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US Postal Service to use SAP HR software

Posted by | Aug 23, 2004 | |

SAP America Inc has won a USD35 million contract to replace the U.S. Postal Service’s 25-year-old human resources software.

The contract covers USD14 million in license and maintenance fees for the MySAP Business Suite and USD21 million in services from the company’s professional group.

Postal officials hired SAP’s professional services group to oversee the transition to a new HR system. The postal agency will run the new software on mainframe Z990 processors and Linux SUSE, both from IBM Corp.

With 700,000 employees, USPS represents a sizeable but not unprecedented win for SAP.

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Poste Italiane 2004 balance expected to be positive

Posted by | Aug 23, 2004 | |

The CEO of Poste Italiane s.p.a, Massimo Sarni speaking in Rimini during a debate at Rimini’s meeting of Comunione and Liberazione movement said that after 2002 and 2003 the balance of the Italian mail service would be positive also in 2004. According to Sarmi “with 15 or 16 million of electronic transactions per day and after the deal with Microsoft the Italian mail service is bettering the level of modernity of its structures and offices. The company would be the first information network of Italy very soon. The Italian mail services spends 800 million euro per year in resources for ameliorating its offices, customer services and call centres. The Italian mail service has 153,000 employees and is training them. There are 3,000,000 days of training per year with the goal to extend them to the 40,000 postmen of the company.

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UK Royal Mail faces huge fine over late letters

Posted by | Aug 23, 2004 | |

Royal Mail was under renewed pressure as it admitted one in five first-class letters is delivered late.

The company faces a huge fine from regulator Postcomm, as well as a compensation bill which could run into tens of millions of pounds.

In a report to be published this month it is expected to reveal it failed to meet any of its 15 targets for deliveries

between April and June. This follows an apology from chief executive Adam Crozier after it missed all targets for the year to the end of March.

Andy Frewin, from pressure group Postwatch, said: “This is simply a fiasco. The service continues to deteriorate and we need the company to get a grip.”

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UK Royal Mail admits to first class failure

Posted by | Aug 23, 2004 | |

The Royal Mail is set to report that its ability to deliver first-class letters the following day has been getting worse, despite its decision to drop the second post.

The company – increasingly the subject of privatisation talk – will admit that in the first three months of its financial year it has missed all 15 of its service quality targets.

The most important one – next day delivery for first class post – will show its success rate falling from 90.1percent in 2003-2004 to 88.2percent, way short of its 92.5percent goal.

The deteriorating service will be blamed on unprecedented upheaval as private sector directors of the organisation seek to change service, staff and transport arrangements at the same time.

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Secret signals that point to Royal Mail plc

Posted by | Aug 22, 2004 | |

Those unfamiliar with this Government’s penchant for saying one thing in public then doing exactly the opposite behind closed doors might start to wonder what on earth the Department of Trade and Industry is playing at over the future structure of Royal Mail. Leaders of Royal Mail’s still powerful unions think the answer is already clear. They believe the Government has given them cast-iron guarantees that it will remain in public ownership in return for a GBP1 million bung into the Labour Party’s coffers and support at the next election. But now the Mail on Sunday has learnt that the DTI, the department responsible for this huge national asset, has officials deployed full-time looking at alternative forms of ownership. Regular talks have been held with investment bankers, Royal Mail executives and Richard Gillingwater, head of the Shareholder Executive, which looks after the state’s business interests.

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Japanese Takenaka aware of possible delay in full postal privatisation

Posted by | Aug 22, 2004 | |

Economic and fiscal policy minister Heizo Takenaka on Sunday indicated he understands the need for a possible delay in dividing postal services into several entities by 2007 when the privatisation process starts.

He made the comments on a TV Asahi news program as he referred to the concerns raised by Japan Post and the posts ministry that it is difficult to start the privatisation process with fully divided entities due to computer system-related problems.

Japan Post, created in April 2003 as a government-backed corporation, and the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications insist that a quasi-governmental corporation handle the planned four business areas for a while.

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Rivals fret as China Post unveils fast delivery bid

Posted by | Aug 21, 2004 | |

Foreign express freight operators on the mainland have voiced fair-play concerns over a new service launched by China Post to try to regain lost market share.

China Post lost its monopoly under World Trade Organisation competition rules which allowed foreign companies access to the mainland market two years ago.

China Post’s share of the burgeoning express delivery market has slumped from 97 per cent to under 40 per cent in the face of competition from DHL, FedEx, UPS and TNT.

Now China Post is fighting back with a new all-night freight service between 136 cities in 27 provinces. The service, without any increase in charges, will also focus on fast turnaround links between the hub of Shanghai and six major urban areas: Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen, Shenyang and Weifang.

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DHL forms association with Mexican Bancomext

Posted by | Aug 20, 2004 | |

Jorge Ehnrenwald, director of Marketing at DHL, said that the mail company has formed an association with the National Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext) in order to provide integral logistics solutions for small and medium-sized companies.

The executive said that the association was part of a project that DHL and Bancomext have been working on since 2002. He also mentioned that when a small company approaches Bancomext for advice on transport of goods, it will be directed towards DHL who will try to come up with solutions.

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