FedEx last week began directserved flights to Greece, reducing intercontinental inbound transit times by a day. An Airbus A310 200 is operating Frankfurt/ Athens/Tel Aviv/Monaco from Tuesday to Friday , with a routing of Paris CDG/Athens/Tel Aviv/Monaco on Saturdays.
Read MoreIn a bid to challenge United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp. as the world’s top provider of express and logistics services, Deutsche Post World Net said it will merge its international and domestic parcel delivery, express and logistics operations under the DHL brand in a USD 785 million restructuring that also aims to boost earnings by 40 percent by 2005. Klaus Zumwinkel, chief executive, on Thursday said the program was the “logical conclusion” to its recent multi-billion dollar strategy to establish a European express business and build a global logistics network. “This is the decisive step towards making Deutsche Post World Net the global number one logistics provider,” the partially privatized company said in a statement.
Read MoreShort backgrounds on the five nominees for the 2004 Industry Leadership Award:
Peter Bakker – TNT Post Group/TPG
Helge Israelson – Post Denmark
Graeme John – Australia Post
Jack Potter – USPS
Elmar Toime – Royal Mail
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At the recent IEA postal conference, Guy Buswell of Business Post reported that UK Mail was positioning its business class service between first and second class. They will sort to the 120 mail centres or the 1400 delivery centres, collect between 1600 and 1930 and deliver to the centres between 0830 and 12 noon next day. There will be some interesting new joint marketing initiatives with Royal Mail and there will be penalty clauses in the contract relationship with Royal Mail. On the parcels side he reported a 50% increase in home delivery and that Business Post carries out 50% of FedEx’ collection and deliveries in the UK.
Read MorePost offices should be modeled on convenience stores and sell a variety of items, from financial products to household goods, according to proposals being drawn up by the Cabinet Office. The proposals are part of government plans to privatize the three postal operations — mail, savings and life insurance — currently offered by Japan Post. By easing regulations on post offices, the government aims to allow privatized postal operations to earn revenue and improve profitability. Currently, post offices can sell only products related to postal services.
Read MorePoints on the Poste Italiane presentation by Mostafa Elshorbagi at the IEA conference in Amsterdam.
summary by Paul Jackson
45% of revenue is now financial products, 47% postal products
direct mail market in Italy is 23% of UK and interested in developing it
their philosophy is to differentiate products by category of customer, develop tailor-made products for each sector and stimulate retail demand
they have 18% of the express courier market, growing at 3%. Very keen to develop new products and new markets.
keen to develop hybrid mail and also an electronic platform extending into direct mail marketing
would like to develop postecom abroad.
New Zealand Post’s revelation that it is considering selling a half-share in its courier business to German-owned DHL has prompted the interest of the country’s other big courier operator.
“If the Government is going to start selling parts of NZ Post, we’re interested in having a look,” Freightways managing director Dean Bracewell said.
Read MoreHungary will increase the price of postal services by an average 10 percent from March 16, the Ministry of Telecommunications said.
The price hike will affect all types of postal services, but not telecom fees, which are regulated separately and don’t fall under the authority of post office Magyar Posta.
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