Postcomm today began consulting on the proposed issue of a long term licence to UK Mail Ltd to provide consolidation services for business customers. UK Mail Ltd currently holds an interim postal licence for similar services. This will be revoked by consent if a standard licence – which will last a minimum of seven years – is granted.
Read MoreThe Postal Authority could soon be delivering not only your mail, but your newspaper as well. Authority chairman and acting director-general Yossi Shelli announced that, with the opening of mail services to competition, the attempt is being made to find postmen and women more work instead of dismissing some of them. The authority will in the next few weeks initiate negotiations with newspaper publishers who, he said, spend about NIS 200 million on distributing their publications to subscribers each year. The authority intends to suggest cheaper alternatives, Shelli said.
Read MoreUPS has become the first package delivery company to broadly offer occasional shippers working in small offices or at home same-day pickup service for ground parcels, not just air express. The new UPS service, named On-Call PickupSM, allows a busy business owner, for example, to use the Internet or telephone to schedule a pickup of any type package either on the same day or on a future date, should they be unable to leave the office. The service is priced economically and requires only that a customer use “MyUPS.com” on the Web to prepare the package.
Read MorePosten, Sweden’s national postal service, said yesterday that it acquired Post Denmark’s 50 percent interest in Direct Link Worldwide NV and will make it a wholly owned subsidiary. Posten said the acquisition will allow it to compete better in the international mail markets and bring Direct Link’s strength and globalization to Swedish companies looking to go international.
Read MoreMail, Express and Logistics company TPG N.V. is pleased to announce it has hired Günther Thiel (50), Christian Fürstaller (38) and Rodolphe Schoettel (41) to head the expansion of its logistics operations under the TNT Logistics brand in the Central European region, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary. Thiel will join TPG in May. The others will start at TPG within a few months.
Read MoreDHL Airways, Inc., a leading U.S. provider of air cargo services, today announced the relocation of its corporate headquarters to Miami, Florida from Chicago, Illinois. Effective May 15, 2003, the company will assume corporate operations at One Biscayne Tower in downtown Miami. “Chicago is truly a city that works and it has afforded DHL Airways a great business climate to grow and prosper in,” said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John H. Dasburg. “However, we have restructured the management team for DHL Airways and given the geographic locations of several of our members, it just makes good sense to relocate our headquarters location.”
Read MoreDeutsche Post Global Mail and its partners have just launched the GLOBALMATCH mail distribution service, a cost-effective, fast and secure solution for the bulk transportation of international mail. MATCH stands for Mail Transportation through Consolidation Hubs. By consolidating mail consignments from many different mail streams, GLOBALMATCH is able to obtain bulk transportation rates at more advantageous prices than the individual operators could negotiate for themselves. According to Klaus Knappik, Chairman of Deutsche Post Global Mail, “Cost efficiency, reliability and innovation characterize our approach to manage the ‘mail logistics chain’ together with our partners in the transportation and mail world.”
Read MoreEven though Austria’s state-owned mail service Österreichische Post AG will close 2002 with a profit, the financial results were still disappointing. Turnover sank by almost EUR 21 million from EUR 1.505 billion in 2001 to EUR 1.482 billion, and earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) to EUR 11.1 million, were down by 52%. According to Rudolf Jettmar, Österreichische Post’s chief financial officer, <> still the mail service’s performance clearly fell short of its own targets. Originally, Österreichische Post forecast an increase in turnover and profit for financial year 2002.
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