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US Mailers’ Group Urges Sweeping Postal Reform

Posted by | Feb 25, 2004 | |

The U.S. Postal Service is in “financial and systemic distress,” a coalition of mailers said in a letter delivered to four members of the House of Representatives.

“True postal reform can be achieved only through a comprehensive set of measures … that address the difficult, yet crucial, issues of cost control and regulatory oversight,” said Robert Walker, head of Postal Reform in the Public Interest and one of nine members of the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service last year, in the letter.

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Russian Post boosts image in cyberspace

Posted by | Feb 24, 2004 | |

The Russian Post is now opening a completely new page in its history. These were the words of Igor Syrtsov, general director of the postal service that has traditionally been seen as a weak state system unable to seriously affect how its work is organized and famous for considerably low service quality.

Syrtsov spoke of revamping the Russian Post at the unveiling of its CyberMoney project. The project, officially launched late last month, forms a unified federal system of electronic postal money orders and was initiated by the Communications Ministry and the Electronic Russia program.

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Ukraine Postal Service net profits up

Posted by | Feb 24, 2004 | |

In 2003, the net profits of Ukrposhta, Ukraine’s national postal service, were UAH 7.5 million, up 44% over the previous year, Vasyl Mukhin, the company director general, told journalists. Over the year, the company’s gross revenue rose by UAH 1.44 billion, a 7.8% increase over 2002 levels, Mukhin said.

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Ghana Post to re-introduce Postal Service Banking

Posted by | Feb 24, 2004 | |

Mr. Nicholas Dery, Deputy Manager Operations and Development of the Ghana Post (GP) has said the Service is undertaking radical re-structuring and re-capitalisation, with a view to modernising service delivery.
He said appropriate technology had been procured to automate and network all counters in the country to facilitate easy transactions and efficient services.

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Bonaiuti pledges to spread Italian postal discounts

Posted by | Feb 24, 2004 | |

The government pledges to extend publishing funds to smaller publishers. Cabinet undersecretary Paolo Bonaiuti stressed his thanks to the opposition for their positive contributions: “since we all understand the value of domestic postal discounts we worked behind closed doors in an attempt to reconcile the wider interests of the sector. September seems an ideal time to verify actual fund availability. I hope that on that on that occasion we can set forth new legislative proposals which as of next year may well encompass trusts and socials services. We have striven to provide greater coverage for NGO’s and other non profit organisations. Fund could not be attributed to publications with a high publicity content. That alone would have cost us an extra 60-70 million euro”.

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European Parliament shuns VAT on postal services

Posted by | Feb 24, 2004 | |

MEPs have again rejected a proposal to add VAT to postal services across the EU.

The law, which would lift a VAT exemption on postal services agreed in the 1970s was rejected in the parliament’s economic committee by 16 votes to 12 with two abstentions. A plenary vote of the full European Parliament will now be held on March 10, after which national governments will consider their position.

MEPs have already rejected the draft in a plenary vote on December 15 but the commission refused to withdraw proposals.

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