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Kenyan Postal firm ventures into money transfer business

Posted by | Dec 10, 2004 | |

Thirteen International firms have applied to partner with Postal Corporation of Kenya (PCK) in the provision of international money transfer services.

The Post Master General, Dan Ameyo, said PCK has already received the tenders for the new venture.

Ameyo said successful applicants would be short-listed before the middle of next year.

PCK’s push for this facility is to enable the organisation to compete on an equal footing with international companies that offer similar services, notably Western Union and DHL Ltd.

Ameyo was speaking at a function where Information Minister Raphael Tuju re-launched PCK’s Express Mail Services.

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UK Royal Mail widens the gap between 1st and 2nd class stamps

Posted by | Dec 10, 2004 | |

Postwatch is very disappointed that Royal Mail has today announced that 1st class stamp prices will be increased by 2 pence to 30 pence from next April. Postwatch has consistently called on Royal Mail to freeze prices until they start to achieve acceptable levels of performance. Postwatch is also surprised that Royal Mail has chosen to widen the gap between 1st and 2nd class stamps.
Peter Carr, Chairman of Postwatch, commenting on the price increase said:
“Once again Royal Mail is increasing revenues by asking householders and
small businesses to pay more for their stamps. These are the customers least
likely to be offered a competitive alternative.

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Acquisition of Citipost Group by AMP Investments Ltd

Posted by | Dec 10, 2004 | |

Alternative Mail & Parcels Investments Ltd (AMP) acquired the Citipost Group from Royal Mail on the 10th December 2004. Citipost Group is a niche Financial Research Distribution Company, which AMP are confident will compliment AMP’s existing business interests. AMP is the market leader in B2B Catalogue, Directory and Publications distribution in the UK. Coupled with their international division, AMP Worldwide, they provide a solid existing
framework into which Citipost will be incorporated. AMP recently secured a long term postal licence from Postcomm, the postal industry regulator, which enables it to provide bulk mail, consolidated mail and tracked business-to-business mail services in the UK through it’s existing delivery network.

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Christmas stocking on the net

Posted by | Dec 9, 2004 | |

TINSEL TIME 2004 and one question is dominating the High Street: where have all the Christmas shoppers gone? Did they stock up at Marks & Spencer’s one-day Christmas sale spectacular, or were they too busy sweeping up Mix & Match three-for-the-price-of-two offers at Boots? Were they queueing up for the pre-Christmas sales at Allders or Debenhams or filling their stockings with buy-one-get-one-free DVDs at WH Smith? While High Street stalwarts are increasingly resorting to desperatelooking promotional drives to lure shoppers, online retailers are reporting phenomenal sales. The latest figures coming through are so strong that internet retail association Interactive Media in Retail Group (IMRG) had to raise its earlier prediction of online Christmas sales, made in October, by more than 15% to Pounds 4 billion.

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TNT Logistics expands Rolls-Royce connection in the UK

Posted by | Dec 9, 2004 | |

TNT Logistics in the UK has won a five year contract with the naval marine business of Rolls-Royce to warehouse and distribute materiel (equipment and material) used in the repair and maintenance of marine gas turbine engines. The 2100 sqm facility at Castle Donington in Leicestershire, has been developed alongside a TNT Logistics cross-dock operation which handles materiel for aircraft engines produced by Rolls-Royce. The two companies have been working together for five years.

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Nightspeed denies deal

Posted by | Dec 9, 2004 | |

Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express has denied a report that it has signed for Pall-Ex to deliver pallets nationwide. Nightspeed MD Ian Pickford told MT: “The rumour is nonsense. We have talked to networks but have signed nothing.”

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DHL gets a delivery of its own

Posted by | Dec 9, 2004 | |

Express carrier DHL International is in the process of taking delivery of 140 Eurocargos following the signing of a pan European agreement between Deutsche Post and Iveco.

The deal covers all 7.5-tonne vehicles procured during 2004 by companies within the Deutsche Post World Net group.

The Eurocargo 75E17Ses are being used to replace older 7.5-tonners in the DHL fleet, including a large number of Cargos that have been in operation for between four and six years.

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Portuguese postal workers begin two-day strike

Posted by | Dec 9, 2004 | |

Thousands of Portuguese postal workers began a two-day strike Thursday over job cuts and government plans to privatize some service offered by state postal firm CTT.

“There is going to be a significant delay in the delivery of mail,” the secretary-general of postal workers’ union SNTCT, Victor Narciso, told AFP.

He said roughly 50 percent of the 10,000 workers represented by the union were taking part in the strike.

Unions are angered over CTT plans to reduce the number of post offices it operates, slash the number of workers and develop more joint ventures with the private sector.

The loss-making CTT has cut 2,100 jobs since July 2002 and intends to cut another 2,400 positions.

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