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Cape firms reject postal rules

Posted by | Oct 31, 2002 | |

The regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry has entered the fray over the state’s attempt to regulate the courier industry, warning that implementing draft regulations in their current form would have a severe negative effect on many of its members.

The chamber said in a letter to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri that although commerce and industry were the biggest users of postal and courier services, there had been no attempt to consult organised business over the new provisions, which would force smaller courier companies out of business and destroy thousands of jobs.

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Neoliberal reforms arrive in the mail

Posted by | Oct 31, 2002 | |

The hundred-year-old principle of a postal service for all and at an accessible price is being threatened by the advance of economic liberalization, say experts gathered here for the “strategy conference” of the Universal Postal Union (UPU).

Even the venerable UPU, with its 128-year history, risks disappearing — or at least losing its intergovernmental status – – in the wave of private groups that are seeking to exploit postal services.

UPU director-general Thomas E. Leavey pegged technology as one of the factors that “threatens the financial foundation of the postal service” and, as a result, the capacity to sustain the universal network of the service.

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Deutsche Post presents interim financial statements of as of September 30

Posted by | Oct 31, 2002 | |

Deutsche Post World Net presented its figures for the first nine months of the current year in Frankfurt/ Main today. The Group increased revenue year-on-year by just under 16 percent to €28.8 billion, mainly as a result of the acquisition of a majority stake in DHL International. In line with Group strategy, the proportion of revenue generated abroad rose from just over 31 percent to roughly 40 percent.

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Fortec after French cash

Posted by | Oct 31, 2002 | |

Geodis the state-controlled French transport group. faces making a key decision on the future of its small UK subsidiary, Fortec Pallet Distribution Network. Fortec director Rod Abrahams, who joined the firm 6 months ago, will ask for the best part of £10m to develop a new pallet hub next to the exisiting depot on the A5, 3 miles west of J8 on the M1.

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Direct mail from east coast states to Thai districts

Posted by | Oct 31, 2002 | |

Mail from east coast states like Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang destined for districts in southern Thailand will no longer pass through Kuala Lumpur once a new arrangement is worked out with the Thai postal authorities.

According to SM Haja Alawdin Md Sulaiman, senior general manager (II) for Pos Malaysia’s business and support services, such mail will instead be transported by land through Kelantan’s Rantau Panjang, and then onto the Golok town on the Thai side for distribution to districts like Yala, Narathiwat and Patani.

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E-Mail will never replace letters completely, says Malaysia Post Senior GM

Posted by | Oct 31, 2002 | |

Malaysia Post senior general manager II (business and support services) SM Haja Alawdin S. Md Sulaiman said today the postal service continued to enjoy an annual growth of between three and five per cent.

“In some States, the growth is much higher. Kelantan, for example, recorded an 18 per cent growth this year,” he said.

He said Pos Malaysia was handling 3.5 million letters per day which worked out to about one billion per year.

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Post Offices confront an electronic future

Posted by | Oct 30, 2002 | |

How post offices should respond to challenges posed by technology and market liberalisation is being debated at conference of the Universal Postal Union. The 700 delegates are discussing how organisations devoted to moving paper from place to place should deal with a future increasingly enveloped by email messages.

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