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IBM to bring International Postal System into the on demand era

Posted by | Apr 22, 2004 | |

IBM have announced that its consulting division, Business Consulting Services, has been awarded a contract by International Post Corporation (IPC) to help them transform and manage UNEX, an Internet-based quality measurement system for the international postal organisation. The new measurement system will allow postal operators to be more responsive and react quickly to deteriorating delivery times, and facilitates the speedy settling of accounts between the countries’ postal operators. IBM and IPC aim to have the system fully operational by 2005. In order to achieve this, more than a half-million test letters will be sent between 36 countries every year.

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New tender for Argentinean mail services

Posted by | Apr 22, 2004 | |

The Argentinean Communications Secretariat has readied the conditions of the tender to pass on the mail service Correo Argentino to a private manager. Among the conditions, the government is to hold a 5 percent minimum golden share in the company, and the winner has to pay a fee corresponding to the time that lasts the concession. The mail service concession contract with Macri group was ended on November 2003, and the new tender is to be issued until May 20th.

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US Postal Service raises bar for scanning flat-size mail

Posted by | Apr 22, 2004 | |

A new threshold for machine read barcodes on flat-size mail will be crossed on July 31. That’s the date the United States Postal Service begins to require a 90 percent rate of readability of barcodes in order to qualify for lower rates. This read rate, increased from the current 80 percent-is evaluated by the Postal Service’s MERLIN (Mailing Evaluation and Readability Lookup Instrument) system. Letter- sized mailing rates remain at 90 percent, the threshold set when MERLIN was deployed in 2001.

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Austrian Post office to cut down 1,000 jobs

Posted by | Apr 22, 2004 | |

The Austrian Post Office is to cut down 1,000 jobs in Austria this year at the same time as expanding its activities in eastern and southeastern Europe.

Post Office chief executive Anton Weis was quoted as saying his firm had already changed from “a receiver of subsidies to a payer of dividends”.

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French La Poste seeks to reassure staff over postal bank plans

Posted by | Apr 22, 2004 | |

The French postal service, La Poste, called a meeting of its administrators in an attempt to quell doubts over the creation of a postal banking service, which is due to be launched in the next year. Trade unions have expressed doubts over the plan, saying that they would prefer to see the post office create a partnership with a public-interest bank which has no retail branches, such as state-owned French bank CDC or Dexia, the Franco-Belgian banking group specialised in public finance.

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Italy postal service launches pensioners debit card

Posted by | Apr 22, 2004 | |

Italian Postal Service will launch by the end of June 2004 a pensioners’ debit card, on which the pensions can be debited directly, without having to queue up at post offices, Italy’s Postal Service CEO, Massimo Sarmi, said on April 23, 2004. The service is aimed at those pensioners who do not own a bank account. The card can be used to make purchases in shops and to withdraw cash.

The Postal Service will also launch in the near future a card to access the national health system services, Sarmi added.

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Deutsche Post says in cooperation talks with Belgium’s La Poste

Posted by | Apr 22, 2004 | |

Deutsche Post AG said it is in talks with the Belgian post office La Poste over cooperation, but has not as yet formulated any concrete plans.

Deutsche Post is in regular contact with La Poste, as with most other European postal services, regarding cooperation possibilities, a company spokesman said. Deutsche Post has always said it would be interested in cooperation and tie-ups with other European postal services, provided legal and regulatory conditions can be met and such a deal makes economic sense, he added.

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DHL Iberia To Invest 10 Mln Euro in Logistics Centre in Zaragoza

Posted by | Apr 21, 2004 | |

DHL Iberia, Spanish subsidiary of German express mail delivery group DHL, invested 10 mln euro ($11.9 mln) to build a logistics centre in Zaragoza, northeastern Spain, DHL Iberia CEO Felipe Corcuera said on April 20, 2004.

The centre has an area of 22,000 sq m. Some 6,000 sq m of the area is designed for transport and distribution premises. Premises have a capacity for 32 transport trucks and 53 delivery trucks. The centre also incorporates a logistics store of 2,200 sq m and offices with a total area of 1,800 sq m.

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