 2010, will run in parallel with the construction of 13 new postal sorting platforms, Gabriel Hentzen, chief executive of La poste’s mail operations, told Agence France-Presse.

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