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Estonian Post purchases Stampit pilot license from Deutsche Post

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

Eesti Post, the Estonian national postal service, signed a licensing agreement in Bonn today with Deutsche Post on the use of the PC franking solution STAMPIT HOME. This makes Estonia the third country, following the United Kingdom and Switzerland, whose postal service wishes to offer the innovative franking solution from Germany to its customers. Beginning in autumn, Eesti Post will be testing STAMPIT HOME, adapted for the Estonian market, on 50 pilot customers. Following a successful test run, Eesti Post plans to offer the program to its customers on a continuing basis.

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Masterlink Express reports increased revenue

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

Polish courier services provider Masterlink Express, controlled by the French postal services company GeoPost, reported a 62 mln Polish zloty (USD19 mln/15.4 mln euro) revenue for the first half of 2005, up 45 pct year-on-year, the company said. The number of parcels handled by the company grew 35 pct year-on-year from January to June 2005, the company added. The company plans to continue to expand its offices network across the country and to complete the second stage of the construction of its parcel-sorting centre in Lucmierz near lodz, in central Poland, in the second half of 2005.

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UK Royal Mail and Postcomm cross swords over price control

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

Royal Mail and Postcomm have again clashed over the regulator’s proposed price control, with job losses at the postal service under the media microscope.

Royal Mail is disputing Postcomm’s proposal that it can increase the price of first-class stamps from 30p to at most 34p by 2010.

Chief executive Adam Crozier, speaking on Monday’s ‘Today’ programme on BBC Radio 4, said the proposals were a backwards step.

“The proposals would take the company back to where it was three years ago, when we were losing GBP1.7bn,” he said.

Royal Mail is pushing for a bigger increase and has previously said that the control would lead to 40,000 job losses.

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Postcomm seeks consent from UK mail operators for licence changes

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

Royal Mail’s rivals have been asked by Postcomm to consent to its final proposed modifications to their existing licences ahead of the introduction of full postal competition in January.

Postcomm has come up with a new standard licence for alternative operators to Royal Mail after industry-wide consultation.

The licence would replace those it has already issued to 10 operators and take effect from January 1 2006, but all those operators need to agree to the changes.

Postcomm said it would talk to the operators informally to get their consent, but if not all of them give it, it would mean referring the proposed changes to the Competition Commission for it to rule on them. This could potentially delay full market opening.

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Direct Post service launched in India

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

The Department of Posts received nearly 12,000 articles on the day of the launch of Direct Post service in the district on Monday, to be delivered to the public. A bulk of them was from the Life Insurance Corporation of India, Unit Trust of India and Oriental Insurance Company.

Exuding confidence that the Direct Post would facilitate the department to improve its revenue, the Director of Postal Service, Southern Region, K. Balasubramanian, said this new service would improve the mail service of the department, which was losing ground since the rapid advancement of Information Technology, the wide use of telephone and web services.

Launching the Direct Post service at a function here, he said the new service would ensure prompt delivery by a dedicated team of delivery staff (postmen) to the targeted group. The delivery staff would be paid a nominal incentive per card / letter delivered.

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Chinese Postal Service reform must accelerate

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

The slow pace of the postal law amendment process is becoming a major impediment to the country’s postal system reform, experts say.

The State Council, China’s cabinet, finally endorsed a long-awaited postal system reform package late last month, formally kick starting a long-stalled reform process in the sector that many say is overdue. According to the plan, State Postal Bureau (SPB), also known as China Post, will separate the administrative role from its postal business functions, a move that many had expected.

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DHL launches Indian time-bound service

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

DHL has announced a Time Definite Delivery (TDD) service, a door-to-door delivery service that ensures that documents reach their destination by a specified time on the second business day. With the new service, customers in India can send or receive documents to and from 12 cities in the Asia-Pacific.

DHL’s ‘StartDay Express’ offers second day delivery pre-nine a.m. and ‘MidDay Express’ offers second day delivery pre-noon. If the delivery is not made by the stated time, the customer is notified and a report stating the reason for the delay is communicated. Should the cause of the delay lie with DHL, the total transportation charges could be refunded. The service will be first available in Mumbai and New Delhi and later in Chennai and Bangalore.

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DHL announces plans to expand facility near Columbus, Ohio

Posted by | Aug 9, 2005 | |

DHL plans to spend USD4 million to expand near Rickenbacker Airport, a move that will create 150 jobs. The express delivery and logistics company said the investment will be made over five years at its DHL Columbus Commerce Park on Spiegel Drive, north of Rickenbacker. The facility has 120 employees, a mixture of DHL workers and employees contracted through a company that is a partner of DHL. The additional hires primarily will be contract employees, DHL spokesman Robert Mintz said. DHL will expand its 320,000-square-foot warehouse at Rickenbacker by more than 20 percent. DHL uses the facility to provide logistics services, such as warehousing, inventory management, packaging and transportation management. “The primary reason for this expansion is growth in our third-party operations,” said John Robinson, director of logistics operations. “It allows us to expand for our current clients and accommodate new clients.”

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