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UK Royal Mail told to move on access charges

Posted by | Nov 19, 2003 | |

Postcomm, the postal regulator, has warned Royal Mail not to resist further liberalisation of the mail market, while a survey of business customers complained that the quality of the postal operator’s service had deteriorated.

The regulator is expected to make a decision on the thorny issue of access charges, the price private mail companies will pay to use parts of Royal Mail’s network. Postcomm this year proposed that Royal Mail charge rivals 11.5p for each letter in the lightest bracket but the company complained this would lead to substantial losses.

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TNT Logistics signs Italy contracts

Posted by | Nov 18, 2003 | |

TNT Logistics announced that its Italian unit has signed two major contracts.
The first one, with T.R.S. Evolution S.p.A., a division of the Trussardi Group, marks TNT’s debut in Italy’s luxury goods sector. Trussardi produces bags, suitcases, small leather goods and clothing. TNT also received a contract from Giochi Preziosi, a toy producer, to provide logistics management for all of its products.

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FedEx launches five-time weekly Hong Kong to Paris flights

Posted by | Nov 18, 2003 | |

FedEx Express, a unit of FedEx Corp, has launched a five times a week Hong Kong-Paris service, with refueling stops in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The new service provides customers from mainland China the convenience of second working day delivery of items to major European destinations, FedEx said.

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Deutsche Post aims to boost returns for subsidiary DHL in US

Posted by | Nov 18, 2003 | |

Deutsche Post, the German postal and logistics group, is aiming for the loss-making US business of DHL, its express delivery subsidiary, to achieve a return of at least 4% in a few years’ time. It is hoping for a secure third position on the US express delivery market, behind the two market leaders FedEx and UPS, and, with this aim in mind, it invested €1.05bn in the acquisition of the US company Airborne, which, alone, already ranked third on the US market having achieved turnover of €3.34bn last year. Synergies between Airborne and DHL will be targeted as a step towards improving profitability.

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Japan Post tries Toyota system

Posted by | Nov 18, 2003 | |

Japan Post, a public corporation created in April to take over the Postal Services Agency’s postal, savings and life insurance services, has been trying to introduce a production management system used by the Toyota group to streamline the postal services.

However, the system has yet to result in an ideal post office, and some employees are perplexed by the new system. It remains to be seen whether the system will be effective as a method of postal reform.

This autumn, Japan Post distributed to its branch offices 200-page manuals describing how Koshigaya Post Office in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, had introduced the Toyota-style system, known as the kanban, or just-in-time inventory system.

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