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India Post seeks return to monopoly on letters

Posted by | Feb 17, 2005 | |

In a move that will have serious implications for the Rs 2,500-crore courier industry, the United Progressive Alliance government has revived the Indian Post Office (Amendment) Bill, 2002 that seeks to regulate private courier and express companies. If the Bill is enacted, all courier companies would be barred from carrying letters, to be defined as packets below a certain weight. The draft Bill proposes to vest the government’s postal department with the exclusive privilege of carrying all letters. The amendment is also likely to include regulatory provisions including imprisonment and penalties for courier firms, which already fall under the purview of various legislations like the Consumer Protection Act and Customs Act. When contacted, department of posts secretary R Ganeshan refused to comment. A source in the department, however, confirmed that the draft Bill was being finalised.

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Postcomm issues a long term licence to Mail Plus

Posted by | Feb 17, 2005 | |

Following consultation, Postcomm today issued a long term licence to Mail Plus Ltd to provide bulk mail and consolidation services. The licence contains a requirement for Mail Plus to maintain separate accounts for its UK licensed business to show that it is not being unfairly cross-subsidised by its parent company, La Poste.

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UPN boss joins rival

Posted by | Feb 17, 2005 | |

Andrew Sepencer left United Pallet Network, where he was managing director, on Friday to join rivals Pallet-Track as sales and marketing director. Spencer says: It was a personal decision to leave. I became stale and stagnant at UPN. I wanted to move forward and Pallet-Track presented me with an excellent way to achieve this. I cant wait to get involved.

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Swedish Scribona extends partnership with German Schenker, DHL

Posted by | Feb 16, 2005 | |

Swedish information management products provider Scribona AB has extended its partnership with German logistics provider Schenker AG and DHL, the express logistics subsidiary of German postal group Deutsche Post AG, it was reported on February 16, 2005. Through the collaboration, the logistics systems will be integrated and Scribona’s physical inventory management and transports will be taken over by DHL and Schenker. Scribona’s logistics personnel in Sweden will be offered employment at DHL by the summer of 2005. Within 18 months, all physical inventory management will be relocated to one of DHL’s logistics centres at the same time that the logistics systems are integrated. The motive behind the collaboration is to create a more flexible supply chain function, Magnus Johansson, head of Scribona’s Supply Chain Management unit, said.

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Comment on German postal services market from 2004 Annual Report

Posted by | Feb 16, 2005 | |

The German postal services market generated revenues in 2004 of more than €23 billion. Some two thirds of the market is open to competition. Just under two thirds of these revenues is accounted for by Deutsche Post AG (DPAG), with the remaining third being split among a number of providers, most notably courier, express and parcel service providers.

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Japan Post’s mail segment incurs 56.2 bil. yen midterm loss

Posted by | Feb 16, 2005 | |

Japan Post said Wednesday its mail delivery service posted a 56.2 billion yen net loss in the April-September period of fiscal 2004. Japan Post blamed the sector’s red ink on the growing number of people using e-mail instead of ordinary postal services. The public postal service entity was reporting its midterm results for the first time on a trial basis. Although it reduced personnel expenses, the shrinkage in the amount of conventional mail outweighed the effects of the cost cut, it said. When Japan Post closed its full-year books for the year to March 31, 2004, the mail segment returned to the black for the first time in two years.

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Number of parcels delivered by Japan Post breaks FY 1970 record

Posted by | Feb 16, 2005 | |

The number of parcels Japan Post delivered between last April and early this month has reached a record-high 184.97 million, breaking the previous record set in fiscal 1970, the public postal service agency said Wednesday. The previous record was set in the 12-month period beginning April 1, 1970, according to Japan Post. The new all-time high was logged partly because Japan Post teamed up last November with major convenience store chain operator Lawson Inc. to provide the “Yu-Pack” door-to-door parcel delivery service. The growth in Japan Post’s parcel service could draw flak from its archrival parcel service provider, Yamato Transport Co., industry analysts say.

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Delivering tough postal competition

Posted by | Feb 16, 2005 | |

Few markets are harder to open than postal services. Slowly but surely, e-mail, regulation, competition and market fragmentation are forcing national operators to rethink their models. Europe’s pace is about to quicken. Denmark will soon announce the winner of a 25 per cent stake in Post Danmark, with Dutch TPG and Germany’s Deutsche Post among contenders. Belgium wants a minority partner to modernise its service: TPG and France’s La Poste are rumoured to be considering bidding jointly. Cross-border consolidation so far has been held back by slow liberalisation and national sensitivity. Austria balked last year at partial privatisation for fear its service would land in German hands. Change has to come. Under EU pressure, the legally permissible monopoly on letters dropped from 350 to 100 grams in 2003 and falls to 50 next year. Markets are supposed to be open completely by 2009, though several may not be ready.

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