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Japan Post set to battle Yamato Transport in court

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta criticized Wednesday the move by Yamato Transport Co. filing a lawsuit to halt the state-backed entity’s tie-up with convenience store operator Lawson Inc. in handling parcels, indicating that the entity will contest the issue in court. “Though consumers are demanding better-service competition, the essence of Yamato’s complaint is aimed at preserving its vested interest in the market,” Ikuta said at a press conference. On Sept. 28, parcel delivery service provider Yamato Transport filed the lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against Japan Post, claiming that Japan Post’s parcel delivery business expansion through Lawson’s nationwide network would be “unfair” under the Antimonopoly Law as long as the entity receives preferential treatment in taxation and other areas.

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DHL talks with Belgian govt in stalemate, its departure inevitable

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG unit DHL’s talks with the Belgian government over the expansion of Brussels airport into its regional mail hub have reached stalemate, with the company’s departure ‘inevitable’, according to Belgian business daily L’Echo. ‘Discussions are sticking on the number of night flights undertaken by the large cargo planes MD11s, on the horizon in 2011,’ L’Echo reported without citing sources. ‘Too noisy for the government, irreplaceable for DHL.’ The paper said the express courier service will have no choice but to move to one of the other two airports on its shortlist. The delocalisation of the company to one of the other sites of Vatry in France or Leipzig in Germany seems practically inevitable in these conditions, the paper said.

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Latvian Mail co may co-operate with Spain in goods distribution in Baltic Sea region

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

The state-owned mail company Latvijas Pasts (Latvian Mail) has successfully started negotiations with Spanish mail company Correos y telegrafos about distribution of goods in the Baltic Sea region. Latvijas Pasts director general Gints Skodovs told BNS that his company wanted to develop its services by taking up also logistics. It has been agreed with the Spanish company that they could send to Latvia goods which Latvijas Pasts would then distributed in the Baltic states, Sweden, Russia and Poland. Skodovs said for now the two parties had agreed on specific “homework” that needs to be done for practical implementation of the cooperation discussed during talks in Spain.

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EU Commission may launch proceedings against German postal laws today

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

The European Commission is likely to launch proceedings against Germany today aimed at forcing it to open its local postal system to more competition, the Financial Times Deutschland reported citing Commission sources. The reason for the action is the German government’s refusal to give competitors of Deutsche Post AG access to the so-called ‘post-preparation services market’, the paper said. The commercial collection, sorting and franking of letters under 100 grams
is currently exclusively guaranteed to Deutsche Post under postal laws.

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The European Commission acts against the discrimination of mail preparation service providers in Germany

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

The European Commission has ruled against certain provisions in Germany’s postal regulatory framework which bar commercial mail preparation firms from earning discounts for handing over pre-sorted letters at Deutsche Post AG’s (DPAG) sorting centres. The incriminated provisions induce DPAG to discriminate against mail preparation firms: whilst large senders are allowed to feed self-prepared mail directly into sorting centres and are granted discounts for doing so, commercial firms are barred from discounts for mail preparation. Commenting on the decision, Competition Commissioner Mario Monti said: “The German Postal Law induces Deutsche Post to abuse its dominant position thereby putting commercial operators at a considerable competitive disadvantage. The Commission’s action will establish a competitive level playing field for mail preparation firms. The experience in countries where a large part of companies’ mail is outsourced shows that the overall letter and direct mail volume has increased to the benefit of all operators.”

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Prices: Poste Italiane unchanged until end of year

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

Poste Italiane, the Italian Post Offices, “aware of the government’s politics as to the buying power,” is offering a new on-line payment service for vehicle taxes without any supplement commission, until the end of the year. Poste Italiane is also engaged in maintaining the prices of all services unchanged, says an annotation from Poste Italiane with reference to the news appeared in the press.

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Williams Lea lands £225m contract

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

Williams Lea, the privately-owned business document outsourcing group, has secured a £225m contract with Norwich Union to outsource the insurance group’s document services. In a contract thought to be the largest of its kind in the financial services sector, Williams Lea will take on all Norwich Union’s laser print, mailing, archiving postal and reprographics activities for 10 years. Norwich Union’s 500 document staff will all be transferred to Williams Lea.

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City Mail market share & coverage

Posted by | Oct 20, 2004 | |

It was stated at the Lille conference by Sweden Post on 11th October 2004 that City Mail now covers forty per cent of addresses in Sweden and has twenty per cent of the mail order letters/catalogue distribution market.

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