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An Post to outsource cash transit service

Posted by | Mar 27, 2005 | |

An Post is proposing to outsource its countrywide cash transit service.

The postal service confirmed last week that it had received over 10 expressions of interest from private companies to tender for the provision of cash-in-transit services for selected post offices throughout Ireland. Most of this work is currently done by An Post delivery teams.

A spokesman for An Post said that only two of its cash delivery teams had been held up in the last two years. Private security teams have been held up at the rate of one a week over the same period.

We have by far the biggest network of cash outlets in the country, and the cash transit service involved is also one of the biggest in the country, said the spokesman. We are the main provider of social welfare deliveries, and we are the largest processing agent for bills. We’re a substantial provider of cash.

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DHL to spend USD160 million to automate package-sorting operations

Posted by | Mar 24, 2005 | |

In a bid to match US package-delivery rivals in efficiency, DHL Worldwide Express Inc. will invest USD160 million this year in technology that automates the package-sorting process.

The delivery and logistics company, owned by German mail carrier Deutsche Post AG, said it will upgrade automation by 2006 at its facilities in Wilmington, Ohio; Allentown, Pa.; and Riverside, Calif. Some jobs will be cut gradually, the company said.

The investment is part of DHL’s USD1.2 billion U.S. expansion and the company’s bid to become an alternative to United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.

So far, DHL says it serves just a sliver of the U.S. market, around 6.8 percent.

“This is just another confirmation of the fact that DHL is a key player in the United States,” said Fred Beljaars, executive vice president of operations for DHL Americas.

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Magyar Posta – a service to be proud of?

Posted by | Mar 24, 2005 | |

Despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, Magyar Posta claims it provides a good service, one that brought in a pre-tax profit of Ft5 billion (USD26.73 million) in 2004. Companies contacted by The Budapest Sun, however, tell a different story: one of sending invites out ever earlier or assuming they will go astray. Tamás Tomecskó, spokesman for Magyar Posta Rt, told The Budapest Sun that very few letters “go astray” and are delayed. “Last year we had some problems with our new mail processing and distribution in Budaörs, but there have been very few problems since then,” he said.

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USPS net income, standard mail volume rise

Posted by | Mar 24, 2005 | |

The US Postal Service generated net income of USD1.8 billion in the Oct. 1-Feb. 28 period, which was USD1.1 million over budget, the agency said yesterday.
Also, revenue totaled USD29.9 billion, which was USD808.5 million better than planned, and was up 1.8 percent from the year-ago period. Expenses of USD28.1 billion were USD252.9 million under plan, but up 3.5 percent from the year-ago period. Total year-to-date mail volume of 90.2 billion pieces increased 3.3 percent from the year-ago period. The most significant volume increase was in Standard Mail, which jumped 6.9 percent. The category with the next-largest increase was Priority Mail, up 2.7 percent.

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Three German publishers to form mail joint venture

Posted by | Mar 24, 2005 | |

DuMont-Schauberg, Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft and W. Girardet, three German local newspaper publishers based in the west of the country, are to form a mail delivery joint venture, which will be named West Mail. Business customers with large volumes of mail will constitute the main target market for the new company, which is to be launched in the coming month.

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Postal cooperation between DHL and Yamato going well

Posted by | Mar 24, 2005 | |

Cooperation between Japan’s Yamato Transport and Deutsche Post’s DHL Global Mail is off to a good start, Deutsche Post said in Bonn Thursday, some five months after the two companies began working together.

“We are extremely satisfied with the service and with the superb quality provided by Yamato,” a spokesman for Deutsche Post World Net said.

Deutsche Post said the volume of mail to Japan had increased but did not provide any figures.

At the beginning of November last year, Yamato, one of the leading private providers of mail services in Japan, entered into a cooperation agreement with DHL Global Mail, a global leader in mail services.

The agreement allows the two companies to offer clients joint international mail services in the Japanese market.

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Geodis opens up European front

Posted by | Mar 24, 2005 | |

Geodis is to launch a new European groupage servicecalled Eurofirst next month, providing customers with online tracking, PoDs and quality reports. The service will initially cover ten countries, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain; a further 15 countries will be added at the end of the year. Geodis launched the Eurofirst product at its annual results presentation in London last Friday. The main groupage business in the UK goes live with Eurofirst in April and the pallet network, Fortec, is expected to plug into the system in May. This should prove a major benefit for Fortec member companies and their customers, says managing director Rod Abrahams.

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