International mail services company Deutsche Post Global Mail (in the US) is to unveil its new online services today that will let customers order shipping materials, schedule pickups and view their order history directly on the web.
Read MoreMayne Group has reopened talks with trade buyers for its $500 million logistics division, a move which will potentially scuttle a demerger of the business from its core healthcare operations.
The Linfox grouping has set its sights on Mayne’s Australian logistics division, which consists of the group’s warehouse and transport units, and Armaguard.
Read MoreFederal Express Corporation of the US has signed an operational agreement with Prakash Airfreight Pvt Ltd following Blue Dart’s recent alliance with DHL Worldwide Express. The agreement to cooperate in India becomes effective from October 1, when Federal Express’ prior contract with Blue Dart expires.
Read MoreUnited Parcel Service Inc. Chief Executive Officer Michael L. Eskew said the world’s largest package-delivery company is winning back customers who shifted orders to rivals earlier this year. “We continue week by week to be able to get those customers back,” Eskew said in an interview. “The customers are coming back because of our service and the quality of our products.”
Read MoreChronopost International, the express services provider that belongs to the French postal service La Poste, has founded a new subsidiary Chronopost International Norway AS, with its Norwegian partner Skandinavisk Transport System AS (STS), a medium sized freight forwarder.
Read MoreTNT India Ltd hopes to venture into the logistics segment to expand its express and mail services’ portfolio. It expects to earn 45 percent of its overall revenues from logistics and express services by 2007.
Read MoreRoyal Mail’s financial problems have been well publicised, and some direct marketers have made a connection between the Post Office’s need to increase its revenues and the decision to move to a size-based pricing structure for direct mail.
The debate has been raging for months, ever since Precision Marketing first revealed the plans (PM May 24). Guy Chubb, production manager for Production Direct, states: “The proposed Royal Mail changes are just another attempt at making money under false pretences, instead of addressing the root cause – an issue of national non-conformance to a set of guidelines that have been loosely applied by Royal Mail, and seriously overlooked for some users.”
Read MoreJapan’s ordinary mail services remained in the black in fiscal 2001 for the second consecutive year with revenues topping expenses by 10.7 billion yen, an increase of 6.6 billion yen from the previous year, the postal ministry said Friday.
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