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MP says – Fix Canada Post before raising prices

Posted by | Dec 2, 2004 | |

A proposed one-cent increase in the price of stamps for domestic mail is a “cash grab” by Canada Post that the government should halt because of spending problems at the Crown corporation, Conservative MP Brian Pallister said yesterday.

Canada Post should first demonstrate it has fixed internal management deficiencies uncovered this year in an audit by Deloitte Touche, including $35m in untendered contracts awarded to Liberal-friendly companies, Mr. Pallister said. The stamp price hike, which will raise the price of a letter stamp for domestic mail to 50 cents – is scheduled for approval by the Treasury Board next
week, Mr. Pallister said.

Canada Post announced the price increases last June, to take effect Jan. 17.

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Tuffnells unwraps offer of jobs

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Express courier service Tuffnells has launched a recruitment drive after relocating to a new premises in Staffordshire.

The firm wants to fill various posts to expand its new GBP250,000 operation on Beacon Business Park in Stafford.

Tuffnells has relocated from a small satellite depot in Fradswell to the new site, formerly owned by the RAF.

Paul Harrison, general manager of the depot, said the relocation is a major boost for the area and the company which employs 1,500 people at its 25 depots in the UK and Ireland.

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DHL to add thousands of new drop boxes across US

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

DHL has announced that it will add thousands of new drop boxes to its network beginning in December as part of a program expected to bring the total number of DHL drop box locations in the U.S. to more than 32,000 by year-end 2005.

DHL’s drop box investment program involves the replacement of the company’s 16,000 existing U.S. drop boxes with newly constructed drop boxes characterized by a unique contour, user friendly design, and the distinctive DHL yellow and red colors. In the second phase, DHL expects to rebrand an additional 6,000 drop boxes which will be deployed to new locations in order to better meet the needs of DHL’s growing customer base. These initial phases of the program are slated for completion by April of 2005. Finally, beginning early in 2005, the company plans to introduce an additional 10,000 new drop boxes to the U.S. network.

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BTB Mailflight Acquires Mailflow International Ltd

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Ian Kavanagh, Managing Director of BTB Mailflight Ltd was today delighted to announce BTB Mailflight’s acquisition of Mailflow International Ltd.

BTB Mailflight Ltd, one of the UK’s leading international mailing houses has acquired Mailflow International to help the company accelerate towards their growth objectives.

Ian Kavanagh commented “Adding Mailflow to the BTB Mailflight Group increases our market share in the international mail arena and will further increase our buying power. This puts us in an even better position to continue to offer some of the most cost effective international mailing solutions available”.

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Report on USPS mail scanning initiative

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Doing better business was the first theme at the Unisys Air Cargo Conference this October. Hosted as usual in Nice, France, it brought together 60 senior executives from the global industry and focused on the key areas of doing better business, outsourcing, technology and alliances. Robbie Anderson, managing director Planning & Support of Continental Airlines Cargo, was the first panel speaker to address this topic. After a general overview of Continental Airlines’ route network, the fleet (including 18 B777-200s) and the company’s cargo division, he presented details of the USPS mail scanning and cargo revenue management initiatives on which his division had worked. Both initiatives had substantially improved revenues, Anderson said. “Any time we have opportunities within the cargo department to leverage margins and revenues, we get quite a bit of interest at the executive level,” Anderson said.

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Deutsche Post meets ver.di accusations

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post has defended itself against accusations by trade union ver.di that separating letter sorting and delivery will lead to a drop in quality. Ver.di says that plans by Deutsche Post to use machines to automatically sort post by 2007, instead of postal workers doing it themselves will mean workers being forced to work part-time, which in turn would lead to a drop in quality. The union has also told Deutsche Post that its workers are disenchanted and working a mountain of overtime.

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La Poste to sell tickets for SNCF

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

La Poste, the French postal service operator, is planning to sell train tickets for French rail operator SNCF with effect from 2005. It already has the necessary internet terminals in around 1,000 post offices to enable ticket reservation.

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DHL & New Zealand’s NZ Post to start joint venture

Posted by | Dec 1, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG’s express mail courier DHL is close to launching a joint venture with New Zealand’s NZ Post, Die Welt newspaper reported. It said DHL’s new head John Mullen – who replaced Uwe Doerken three weeks ago – hopes to complete the deal by the end of the year. New Zealand-Australian express mail has a sales potential of about 185 mln aud per year.

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