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ITU, India and UPU partnership helps Bhutan bridge the digital divide

Posted by | Jan 16, 2004 | |

The Government of India, in partnership with two UN agencies, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU), will help boost the delivery of e-post services to citizens in the least accessible parts of its south Asian neighbour, Bhutan with a package of equipment, satellite capacity and training resources worth some USD 450,000. The resulting e-post service will allow people without computers in remote areas to send e-mail between post offices for printing and delivery.

India will help Bhutan’s E-Shabtog venture by providing instant connectivity to six more remote post offices that are not connected by the national fixed telecommunication network. Two of the stations, Laya and Lunana, are located over 5,000 metres above sea level, are snowbound for 8 months of the year, lack of electricity and paved roads and are a 5-8 day walk from the nearest road.

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Correo Argentino bankruptcy suspended

Posted by | Jan 16, 2004 | |

An Argentine commercial appeals court has suspended the bankruptcy of national postal concessionaire Correo Argentino SA after a successful appeal by the company, the mail service’s holding company announced. Correo Argentino’s owner, public service and infrastructure group Sideco Americana, filed a statement to the Buenos Aires stock exchange saying the bankruptcy decision handed down on Dec. 16 has been suspended on a successful appeal by Correo Argentino. In December, when a judge declared the postal service officially bankrupt, the court also issued an order prohibiting company directors from leaving the country. Sideco Americana didn’t specify whether this ruling was also suspended.

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German Jungheinrich Group and Lynx Express ‘close partnership’ praised

Posted by | Jan 15, 2004 | |

The ‘remarkably close partnership’ between Lynx Express and its customer, fork lift truck manufacturer the Jungheinrich Group, has been singled out for praise in helping the German company win two major categories in the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards.

Jungheinrich took the award in the Engineering and General Manufacturing category and capped this success by being awarded the Overall Winner of the 2003 Awards.

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TNT Express Services opens new UK midland centre

Posted by | Jan 15, 2004 | |

Delivery group TNT Express Services is creating up to 120 new jobs following a GBP1.5 million investment in a new call centre at Lount in Leicestershire The company, which claims to be the fastest and most reliable business-to-business express courier service in the UK, is gearing up to cope with rising numbers of calls from customers.

The new complex is working in tandem with an existing TNT call centre in Atherstone, Warwickshire, to meet growing demand from businesses wanting to use the company’s national and international services.

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USPS Launches innovative management pay system

Posted by | Jan 15, 2004 | |

U.S. Postmaster General John E. Potter, working with Postal Service employee groups, has launched an innovative pay system for 70,000 management employees that uses goals and performance indicators to determine the size of their annual raises. Potter is betting the pay-for-performance system will spur most postmasters, managers and supervisors to continually improve mail operations because they will have a chance to earn bigger raises than in the past. “If our people are happy, our customers will be happy because service will be up, and costs will be down,” he said.

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Time for MaltaPost to deliver

Posted by | Jan 15, 2004 | |

The postal service has been showing signs of inefficiency for quite some time but the way mail was handled over the Christmas period showed serious faults and strengthened the general view that there is need for a serious review of the service. Turning the posts department into a company was meant to make the postal service more, not less, efficient. At least that is what privatisation is expected to deliver. In the case of the posts, it has failed to do this.

Reasons given by the chief executive officer for the fact that Maltapost was “caught on the wrong foot” over the festive period only helped to confirm the company’s bad planning. The CEO, Robert Lake, gave as factors insufficient time to settle down to changes launched in September, a different mailing pattern than that anticipated by the company, late mailing by customers and the late arrival of overseas mail, as well as extended holidays granted to staff.

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UK Royal Mail to slash half of marketing team

Posted by | Jan 15, 2004 | |

The Royal Mail has revealed that it is to axe up to half the jobs in its marketing department, as part of a group-wide shake-up.

The company’s marketing department employs about 360 people, but Royal Mail announced this week that it plans to cut that head-count by as much as 40 or 50 per cent by April. The company claims it will try to manage all these redundancies voluntarily.

The redundancies are part of a wider exercise across the Royal Mail group. In December, Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier announced the company’s intention to cut 3,000 non-operational manager positions by voluntary redundancy.

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New chairman takes over at UK Postcomm

Posted by | Jan 15, 2004 | |

Nigel Stapleton takes over the chairmanship of Postcomm from the close of the Commission’s 49th meeting today (15 January 2004). He succeeds Graham Corbett who has chaired Postcomm’s seven independent commissioners since the organisation was created in 2000.

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