Postal services face serious disruption from early next month following the failure of talks yesterday to resolve the postmasters’ dispute.
Members of the Irish Postmasters’ Union will today begin balloting to escalate their industrial action over pay by withdrawing all mail services from sub-post offices.
The ballot is to be completed by Wednesday next, with the action due to go ahead from Monday, December 2nd.
Read MoreThe new boss of troubled business services group Hays today hinted he may break-up the firm in a bid to improve shareholder returns.
Colin Matthews, who joined as chief executive at the beginning of the month, said he wanted to complete a strategical review as soon as possible.
Addressing shareholders at the group’s annual general meeting, he added: “I can tell you we will not be defending the status quo.
Read MoreThe Chilean mail & express service Correos de Chile is actively negotiating with pharmacies and service station chains the setting up of 200 service points nationwide. Details would be released early 2003 and are part of a modernization spree inclusive the closing of 300 branches from the current 1,100 held by Correos. Correos competes with 300 private courier services in Chile and some of its branches are no longer sustainable. Consequently it would make 1,600 people redundant to slash costs, 1,200 of which already signed to the voluntary retirement program being offered by the company.
Read MoreThe EMA Foundation for Paper-Based Communications has launched an Institute for Postal Studies to conduct a comprehensive research and education campaign on postal reform. “The EMA Foundation has a history of providing balanced thought-provoking educational information to the mailing community and legislators on postal issues. I am confident that the Institute will present insightful information that can be used to shape the postal service of the future,” said Bob Muma, chairman of the EMA Foundation.
Read MoreAustralia Post sees no reason why postal reform legislation should cause a revenue slump
Read MoreThe Dutch government’s decision to impose a tariff freeze has provoked a rapid and angry reaction from incumbent postal operator TNT Post Group, which so far has dominated the country’s postal market. But as the market heads for liberalization, TPG must clear this hurdle and sharpen its competitive edge.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has set out the key components of its tariff regulation until 2007 in a letter to the Dutch parliament. Prices in the mandatory part of the mail business will be frozen until 2006, to be followed by full liberalisation of the postal system by 2007, provided Germany and Britain follow suit.
Read MoreSome 5,000 of Germany’s 13,000 post offices shut down temporarily Wednesday due to strikes against plans to close hundreds of branches, the Verdi public services union said.
Deutsche Post, the German postal service, has not ruled out shuttering 1,000 branch offices as part of a major bid to cut costs, which according to the Westfalen Blatt newspaper would put at least 3,600 postal workers on the street.
Read MoreBrazil’s federal post office ECT expects to end 2003 with 4,176 Internet access terminals in operation across 3,200 municipalities, local press reported.
During the first year of operations ECT expects its terminals to provide Internet access for some 3 million people that would not otherwise have access, ECT Internet operations director Antonio de Paula Branquehais said. Eventually this and other projects should provide Internet access to 42 million people.
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