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Belgian De Post/La Poste to cut 6,640 full-time jobs by 2010

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste will cut 6,640 full-time jobs by 2010, reducing its staff for the first time ever to less than 30,000, according to Belgian newspaper Le Soir, it was reported on October 10, 2005.
The measure is part of the business plan which De Post/La Poste has worked out with the national post office Post Denmark in the framework of their cooperation. De Post/La Poste will not lay off any employees. The downsizing will consist in 2,200 retirements, 1,630 early retirements, voluntary redundancies and people who will switch over to part-time work. De Post/La Poste plans to create 2,000 new jobs in order to strengthen its teams.

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UK Post Office strangling branches

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

Thousands of post offices face the axe because of red tape that subpostmasters say will ruin their businesses. They believe that the Post Office’s archaic curbs on how they work are stifling opportunities to thrive. But their efforts to overturn what they see as unfair terms in their contracts with the Post Office have been rebuffed. The Association of Convenience Stores, which has 10,000 post office members, lodged a complaint with the Office of Fair Trading last December over the contracts between the Post Office and subpostmasters. The association, backed by the Postmasternetwork website, claims that the contract is anti-competitive because it prevents sub-postmasters who run their own businesses from operating on equal terms with other retail outlets. But after a ten-month review, the OFT says it is closing its file unless the association can supply new evidence within the next few weeks.

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Post of Slovenia in line with new standards, its GM says

Posted by | Oct 10, 2005 | |

Post of Slovenia has in recent years successfully aligned its services with market demand and European standards, its general manager Ales Hauc told STA on Sunday, 10 October, marking the World Post Day. According to Hauc, the Maribor-based company is introducing new, up-to-date services, which have seen a rise of 127% in the past ten years. The company is focusing on quality, new financial and e-services, and traditional post services, he added. Slovenia’s EU entry was expected to bring increased competition and different business conditions, Hauc said, pointing to the introduction of new services such as parcels delivery and express post. However, only new technologies can make the company competitive and ensure it good business results.

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Poczta Polska to merge with PKO BP?

Posted by | Oct 9, 2005 | |

The country’s largest retail bank, PKO BP, and Poczta Polska(PP) national postal service may soon become one company, if Law and Justice (PiS)’s plans are implemented, writes Rzeczpospolita daily. According to the newspaper, some PiS representatives have already discussed the possibility of a merger with PP managers. “We cannot comment on these proposals, but PKO BP is our natural partner so we will certainly co-operate more closely,” said Marcin Anaszewicz, spokesman for the PP.

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China’s postal service reform plan arouses concern of private sector

Posted by | Oct 8, 2005 | |

A reform plan for the country’s postal service has been approved by the State Council, but the unclear definition of universal service and competitive service has aroused the concern from the private sector. According to the plan, the General Post Administration will serve as a regulatory organization and a new company, the China Postal Service Group, will be set up to take over the operational functions from the original postal service administration and hold the controlling shares of postal savings banks. But the reform plan has not touched such issues as how to divide the universal service and competitive service, how to divide the services by postal service group and EMS service by private sectors. The plan has put foreign enterprises and non-governmental enterprises on jitters.

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DHL invests in European logistics network

Posted by | Oct 7, 2005 | |

Peter E. Kruse, Member of the Corporate Board at Deutsche Post World Net with responsibility for DHL Express Europe and Germany, inaugurated a new state-of-the-art DHL terminal in Breslau yesterday. The terminal is intended to strengthen the European DHL logistics network. It is one of five new terminals to be opened in Poland in 2005. Costs for the new warehouse and sorting center amount to 3.3 million euros. The opening of the Breslau terminal and other facilities in the near future forms part of DHL Express’ consistent growth strategy in Europe. The terminal has a transshipment capacity of up to 15,000 items per day.

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DHL prepares for next decade with USD850m Asian plan

Posted by | Oct 7, 2005 | |

DHL, Asia’s biggest express operator by sales, is to double the size of its parcel handling centre at the airport as part of an USD850 million expansion which the carrier expects to satisfy demand for the next decade.

The expansion, to be completed by 2007, will build in a higher level of automation at its Central Asia hub, increasing the speed at which the European express firm can process the millions of packages it handles each year in Hong Kong.

“The expansion will create the first fully automated facility of its size in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Scott Price, chief executive (Asia-Pacific) for DHL Express. “It will be built to handle our projections of 90 million shipments a year by 2015 and should satisfy the capacity needs of even our most aggressive growth scenario. It is a long-term commitment to the Hong Kong area.”

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