Competition over parcels, the real growth area of the air express business these days, has become a major sticking point on a law that restructure the way the USPS handles its business and its role in the marketplace.
Groups representing package shippers say the private express carriers successfully pushed a House committee to add new requirements on the USPS that would put the Postal Service disadvantage in the parcel delivery market.
TPG CEO Peter Bakker presented the report ‘Better Care for Less’ to the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Hans Hoogervorst and to the Dutch Hospital Association (NVZ) and the Order of Medical Specialists. At the request of the minister and the hospitals, under the Better Faster project TPG has investigated the healthcare sector from its professional logistics point of view.
The report shows that logistics improvements can go hand-in-hand with major improvements in quality.
Read MoreTPG CEO Peter Bakker has presented the report ‘Better Care for Less’ to
the Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Hans Hoogervorst and to the Dutch
Hospital Association (NVZ) and the Order of Medical Specialists. At the
request of the minister and the hospitals, under the Better Faster project TPG
has investigated the healthcare sector from its professional logistics point of
view.
The South African Post Office has exceeded its target of reaching break-even at operating level in the year to end-March and will be well on the way to financial independence if it resolves its huge postretirement medical aid liability this year.
The company has long been a drain on the fiscus, with a controversial failed management contract with New Zealand Post, widespread postal crime and poor delivery standards forcing government to reinstate a R1,5bn three-year subsidy in 2001-02.
Read MoreThe private equity firm HG Capital is understood to be preparing a pounds 250m bid for the DX Mail business of the recruitment specialist Hays, which last week said it was planning to demerge it as a separately listed stock market company. DX specialises in business-to-business mail services in the UK and Irish Republic, delivering more than 1 million items a day and employing 1,200 people. The company expects to benefit from the recent deregulation of the UK postal market.
Read MoreLiberalization of public services has led to a massive loss of Austrian jobs, said a study by the Workers Chamber (AK).
In the past ten years the public services, facing increased competition, had laid off tens of thousands of workers while at the same time the new private companies had only employed a few hundred.
Read MoreThe German antitrust authority has ruled that Deutsche Post, the country’s postal service operator, has not violated current competition law in its delivery of supplements. It has decided against bringing court proceedings following complaints against the postal service operator by press publishing associations BDZV and BVDA.
Read MoreDeutsche Post set the subscription price for new shares in its banking unit Postbank, in a flotation marked by tensions with Deutsche Bank, Germany’s biggest bank.
Deutsche Post, the semi-privatised German postal authority, said it put the price at between 31.50 and 36.50 euros for the June 7-18 subscription period for the initial public offering (IPO).
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