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Corporate Mailing Matters extends into secure transactional mail

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

Communications company Corporate Mailing Matters (CMM), has capitalised on its long experience in secure financial services mailings to extend the company’s activities into transactional mail (statements, statutory messages, notices, customer service correspondence). CMM has invested in GBP500,000 worth of additional equipment and facilities to underpin its transactional mail offering, and has already processed GBP750,000 of transactional business.

The company’s new transactional mail business is focusing on two clear clients areas – life and pensions administration, and fund management client service. These areas build organically on CMM’s original core business of financial reporting.

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Norway Post makes offer for OptiMail AB

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

The Norwegian postal services provider Posten Norge AS (Norway Post) announced on Tuesday (22 November) a public bid for all outstanding shares in the Swedish letter and logistics company OptiMail AB. The offer was made through Norway Post’s wholly-owned Swedish subsidiary CityMail Sweden AB. Norway Post currently controls 21.3% of the share capital of OptiMail AB. The offer amounts to SEK18.75 in cash per share, which represents a premium of 37% and values OptiMail at a total of SEK236m.

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ACCJ seeks equal competition conditions for Japan Post spin-offs

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan urged the Japanese government Tuesday to ensure that equivalent conditions of competition with private-sector firms will be applied to postal entities, which will be spun off from Japan Post and fully privatized by 2017 under the newly enacted postal reform laws. The body representing more than 1,400 companies said that Japan should follow “global best practices” such as treating domestic and foreign service providers equally and securing transparency and fairness in implementing the privatization laws.
“The ACCJ believes that privatization consistent with the global best practices identified in our report is crucial to achieving favorable results,” said ACCJ Executive Director Donald Westmore in releasing the organization’s report at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in Tokyo.

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UPS Bulgarian unit investing 1.5 Mln Euro in office and warehouses

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

In Time, a Bulgarian unit of US courier giant UPS, is investing three million levs (USD1.8 million/1.5 million euro) in its own office building and warehouses to reinforce logistics services, a company official said on Tuesday.
The company is building the facility near the airport in the capital Sofia and hopes to complete it at the beginning of next year, In Time head Zheni Belopitova told reporters. In Time has been operating in rented premises in Sofia since 1990 when it entered the Bulgarian market. The company saw its turnover rising by an average 20% every year in the past 15 years, Belopitova said.

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French post office staff to elect board representatives today

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

Employees of the French post office, La Poste, will today elect a total of seven representatives to the organisation’s board of directors for a five-year term. The successful candidates, drawn from a list presented by La Poste’s unions, will be announced on Friday. Then, on December 19, the newly-elected board will vote for a chairman.

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Online stores expect bumper Christmas sales

Posted by | Nov 22, 2005 | |

Online shopping is expected to increase by more than 40 per cent this year compared with last Christmas in a sign that the rapid growth of e-commerce is not yet starting to subside. The expected rise is in sharp contrast to the subdued outlook for high street retail sales. And threats to one of the main competitive advantages of online retailers – lower prices – are not seen as likely to derail that growth. Interactive Media in Retail Group, the industry body for “e-tailers”, expects 24m British shoppers will spend Pounds 5bn online this Christmas, an average of Pounds 208 each. That is up from Pounds 3.5bn spent online last Christmas and represents an acceleration of the online shopping growth rate. Last Christmas year-on-year growth was 20 per cent.

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Norway Post buys Swedish food logistics group Frigoscandia

Posted by | Nov 21, 2005 | |

Norway’s state-owned postal service, Norway Post, on Monday announced an agreement to buy Sweden’s Frigoscandia, a regional supplier of temperature-controlled transport of food and other products. Under the agreement, which requires Norwegian and Swedish regulatory approval, the companies withheld the purchase amount. Frigoscandia employs about 1,000 people at 24 special warehouse facilities in Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Its turnover in 2004 was more than 2 billion Swedish kronor, about USD245 million or EUR208 million.
“Norway Post is facing increased competition in a range of areas and this acquisition will strengthen our position in the domestic market too,” said Klaus-Anders Nysteen, acting head of Norway Post.

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US state agencies complain about DHL service

Posted by | Nov 21, 2005 | |

Ohio State agencies have made dozens of complaints about service by DHL since Jan. 1, when Ohio awarded the company a USD4.4 million contract to replace UPS as the state’s exclusive courier. Agency officials accuse DHL of a wide array of delivery and billing problems. The company said in a statement released through its public relations manager that some service issues are unavoidable when a change in vendor takes place. Gov. Bob Taft gave DHL an opportunity to bid on the contract after it agreed to move its hub from northern Kentucky to Wilmington, and it submitted the low bid. A spokesman for the governor said the office is aware some agencies are not happy with DHL’s service and expects the Department of Administrative Services to rigorously enforce the contract. DHL was awarded the contract shortly after Ohio won a bidding war with Kentucky for the new DHL air cargo hub.

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