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Post watchdog waives fines for missed targets

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

Postal group Consignia could have been fined #8 million for failing to achieve its end-of-year targets but regulators decided a penalty would have been counter-productive, it was announced today.
Postcomm said it was concerned at the poor standards of delivery to certain post codes, particularly in London, and that the company “had not tried hard enough” to achieve targets for its 1st and 2nd class response business services
The industry watchdog, however, said a financial penalty would not have benefited customers and is instead working to improve services with the company, which had been losing #1.5 million a day.
Overall standards had improved in the last financial year and it was keen to see standards maintained and bettered in the next, the watchdog added.

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U.S., Mexico Attempt to Quell UPS Lawsuit

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

The governments of the United States and Mexico have lined up behind Canada in an attempt to throw out a $230-million suit brought by United Parcel Service over what it says are unfair business practices by Canada Post Corp. The three governments argue in filings before a NAFTA tribunal that UPS’s claim does not come under the scope of the trade agreement’s controversial Chapter 11, which allows firms to sue any of the three countries if they feel they have been hurt by government actions. UPS in turn accuses the governments of trying to rewrite the chapter without going through the national legislatures of the three countries as another NAFTA provision requires. The case has wider ramifications than just whether, as UPS alleges, Canada Post has cost it at least $230-million in damages by channelling monopoly revenue from the general postal service into subsidizing Canada Post courier products.

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Some DHL services in Japan to use Deutsche Post brand

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

Deutsche Post AG, parent of express courier firm DHL International Ltd., said Monday the overseas mail services operated by DHL in Japan will carry the Deutsche Post brand from this autumn.
In Japan, DHL has operated large-volume overseas mail services for corporate customers, handling such items as direct mail and catalogs, since early 2001, on top of overseas package services.
Deutsche Post, which raised its stake in DHL to over 75 pct in July, has decided to integrate DHL’s overseas mail services in Japan to its Deutsche Post Global Mail Service, a spokesman said.
The overseas package services in Japan will continue under the DHL brand, the spokesman said.

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Carriers Ask for U.S. Govt. Investigation of DHL

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp. have asked the federal government [U.S.] to reopen a probe of the ownership structure of rival DHL Worldwide Express, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The latest moves are aimed at bringing attention to the complicated ownership structure of DHL, the largest air-express courier outside the U.S., the paper said. The requests were made last week in separate filings with the Department of Transportation, and indicate the two are uniting forces against German delivery giant Deutsche Post AG.

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La Poste Shuts Down B2B Data Subsidiary

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

French national postal service La Poste has closed down the activities of its subsidiary Postaxess, which specialises in the electronic management of B2B data. The group says Postaxess took longer than expected to get its very specialised activity off the ground. It says there will be no redundancies as a result of the closure.

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Israel cuts some postal rates

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

The Knesset Economics Committee today authorized an average 1.2% lowering of the Israel Postal Authority’s rates. The new rates will become effective on September 1. The NIS 1.20 rate for ordinary letters in Israel, which account for a third of the Postal Authority’s revenue, will not be changed.
On the other hand, bulk mail rates will be reduced by 5.2 while rates for most other services will be raised 1.2%. The cost of an ordinary telegram sent through a postal branch or by telephone will rise from NIS 31.20 to NIS 36. At the request of committee chair MK Avraham Poraz (Shinui), the rate for illustrated greeting cards will not be raised.

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Norwegian Post monopoly's days are numbered

Posted by | Aug 12, 2002 | |

Authorities in Norway are eager to break up the country’s postal service and open it to private players. The service would thus face new competition, while residents of outlying districts face higher postal costs.
Mail carriers in rural areas often offer extra service, but that may soon end.
It’s the postal regulators themselves who are proposing that European competition directives be phased in more quickly than planned.
Torstein Olsen, a director of the postal and communications authority (Post- og teletilsynet, PT), told newspaper Aftenposten on Monday that he thinks virtually the entire postal service must go out to bid in order for customers to notice new competition.

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Deutsche Post to Offer Mail Service in Japan

Posted by | Aug 11, 2002 | |

Deutsche Post AG, Europe’s largest postal/transport services company, plans to begin an international mail service in Japan this autumn, sources close to the matter said, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun Sunday edition reported. The German company will use the parcel-collection network that affiliate DHL International Ltd. operates in Japan to send overseas large quantities of direct mail of Japanese companies at cut-rate prices. The planned move is designed to pre-empt the Japanese government plan to expand the scope of overseas mail services when Postal Public Corp. is established next year. The new public corporation is expected to face immediate competition from private companies in the international business. Deutsche Post is entering the Japanese market as part of efforts to expand its Global Mail Service worldwide. Most of the work will be outsourced to affiliate DHL Japan Inc., but the service will be offered under the Deutsche Post brand.

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