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UPS to open 500 branches of Mail Boxes Etc in Spain

Posted by | Mar 29, 2004 | |

UPS, the US courier group, plans to open 500 branches of its Mail Boxes subsidiary in Spain in three years. The subsidiary, bought three years ago, specialises in postal services and office and stationery products, and has 4,600 outlets worldwide and 97 in Spain. UPS does not provide its profit and turnover figures in Spain, where it has had a presence since 1990. According to the Spanish companies’ register however, sales in 2002 were 114.5m euros, up 12.37 per cent.

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Post Office financial services ‘Open for Business’

Posted by | Mar 29, 2004 | |

Financial services products are now available from the Post Office®. The new Post Office® unsecured personal loan is the first product launched by the joint venture between Post Office Ltd and Bank of Ireland and will utilise the Post Office’s® 16,500 branches – one of the largest retail networks in Europe.

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Fulfillment’s growing demand changing for the better with postal reform

Posted by | Mar 29, 2004 | |

As corporate print buyers choose to do business with fewer and fewer vendors, they expect these vendors to provide more and more complementary services. Mailing services are expanding into fulfillment services. Third-party fulfillment (3PFs) vendors are adding digital printing. General commercial printers are adding both mailing and fulfillment services. Is there room for all these vendors?

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Post Office enters UK phone and loans market

Posted by | Mar 29, 2004 | |

The Post Office is planning to launch a new residential phone service to rival BT in a bid to replicate the recent success of alternative operators such as Carphone Warehouse and Tesco. It is also pressing ahead with plans for new financial services products aimed at stealing market share from the big banks and building societies.

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Hays DX Ireland moves into profit before post dispute

Posted by | Mar 29, 2004 | |

Business mail delivery group Hays DX has moved into profit even ahead of the current postal dispute, according to accounts filed recently.

Hays DX (Ireland), which operates a document exchange, courier service and business mail delivery, recorded an operating profit of EUR154,000 in the year to the end of June 2003. That is a significant turnaround on losses of EUR56,000 in the previous financial year.

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House, Senate leaders urged to make US postal reform a priority

Posted by | Mar 29, 2004 | |

Despite strong bipartisan support for overhauling the Postal Service, congressional leaders are not making legislation enough of a priority, House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., said Monday. He said leaders in the House and Senate are “unenthusiastic” about moving a bill. “They’re saying, ‘Yeah, if the committee reports out a bill, we’ll try to take it up,'” Davis told a meeting of the National Association of Postal Supervisors. That attitude is at odds with “the strong support, by both Republicans and Democrats, in both the House and the Senate [government operations committees] to pass reform this year,” Davis said.

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No sign of Irish postal dispute end as talks deadlocked

Posted by | Mar 29, 2004 | |

There was still no sign of a breakthrough in the postal dispute last night as the Labour Relations Commission (LRC) maintained informal contact with both sides in an effort to broker a resolution.Although behind the scenes efforts to find some middle ground will recommence today, neither An Post’s management nor the Communications Workers Union (CWU) indicated any willingness to compromise yesterday. Separate talks between both sides and the LRC last week broke down with LRC chief executive Kieran Mulvey saying there was not enough middle ground even to get both sides into structured talks. A spokesman for the company last night said that there was no reason to believe anything would change An Post’s position until workers agreed to new work practices.

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