The government should maintain the current universal postal services throughout the nation even after the privatisation of Japan Post, according to a draft proposal by a government panel.
The draft is expected to be endorsed by the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy, a key economic policy-setting panel.
Read MoreTalks on a recovery plan for loss-making An Post have resumed at the Labour Relations Commission.
A range of issues, including collection and delivery, are due to be tackled over the next month under talks chairman Tom Pomphrett.
Read MoreSolystic, the French producer of postal sorting machines, has won a 62m-euro contract within a consortium to supply four new sorting centres and reorganise a fifth one for the Belgian postal service. The contract also includes a five-year maintenance service for a further 36m euros.
Read MoreThe state postal operator Lietuvos Pastas (Lithuanian Post) has reported a 39.2 percent rise to 8.3 million litas (EUR 2.4 mln) in pretax earnings for 2003.
The company has said that its full-year revenues grew by 6 percent to 151.2 million litas last year, of which 61.9 percent came from mail services, 22.2 percent from financial services, 3.14 percent from courier services.
Read MoreDeutsche Post AG has acquired the remaining thirty percent share in Interlanden from Koninklijke Wegener NV. This transaction ties in with the expectations that were expressed when Wegener sold seventy percent of Interlanden to Deutsche Post in July 2002. Interlanden is one of the most important players in the field of distributing unaddressed advertising materials in the Netherlands.
Read MoreRoyal Mail is reviewing the licensing agreements for its Postal Address File (PAF). Industry insiders warn that it could see the company own all data which has been validated against the file.
The proposals follow Royal Mail’s failed court case against 192.com for using correct names and addresses in its directory products after validating its information against PAF.
Read MoreLa Poste, the French public postal services group, is expected to announce satisfactory results for 2003, despite the industrial action in the spring of the year. The group will reportedly post a group net profit of 202m euros, compared with 34m in 2002.
Read MoreRoyal Wegener NV said it has sold the remaining 30 pct in its joint venture Interlanden to Deutsche Post AG.
Deutsche Post now holds 100 pct of the Dutch mail company. Interlanden delivers unaddressed advertising materials and has around 500 employees.
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