The express parcel service of the Swiss railway company SBB and the express service of the German Post Office, DHL express4you, have expanded to 29 Swiss railway stations. The new stations where the service is available are: Brig, Sitten, Montreux, Neuenburg, Thun, Biel, Solothurn, Olten, Aargau, Baden and Schaffhausen.
Read MoreThe Austrian government has no mandate to privatise its state postal monopoly, the Osterreichische Post, despite media reports Deutsche Post AG has been in talks to take a 75 pct stake, the Vienna daily Der Standard reported, citing a board member of Austria’s state holdings company.
Read MoreFrance-based Neopost, the world’s No 2 manufacturer of postage machines, wants to take advantage of the opening of China’s postal service market.
The company is lobbying China’s postal industry regulators to allow franking machines to be installed in large companies, said Neopost Chair and Chief Executive Officer Jean-Paul Villot.
China’s low usage of franking machines, meant to facilitate processing of outgoing mail, provides huge business opportunities for manufacturers, he said.
Read MoreWeston Solutions(SM), Inc announced today that it was selected to receive two new United States Postal Service Environmental Services Contracts with a combined worth up to $10 million.
Under both contracts, the Company will provide environmental services to the Great Lakes and Atlanta Facilities Service Offices (FSO) serving the States of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Each $5 million five-year contract has a base term of two years with three optional years.
Read MorePreparations for the privatisation of the Austrian postal service are underway and a strategic partner is being sought, the state holding company OeIAG, the owner of the service, said.
“The search for a strategic partner for the Austrian post is part of the mandate of OeIAG,” said Viktoria Kickinger, a spokeswoman for the publicly held company.
Read MoreDeutsche Post World Net AG said it has taken 100% control of DHL International by acquiring the remaining 23% from two investment funds and 1.4% from Japan Airlines.
A company statement did not disclose financial details but noted that DHL plays “a decisive role” in Deutsche Post’s strategy.
Read MoreSub-Postmasters have taken their three-year fight to be paid the national minimum wage to the Court of Appeal. The Inland Revenue has also joined the test case brought against Royal Mail.
Failure by Royal Mail to win the case could spark a deluge of claims from 16,000 sub-postmasters seeking the minimum wage and benefits under the Working Time Directive, including holidays.
In the hearing, which began yesterday, Tim Brennan, QC, argued for the Revenue that sub-postmasters should be classified as homeworkers as defined by the Minimum Wage Act.
Read MoreThe chairman of Royal Mail today launched a fresh attack on the industry’s regulator, warning that its painfully slow regime was threatening the future of the postal service.
Allan Leighton said the business was running out of time to put in place a recovery plan, blaming constraints from Postcomm.
Mr Leighton said it was now nine months since the Royal Mail submitted plans to raise stamp prices by 1p as part of its plan to tackle losses which are still running at more than #1 million a day.
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