Harris signs up with Pallet Force
Southampton-based Harris Transport is the latest haulier to join up with PalletForce.
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ID Data wins PO Smart Card deal
Secure transactions firm ID Data has won a deal to supply smart cards to the Post Office as part of its rollout of next-generation banking. From next year the Government plans to pay all benefits directly into bank accounts as part of its plan to offer banking facilities to people who lack them.
Read MoreGoodyear chooses Exel
Exel plc, the British third-party logistics service provider, said that Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has appointed Exel as its lead logistics provider, coordinating its logistics operations in North America.
Goodyear, based in Akron, Ohio, has been working with Exel since 1996. No terms of the new contract were disclosed.
“This move will expand Exel’s reach into our supply chain network beyond its current effective management of our distribution centers,” said John Loulan, vice president for operations, manufacturing and supply chain in North America at Goodyear.
iLumin launches Secure-DX, a secure e-mail service in the United Kingdom and Europe
iLumin Corporation, a leader in providing Secure eBusiness software products and services, today announced the availability of its new secure e-mail and document delivery service designed to meet the communication needs of small, medium and large enterprises within the UK and Europe.
Secure-DX is the latest in iLumin’s suite of Secure eBusiness products and services, and utilizes iLumin’s core digital signature, encryption and privacy protection technologies. At the core of Secure-DX is its ability to rapidly enable companies and individuals to quickly, securely and confidentially communicate over the Internet.
Read MoreEarly Post scheme is failing to deliver
THOUSANDS of mail users have rejected a plan to pay £750 a year to receive their post before 9am. Not one of 23,800 Edinburgh homes and 400 businesses in a Consignia pilot scheme has taken up the offer.
It suggests Consignia’s plans to raise extra cash, while saving £350million by scrapping the second post, could backfire.
The Edinburgh trial is one of 14 in Britain.
Full privatization of Japan Postal Services difficult
An adviser to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Thursday suggested that it would be difficult to fully privatize Japan’s gigantic postal services.
A planned public postal corporation should eventually be transformed into an entity with part of its equity held by the government, Satoru Matsubara, a member of a panel on postal services advising Koizumi, said in an interview with Jiji Press.
Read MoreDeutsche Post to expand Australian Operations
German-based international mail distributor Deutsche Post Global Mail GmbH plans to extend its operations in Australia and other countries in the region.
Deutsche Post chairman Klaus Knappik, who was in Sydney to attend a board meeting of its Australian operations today, said the company planned to compete directly with Australia Post for its share of international mail distribution.
Mr Knappik said the board was very much focused on expanding Australian operations.
“The Australian market is probably right now the most important one for us because it is the most developed in the region and in most other Asian countries we are not really that well represented yet,” Mr Knappik told AAP.
Set of 4 mail service bills approved
The House of Councillors passed into law Wednesday a set of bills related to the establishment of a public postal corporation and entry of private companies into the mail-delivery business.
The bills cleared the upper house at a plenary session with the support of the ruling coalition, the Liberal Democratic Party, New Komeito and Hoshuto (New Conservative Party).
The laws require private companies entering the letter-delivery business to offer nationwide services; to complete delivery within three days; to set up a specified number of mailboxes; to offer delivery services at least six days a week, and to provide their service at the same cost regardless of destination within the nation.
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