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Grayling to handle Postcomm PR

Posted by | Jul 8, 2005 | |

The Postal Services Commission (Postcomm) has awarded a three-year public affairs and PR contract to Grayling Political Strategy as it prepares to open up the pounds 5bn letters market to full-blown competition.

Grayling will support the postal regulator’s in-house PR team in communicating the reforms to businesses, consumers and politicians. According to the tender document, it will be expected to provide ‘hands-on support in the face of a hostile media storm’.

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UPS goes up against DHL in Chinese market

Posted by | Jul 8, 2005 | |

United Parcel Service is to launch its first package delivery service within China, pitting the US company against German-owned DHL in a battle for the Chinese domestic market. UPS said it would offer next-day deliveries between 23 Chinese metropolitan areas by September and planned to expand the network in future. Until now, UPS offered only international shipments in and out of China. DHL, a unit of Deutsche Post, was previously the only foreign company providing domestic package delivery. The new service represents a widening of UPS’s ambitions in China from its previous focus on imports and exports. “We intend to have the most extensive package delivery and logistics offering to, from and within China,” said David Abney, president of UPS’s international operations.

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China plans to split national post body

Posted by | Jul 8, 2005 | |

China will split its post authority, or China Post, into two parts in a bid to separate enterprises from government administration, Friday’s Oriental Morning Post reported. Under a plan submitted by the State Post Bureau (SPB) to the State Council, or the Chinese cabinet, China Post will be broken into the China Post Group and the Post Administration. “This was the goal of the ongoing postal system reform, which has been brewing for about seven years, ” said Xia Liqun, head of SPB’s information center. If the plan is approved, most staffs of post offices across China will become enterprise employees and the existing SPB will be replaced by the Post Administration with about 1,000 officials.

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FedEx Freight boosts Puerto Rico service

Posted by | Jul 8, 2005 | |

FedEx Freight said it is improving its ocean less-than-container load service by combining its mainland administrative and delivery systems with those of its Puerto Rican operating company, Caribbean Transportation Services. The LTL carrier says the consolidation of systems with CTS will simplify the process for shippers and improve overall efficiency. “By providing speed, precision, end-to-end visibility and a single invoice, it simplifies things for the customer. We believe it’s a value proposition,” said Dennie Carey, senior vice president of marketing.

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The US Postal Service is going to give first-class treatment to first-class mail, to beat back UPS and FedEx.

Posted by | Jul 8, 2005 | |

If the US Postal Service has its way, “the check is in the mail” excuse will no longer be valid. The company that sent you the bill could verify whether you’re bluffing through a bar code on the return envelope scanned by the Postal Service. That tracking system, which starts this month, is one way the Postal Service is making first-class mail such as bills and personal correspondence more valuable, in a world full of e-mail and electronic documents. The Postal Service says a financial institution will test the system in July by using the new bar code. The customer will track mail as it winds through the Postal Service’s 283 processing and distribution centers across the country. Currently, mail is mostly scanned at the beginning and delivery points. By year’s end, all letter mail could be tracked at Postal Service facilities. The Postal Service will add commercial customers throughout 2006.

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Guernsey Post postal licence change rethink

Posted by | Jul 7, 2005 | |

Guernsey Post and its watchdog will consult again on proposed changes to its operating licence. The Office of Utility Regulation now suggests scrapping and replacing condition 18, which contains the clauses that specify the conditions for price regulation. ‘The OUR’s aim with this proposed modification is to clarify further the services intended to be regulated under condition 18 of Guernsey Post’s licence,’ said director-general John Curran. The OUR’s initial attempt to regulate prices of postal services through its licence – as distinct to regulation law and postal law – was appealed by the company in October 2004. This is ongoing. Behind the appeal was Guernsey Post’s concern that it would lead to regulation of prices in competitive markets, where it believes it is entitled to a level playing field. However, the OUR argues that the October modification was ‘a tidying-up exercise’ and that there would be no increase in the watchdog’s powers.

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