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Preference Service bought out by IPT

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

IPT is merging The Preference Service, the lifestyle data company it acquired last month, with its own postal data side under a new division called IPT Postal. Thomas Adalbert, former MD of The Preference Service, will lead the new division.The lifestyle survey brand Postal Preference Service will disappear.
IPT, led by chairman Lionel Thain, acquired the entire issued share capital of The Preference Service, valued at GBP4.3m. The Preference Service was majority owned by the UK and Dutch Post Offices, with a database of four million households and 0.35 million email records.

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DHL delivers on investments

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

DHL has responded to recent changes in world trading practice by spending up big in supporting Australian supply chains both internationally and at regional levels. In May, it opened an air express cargo facility at Darwin to expand freight traffic between Australia and Asia. In July, the company opened a dispatch, warehousing and distribution facility for regional NSW in the State’s second city, Newcastle. Both new facilities followed the March opening of the DHL Oceania hub at Sydney airport, and a new Perth airport hub designed as an improved gateway to Europe, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region. Headquartered in Germany, DHL has invested over $2.2 billion in Asia-Pacific facilities, much of it in the wake of recently established free trade agreements in the region and continuing negotiations among ASEAN nations for further trade liberalisation.

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Deutsche Post suspected by regulator of abusing dominant market position

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

Deutsche Post AG is suspected by Germany’s Federal Networks Agency regulator of abusing its dominant market position and may face a formal investigation on the matter, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported, citing an internal agency memo it obtained. The newspaper also wrote that numerous private mail delivery companies complained that Deutsche Post was hindering their ability to enter the market for collecting and sorting letters. A Deutsche Post spokesman denied it was hindering competition when contacted by the newspaper.

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Japanese gov’t submits postal bills to Diet, aiming to enact laws in mid-Oct.

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

The government again submitted postal privatization bills to the Diet – about 50 days after Japan’s upper house scrapped them – and hopes they pass in mid-October. The bills were submitted to the House of Representatives after being endorsed during an extraordinary Cabinet meeting in the morning. Postal privatization is a centerpiece policy of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s structural reform drive. The fresh bills are almost identical to those the House of Councillors rejected Aug. 8, when opponents of them, including members of Koizumi’s Liberal Democratic Party, voted against them. They are certain to pass the ongoing special Diet session as Japan’s governing coalition of the LDP and New Komeito party took more than two-thirds of the lower house seats in the Sept. 11 general election. The special Diet session convened last week for a 42-day run through Nov. 1. Upper house LDP rebels have recently changed their stance and now support the bills.

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French banks ask for right to distribute National Savings

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

Four French banks – Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole SA and Groupe Banque Populaire – have written to the French prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, offering to distribute France’s national savings account, Livret A, for a deposit-based commission of only 0.8 per cent. The account, whose deposits are used to fund French social housing projects, is currently available only via the French post office, La Poste, and the French co-operative bank Caisse d’Epargne.

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Portugal CTT to launch e-mail service

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

Portugal’s postal operator CTT-Correios de Portugal plans to launch a new e-mail service. CTT’s new e-mail box, called Caixa Electronica Postal, will be available as of the first quarter of 2006, the company’s chairman, Luis Nazare, said. Caixa Electronica Postal will be the first product in the segment of the digital services of CTT, Nazare added. Initially, CTT will distribute a total 5,000 e-mail boxes to clients in the country’s public administration sector. The company targets later each Portuguese national to use CTT’s e-mail box. According to the company, the service will be free for the citizens in the country. Apart from the new e-mail service, CTT is currently studying the opportunities to enter also the segment of hybrid mail services.

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Amtrak’s new weightlifters boost home delivery services

Posted by | Sep 26, 2005 | |

Amtrak Express Parcels has marked an important change in the home delivery market by offering a new express service for goods that are too heavy to be carried by traditional parcel services. The heavy lift ‘two-man’ delivery service will be of particular appeal to retailers who need to deliver popular items such as plasma and LCD TV’s, as well as a whole range of other electrical goods and home appliances. The new service gives retailers and e-retailers the scope to sell a wider range of products for home delivery with the convenience of a single carrier.

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South African Post Office makes R135m profit

Posted by | Sep 25, 2005 | |

The South African Post Office made a 135 million rand profit from trading operations for the financial year ended March 2005 – an improvement of 108 million rand on last year. It was the Post Office’s second year of profitability. Cash generated from operations amounted to 371 million rand.
Newly appointed CEO, Khutso Mampeule said:”Naturally we are excited to announce the ground breaking financial results, especially because there’s a huge improvement from last year’s financial results.”

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