The Canadian federal cabinet has approved sharp price hikes in stamps for mail to the U.S. and other countries, along with an automatic one-cent increase in the cost of mailing a first-class letter in January.
While the cost of a stamp for domestic letters weighing up to 30g will rise to 49c, plus GST, on Jan. 12, the cost of stamps for letters, cards and postcards to the U.S. will jump 23% to 80c, under an order cabinet passed last week.
Read MoreHistorians have joined forces with An Post to resist pressure to introduce US and European-style zip codes here. Prof Ruairi O hUiginn, a lecturer at the department of Modern Irish in NUI, Maynooth, told a symposium on the issue that place names were an important part of Irish life which often dated back to Celtic Ireland and our earliest literature. And An Post added that it did not believe that Irish people would be willing to use the codes. The commercial director of An Post, Derek Kickham, told the symposium that while the postal code system would have been valuable if it had been introduced in the ’60s, the technology An Post now had in place meant the system would not be economically justified.
Read MoreCzech companies Cesky Telecom and Pragonet will probably supply part of telecommunications services to the new computer centre of courier company DHL in Prague.
sources say the two companies had won a tender declared by DHL, but no agreements have been signed.
Read MoreA small subsidiary of UPS is making a big impact on behalf of its customers through the deployment of computer software that allows exquisitely precise planning of delivery routes.
The software, known as the Roadnet™ Transportation Suite, is offered by UPS Logistics Technologies and is being used by grocery stores, beverage bottlers and snack food companies, among others, to shave miles off their delivery networks.
Read MoreThe world’s largest express mail service DHL has announced that it has suspended cargo flights to Afghanistan due to security concerns.
A spokesman for the Deutsche Post, which owns DHL, said that the Bonn-based company is reviewing the situation in Afghanistan before making further decisions.
Read MoreNational (Adpostal), the Colombian state postal service, has announced that it has begun the modernization of its management, operating and financial systems with the installation of two software programs provided by the Universal Postal Union. These are the International Postal System and the Financial System, which will permit an improvement in services, reduce delivery times and monitoring of deliveries.
Read MoreThe Argentinian government has taken control of the country’s troubled post office. Six years after the management of Correo Argentino was privatised, Buenos Aires has cancelled the local Macri group’s 30-year contract and will assume control until it can award a new concession.
Read MoreDeutsche Post World Net AG management board chairman Klaus Zumwinkel said he expects the German government will have completely privatised the company by 2007.
In an interview with AFX News, Zumwinkel said he considers it a ‘wise’ move to privatise the company in stages until 2007.
Asked when he expects the company to be fully privatised, he said the company now has a free float of around 32% and added: ‘I expect that by 2007, when the exclusive license expires, the free float would be 100%.’
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