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Fortec completes barcoding facility

Posted by | Sep 13, 2004 | |

The Fortec Pallet Distribution Network expects to complete the construction of a new barcoding facility this month, adjadcent to its central hub facility near Rugby. After entering the scanning facility – one and half times the size of an artic lorry – vehicles will pull back their curtains and then a freight checker on either side will move up and down the walkway to scan loads. Fortec development director Alan Cramley said this would remove potential bottlenecks at the hub entrance.

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Labor promises not to sell-off Australia Post

Posted by | Sep 13, 2004 | |

Labor today promised that Australia Post would remain in full public ownership, while guaranteeing the price of a 50 cent stamp would not rise in its first term of office. Opposition communications spokesman Lindsay Tanner said Labor would retain Australia Post’s Community Service Obligations in full to ensure that all customers continued to receive a standard letter service at the same price. “A Labor government will retain Australia Post in full public ownership so it can continue to deliver decent postal services to all Australians,” he said.

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Crozier cuts back UK Royal Mail board

Posted by | Sep 13, 2004 | |

Royal Mail’s chief executive, Adam Crozier, has cut its management board from 11 to eight members in an attempt to make it more efficient. Paul Rich, marketing director, Paul Bateson, managing director of logistics and Vanessa Leeson, managing director of Parcelforce, have left the board, as Mr Crozier seeks to prepare Royal Mail for competition. They will remain with the company. Mr Crozier has also tightened his grip on the company by replacing Elmar Toime, Royal Mail’s executive deputy chairman, as chairman of the management board, although he remains a board member. Mr Crozier took over day-to-day running of the letters business from Mr Toime in May. Royal Mail declined to comment, but a source close to the company said: “This is Adam Crozier consolidating his authority. He took direct control of the largest bit of the business and is forming a smaller, tighter board. It would be really wrong to blame the quality of service on these three individuals.”

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Slow down in Belgian snail mail

Posted by | Sep 13, 2004 | |

The volume of mail sent in Belgium has dropped by 200 million units over the last two years, it emerged on Monday. The drastic fall in mail delivery is a result of the recent economic situation and the rise in emails and text messages, reported De Standaard and Het Volk. Classical mail delivery accounts for 81 percent of postal service business. The financial blow to the postal service has been softened by a rise in prices.

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More rises likely as Guernsey Post losses continue

Posted by | Sep 13, 2004 | |

Managing director Mike Hall said that the commercialised utility expected to record another loss this year. And postal charges are likely to increase again within 18 months. The company last week revealed that it turned a £1.6m. profit in its first year of freedom from States control into a loss of more than £800,000 in the year to the end of September 2003. But Mr Hall said that the utility, which was battling against rising costs passed on from the Royal Mail, should break even in 2005.

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Deutsche Post director says interested in stake in Italy’s post operator

Posted by | Sep 12, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post AG director Peter Kruse said his company could be interested in taking a stake in Italy’s postal operator Le Poste in any privatisation by the government. In comments cited by Il Sole 24 Ore Saturday, Kruse said that first there will have to be a political consensus on privatising the postal operator, like there has been in Germany. ‘We have still not seen any official announcement, but it is surely the case that we are ready to consider it attentively,’ he said, referring to any privatisation in Italy. Deutsche Post is watching developments in other European countries, he said.

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Postal service axed in Aer Lingus costs drive

Posted by | Sep 12, 2004 | |

Aer Lingus is to axe its postal and courier service to Britain and Europe from January as part of its ongoing drive to compete with other low-cost carriers.
Chief executive Willie Walsh told An Post management late last week that he had decided to drop its mail and courier deliveries from European flights in addition to cargo services from January 1. Aer Lingus carries about four million items of mail for An Post to Britain and Europe each week, both commercial and domestic. An Post’s director of corporate and regulatory affairs, Larry Donald, warned that the decision could impact on its own cost base. “It could have serious implications in terms of cost and also the quality of service, and it could also have implications for delays both for inbound and outbound post, depending on the availability of alternative flights,” Donald said.

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UK Royal Mail trio pay the price for postal failure

Posted by | Sep 12, 2004 | |

Royal Mail boss Adam Crozier will this week dismiss three key figures from his front-line management team in an aggressive response to a recent slump in service standards. Crozier has also tightened his personal grip on the company by installing himself as chairman of the committee which has day-to-day responsibility for the running of Royal Mail. Sources close to Royal Mail said marketing director Paul Rich, logistics chief Paul Bateson and Parcelforce boss Vanessa Leeson had been removed from the management board, leaving it with eight members. Former Football Association boss Crozier has also replaced Royal Mail’s executive deputy chairman, New Zealander Elmar Toime, as chairman of the committee following rumours of a difficult working relationship between the two men. In May, Crozier took day-to-day control of Royal Mail’s letters business from Toime.

Among the directors who remain on the management committee are Post Office chief executive David Mills, finance chief Marisa Cassoni and human resources director Tony McCarthy.

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