Mail chiefs have admitted they could be forced to pass on higher delivery costs to business customers in Edinburgh unless they can win an exemption from the city’s planned road tolls.
Royal Mail have told city chiefs it will be among the worst hit by the introduction of road tolls, and claims it could add at least GBP 150,000 to the cost of its business delivery operation every year.
Read MoreState-run postal service company Slovenska Posta will transform into a 100-Percent state-run joint stock company as of May 1, 2004. According to Jaroslav Dobrotka, director general of Slovenska Posta, the transformation will also involve internal restructuring of the company, reducing the number of the company’s levels of management.
Read MoreAs he steps down from Postcomm, Graham Corbett gives Edward Simpkins a rare insight into his battles with Government and Royal Mail.
Read MoreMajor transport company Nippon Express Co. plans to launch a special mail delivery service, possibly within 2004, informed sources said.
The company has already submitted an application for a business license to the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, which may approve it.
Nippon Express would become the first major transport firm to begin special mail deliveries since April last year when the government allowed private firms to handle mail delivery on certain conditions, including delivery within three hours.
Read MoreImproved Express Mail Service (EMS) in the nation’s four major conurbations featuring enhanced user-friendliness and lower stamp costs, the public corporation said. ‘There is no reason whatsoever to revise the price control system which worked well in the past and led to extremely low postal rates for the consumer… Over a period of twelve years, corrected for inflation, the price of a postage stamp has decreased by 30 pct.’
Read MoreThe French parliament’s economic affairs commission is planning to introduce an amendment to the bill concerning reforms to the French post office, La Poste, when the legislation is debated by the French senate. If it is adopted, the amendment will enable La Poste to set up a credit institution governed by existing law. Such a reform would effectively turn the French post office into a financial institution like any other in France, with the right to provide consumer credit.
Read MoreCustomers of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) will be able to conduct basic bank transactions at more than 1,200 post offices nationwide by the third quarter of this year.
The country’s fourth largest bank signed an agreement with Thailand Post to set up bank branches at the latter’s post offices – to boost SCB’s customer base and reduce operational costs.
Read MoreTrade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt has announced clearance of the completed acquisition by March UK Ltd (March) of the home shopping and home delivery businesses of GUS plc (GUS). The Competition Commission’s (CC’s) report into the merger is published.
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