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Strikes loom for Belgium Postal and Transport sectors

Posted by | Oct 8, 2004 | |

Workers at Belgium’s post office and public transport companies are threatening to strike later this month.

On Thursday, unions representing workers at Brussels public transport coperator STIB said they would hold a 24-hour strike on 21 October, starting at 10pm.

The group stated there was an “enormous lack of communication in the whole company” and complained of ‘inhuman’ policies, such as the regrading of workers’ jobs, sackings and a “subjective interpretation of agreements”.

Post office unions have also called a strike, this time for 15 October.

The unions are reportedly angered that post office managers are against implementing a 36-hour working week.

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UK Royal Mail shuffles board of directors

Posted by | Oct 8, 2004 | |

Royal Mail has reshuffled its board of directors ahead of an intensification of competition in the UK postal market.

The state-owned group has appointed Lady Margaret Prosser, a Labour peer and prominent trade unionist, as a non-executive director.

Meanwhile, Elmar Toime, executive deputy chairman, will leave the company and the board shortly “to pursue opportunities as a consultant to the international postal sector”, Royal Mail said.

He was demoted in May when Adam Crozier, chief executive, took over Mr Toime’s day-to-day responsibility for the letters business following widespread criticism of reliability.

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Deutsche Post and TPG aiming for consolidation of the European market

Posted by | Oct 8, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post, the German mail, express and logistics giant, and Dutch rival TPG are taking stakes in foreign firms in deals aimed at kick-starting the consolidation of the European market. Deutsche Post said it is taking a 38 percent stake in Spanish postal company Unipost and TPG is close to finalising the acquisition of a 25 percent holding in Post Danmark, Denmark’s state postal monopoly.

Deutsche Post, which owns DHL, the global courier company, didn’t disclose the price it is paying for its stake in Barcelona-based Unipost, which specialises in delivering business mail in Spain and had sales last year of USD78.5 million.
TPG, parent of TNT, the global express carrier, said it has made a non-binding preliminary bid for a stake in Post Danmark.

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TNT Logistics UK joins DLS for logistics bid

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

TNT Logistics UK, a business unit of the global logistics company TPG, has agreed with the shareholders of Defence Logistic Solutions (DLS) to take a 20 per cent shareholding in DLS, which is bidding for the UK MoD Defence Logistics Organisation’s Future Defence Supply Chain initiative, a programme to streamline logistics for the UK armed forces. TNT Logistics UK is providing a team of equipment and logistics specialists to the DLS team in bidding for FDSCi. The other shareholders are BAE Systems (now including Alvis; formerly a shareholder in their own right) and Westland Helicopters.

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Pallet-Track to Germany

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

Pallet-Track has signed a partnership with German pallet network VTL to ofer a daily service to the country. It is also holding talks with similar organisations in France and the Czech Republic.

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US Postal Service lauded at global postal conference

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

The U.S. Postal Service has gained international recognition for on-time delivery performance and customer care for its Global Express Mail (GEM) service. Paul Vogel, USPS vice president of Network Operations Management, accepted an award for GEM in Bucharest, Romania, at the 23rd Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress, a gathering attended by members of postal services worldwide. GEM, one of the Postal Service’s expedited international mail delivery offerings, provides fast service to 18 countries.

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The International AddressGuide – now published with eastern European countries

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

The cross-border sourcing of addresses for direct mailing is becoming easier for eastern European countries: the new edition of the International AddressGuide from Swiss Post International now also includes, alongside the existing 15 countries in western Europe, new entries for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia. The AddressGuide lists 500 providers from 20 countries and describes what they have to offer, with key figures such as the number of company addresses, decision-makers, private addresses, selection criteria, and the extent of their special address databases. To help users evaluate potential suppliers, the guide provides information such as year of establishment and number of employees. For each country, it also contains an outline of the address market with detailed information on prices, data protection, return rates, address formats and the correct salutations.

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New non-executive director appointed to Royal Mail

Posted by | Oct 7, 2004 | |

Baroness Margaret Prosser has been appointed as a new Non-Executive Director of Royal Mail. She will take up the post later this month.

DTI Minister Gerry Sutcliffe said:

“Margaret Prosser will be an excellent addition to the Royal Mail team.

“Her wealth of experience in industrial relations and diversity issues gives the Board a new dimension that will be good for the company and its workforce.”

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