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Miami DHL gateway Teamsters approve first contract

Posted by | Dec 5, 2005 | |

Teamsters at the Miami International Airport (MIA) DHL gateway facility overwhelmingly approved a four-year contract yesterday, gaining wage increases, a pension plan and job security language.

By ratifying the contract, the 130 workers at MIA became the third DHL gateway location to be protected by a Teamster agreement this year. Miami gateway workers are joining 300 DHL Teamsters at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and 150 gateway workers at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

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Chief Executive of Business Post resigns

Posted by | Dec 5, 2005 | |

Business Post Group announces that Paul Carvell, Chief Executive, has resigned from the Group with immediate effect to pursue other opportunities. His role will be assumed by Guy Buswell, 44, who has been Managing Director of UK Mail since July 2002. Peter Kane, Chairman, commented “Since his arrival in February 2001, Paul has made a key contribution to the development of the Group and its broadening range of services. Guy has been a Board Director since 1998 and his experience of the business and considerable success in the establishment of UK Mail as the leading alternative to the Royal Mail qualify him to take the Group forward as Chief Executive.”

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Watchdog saves Royal Mail with stamp price increase

Posted by | Dec 4, 2005 | |

Postal regulator Postcomm is expected to throw a lifeline to financially stretched Royal Mail this week in the form of an unexpectedly generous agreement on future stamp prices.

In its final price review, to be unveiled on Wednesday, it is thought Postcomm will say it has heeded warnings from Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton about the state-owned operator’s financial plight, particularly its pounds 4.2 billion pension deficit. Last month Leighton told the Trade and Industry Select Committee that the deficit made Royal Mail technically insolvent.

While the price control cov ers a range of prices, the key measure is the first class stamp. Postcomm’s initial proposals, published in June, indicated an increase from 30p to 34p between 2006 and 2010.

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Pitney Bowes delivers . . . showing Royal Mail the route

Posted by | Dec 4, 2005 | |

Even Sir George Bains review of the Royal Mail seems to have got lost in the post. Widely tipped to come at the end of November, the Department of Trade and Industry says the former head of the London Business School will now not reveal his views on the future of the Royal Mail. Delivery is everything and the Government-sponsored research will, however, begin to surface in various policies just as the Royal Mail faces the toughest challenge in its 345-year history. On 1 January it loses its monopoly as part of cross-European liberalisation which will open the market to full competition. Firms such as Pitney Bowes, with a market value of USD9.62bn (GBP5.56bn, E8.20bn), will be looking for more opportunities in the British market along with Frances Neopost, and Francotyp-Postalia of Germany. Pitney Bowes is a good example of an old-fashioned company that has transformed its business to capitalise on the diverse ways we receive our messages. It is more commonly associated with inventing the franking machine and has now diversified into data management, electronic billing and commercial printing.

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TNT Express sees revenues slowing in 2005

Posted by | Dec 2, 2005 | |

Delivery services provider TNT Express Worldwide Philippines, Inc. yesterday said it expects revenues this year to grow by 28percent, slower than the 40percent revenue growth it posted last year.

TNT Express country general Manager Jose Luis R. Salas said revenue growth will slow this year due largely to the decision of one of its major clients, Acer Philippines, Inc., to transfer its manufacturing operation to China.

“Revenue growth for the year is expected to soften on account of Acer’s decision to transfer to China,” Mr. Salas told reporters yesterday in a briefing in Makati City.

He said growth for 2005 is expected to come from its high-end special services business as well as its courier and logistics operations.

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Dutch Selekt Mail to buy Postmij

Posted by | Dec 2, 2005 | |

Netherlands-based postal services company Selekt Mail Nederland, a joint venture company of Dutch publishing group Wegener and German postal services company Deutsche Post AG, has agreed to buy the activities of local sector company Postmij, Selekt Mail said on December 1, 2005. The takeover includes the use of the central depot and the involved employees, precisely some 200 postmen and about six full-time employees. Reportedly, Selekt Mail is a discounter on the liberalised part of the Dutch postal delivery market. The company competes mainly with local market leader TPG Post and aims at a 20 pct share of the domestic postal market. Through the takeover of Postmij, Selekt Mail is a step closer to achieve its objective, Selekt Mail director, John Kuiper, said.

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French banks claim Banque Postale unfair

Posted by | Dec 2, 2005 | |

The creation of a state-owned postal bank in France moved a step closer yesterday despite a hostile reception from the country’s bigg-est listed banks, which filed a complaint to the European Commission claiming unfair competition.

La Banque Postale, a subsidiary of the national post office, is due to be created on January 1, after winning approval from the French regulator on Wednesday night. With 28m clients, Euros 4.3bn (Dollars 5bn) of revenues, and 17,000 retail outlets, it will increase fierce competition in French banking.

Within minutes of the regulator giving its green light, four of France’s biggest banks, Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, Banque Populaire and Credit Agricole, lodged an appeal to the Brussels competition authority, asking it to block the postal bank’s creation.

The Commission said yesterday it would announce before Christmas whether it would approve the creation of La Banque Postale or open an inquiry.

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Donovan slams MPs attack on UK Postwatch as ‘nonsense’

Posted by | Dec 2, 2005 | |

Postwatch North chairman and industry stalwart Judith Donovan has hit back at a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report which claims the watchdog is “feeble”, branding the findings “nonsense”. The PAC, made up of MPs, this week published its report into Postwatch and Energywatch, highlighting that huge numbers of complaints relating to lost mail and wrong energy bills are still flooding in, five years after the groups were established. But Donovan counters: “It makes you wonder if it’s writing about the same organisation. To say we don’t have grass-roots support is nonsense. We’ve got nine regional offices. You couldn’t get more grass- roots than that. As for a rise in complaints, we’re very disappointed that the committee hasn’t remembered our briefing last January. Of course we’ve had more complaints. At that time Royal Mail was falling apart.”
She continues: “The committee has also failed to recognise our work in getting Royal Mail to revise its pricing in proportion scheme.”

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