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Japanese Postal privatisation backed by 38 percent

Only 38 percent of people surveyed support a Cabinet blueprint for the privatisation of the state-run postal services, while 81 percent want the government to direct its efforts elsewhere, according to a nationwide survey conducted Sept. 11 and 12 by The Yomiuri Shimbun.

Meanwhile, 25 percent of respondents said they opposed a blueprint to privatise the three postal services adopted by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s Cabinet on Sept. 10.

Those in support of the plan have decreased by 17 percentage points since a similar survey was conducted in August 2001. People opposing the scheme grew by one percentage point during the same period.

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‘FedEx’s backyard’ makes sense for DHL US hub

Billed as a competitive alternative to FedEx and UPS, DHL announced this week it will open a USD3 million sort center in Memphis this fall.

The company has leased about 23,000 square feet at 3035 Bellbrook Drive where it will employ 29 people and have capacity to sort 7,500 packages and letters an hour.

Selecting Memphis for the hub made sense for several reasons, said Dan McDonald, head of DHL network planning.

“Memphis is geographically in the center of the country,” McDonald said. “FedEx found it works for them and that we’re in FedEx’s backyard is just icing on the cake.”

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Germans court NZ Post

New Zealand Post is talking up its prospects of selling half of its Courier Post and other express freight businesses to Deutsche Post-owned DHL. The sale would give the Government a financial windfall and link NZ Post to a global player that has been expanding in Asia. It would also put Deutsche Post in the box seat in any future privatisation of NZ Post. The rundown on the potential joint venture came as NZ Post reported a 35 per cent rise in annual profit to NZD 36.5 million yesterday, handing the Government a NZD 21.9 million dividend.

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Belgian govt confident DHL to locate European mail hub in Brussels

The Belgian government remains confident that Deutsche Post World Net AG’s express mail unit DHL will decide to set up its European mail centre in Brussels, and will announce the outcome of negotiations with local residents protesting the expansion of the national airport on Tuesday, a government spokesman said. The Belgian authorities have been at loggerheads with local residents, who are trying to block the expansion because of the extra noise and night flights created by an enlarged airport. Asked whether the government would succeed in securing DHL’s multi-million euro investment, the spokesman for Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, Didier Seews, said: ‘We are looking at both the noise pollution of night flights and the imperative of expansion to find a balance between ecology and economics.’ ‘It will work,’ he said, when asked whether a compromise could be found ahead of next Tuesday’s crunch announcement.

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French postal union fear job cuts in La Poste shake-up

According to France‘s postal unions, the proposed overhaul of the French post office network could result in the closure of up to 6,000 post offices. The French postal services operator, La Poste, is carrying out the review on the orders of the French government, which wants the state-owned operator to reduce its running costs. At present La Poste has a total of 17,000 post offices and sub-post offices.

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New Zealand Post to sell half of Courier Post to Deutsche Post-owned DHL

New Zealand Post is talking up its prospects of selling half of its Courier Post and other express freight businesses to Deutsche Post-owned DHL.

The sale would give the Government a financial windfall and link NZ Post to a global player that has been expanding in Asia.

It would also put Deutsche Post in the box seat in any future privatisation of NZ Post.

The rundown on the potential joint venture came as NZ Post reported a 35 per cent rise in annual profit to NZD36.5 million yesterday, handing the Government a NZD21.9 million dividend.

Postal companies are responding to threats to their traditional mail operation from deregulation and new technologies by expanding into new areas of business and new geographies.

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US mailer groups question timing of Potter remarks

Mailer groups blasted the timing of Postmaster General Jack Potter’s reiteration of the US Postal Service’s commitment to hold postage rates steady until 2006. They fear it could delay passage of reform legislation that’s now before Congress. Potter said the USPS could delay rate hikes because the USPS has already cut USD8.3 billion in costs over the past three years. At a Sept. 14 meeting of the postal Board of Governors in Boston, USPS CFO Richard Strasser said the postal service planned to trim another USD1.4 billion, which includes a reduction of 23 million work hours. “Potter made this statement just as Congress was coming back into session and the National Postal Forum was coming into town for their meeting,” said Neal Denton, executive director of the National Alliance of Nonprofit Mailers. “It might give some people the impression that postal reform isn’t needed so urgently.”

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