Mr Nicholas Dery, Deputy Manager Operations and Development of the Ghana Post (GP), on Saturday said the Service was 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.
Read MoreDeutsche Post AG, Europe’s largest postal service, plans to slow plans to reduce the number of mailboxes in Germany to appease customer criticism, spokesman Manfred Hanischfeger said.
Deutsche Post plans to keep at least 100,000 mailboxes in Germany until 2007, the newspaper reported, without stating the previous reduction target. Deutsche Post had 140,000 mailboxes last year.
Read MoreJapan Post expects to secure roughly 15 billion yen in net profit from its postal delivery operations for the current fiscal year, taking just half the time to achieve an initial target of 14 billion yen net profit, sources at the public corporation said.
The projected profit size means that postal operations will return to the black for the first time in two year. Japan Post was created last April 1 to take over the governmental Postal Services Agency.
Read MoreTNT launches major strategy review
Read MoreAuditor PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has refused to endorse the 2003 annual report of TNT Post Group (TPG) because the company has been unable to reach an agreement with the British taxman on an outstanding claim. According to TPG’s CEO Peter Bakker, the investigation into the claim, which dates back to the late nineties and could cost the company up to Eur40m.
Read MoreThe US DMA has welcomed fresh moves by the government to overhaul the country’s postal operations, amid claims that the service must change or crumble.
The House of Representatives’ government reform committee held a special panel on postal reform to hear the concerns of the mailing sector over the future of the US Postal Service. The direct marketing industry is calling for the USPS to be given a facelift in response to the introduction of new media channels, such as email marketing and e-commerce.
Read MoreTPG, the Dutch postal and logistics group planning to make deep inroads into Royal Mail’s monopoly over letters delivery in the UK, has launched an investigation into the tax affairs of a British subsidiary.
The UK unit, a holding company that is part of the TNT express delivery business, has been in dispute with the Inland Revenue since the late 1990s over the fiscal treatment of its earnings.
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