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Vietnam Renews List Of Businesses Not Allowed To Strike

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

The government has renewed a list of businesses that are not allowed to go on strike.
Under the new list, employees working for electricity production, supply and transmission companies under the Vietnam Electricity Corporation (EVN), postal and telecommunication businesses under the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Corporation (VNPT), passenger and cargo transportation businesses under the Vietnam Railway Union are not entitled to go on strike.
The list also includes businesses under the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV), municipal and provincial public transport and utility businesses, maritime transportation and freight warranty businesses under the Vietnam Maritime Transport Department and the Vietnam National Shipping Lines (VINALINES), air transportation and aviation warranty businesses under the Vietnam Civil Aviation Administration.

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La Poste creates exclusive offer for major clients

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

Yesterday a new range of products was presented at a board meeting at La Poste, the French national postal services group. “Tempost” is aimed exclusively at the group’s major clients, the industrial parcel delivery firms, which generate about 30 per cent of La Poste’s total turnover from parcel delivery (10bn euros).
La Poste is promising 95 per cent service quality, and has undertaken to pay compensation if it falls below this target. A discount system is also under consideration. There have been objections to the plan from the SUD-PTT union, which says it will create a two-tier, unfair system in which industrial parcel delivery will be given priority at the expense of ordinary users.

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Schröder cuts 'will close post offices'

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

GERMANY’S postal service joined other parts of the business area yesterday in protesting against government interference in the economy.
Hundreds of post offices would have to be closed, thousands of letter boxes sealed and more than 10,000 postal workers made redundant if the Government insisted on price controls on stamps and other postal charges, Klaus Zumwinkel, chairman of Deutsche Post, said.
The dispute with the Government erupted as Ron Sommer, the beleaguered chairman of Deutsche Telekom, told Gerhard Schröder, the Chancellor, to stop meddling with his company, in which the Government owns a large stake. He told the newspaper Bild: “The state should be confining itself to creating the legal conditions for the opening of the economy.”

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Cyber mail is set to oust old-style postman

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: Post Danmark has made a decisive investment that may, in large part, determine the future of the ubiquitous red post box and uniformed deliverer.
With a DKK 70 million investment in ‘E-box,’ the national postal service has taken its final step in the direction of regular electronic-post delivery.
As business daily Børsen reported last Friday, Post Danmark has sat in the proverbial wings and watched as internet and email communication avenues ate a substantial part of the postal service’s core customer base. With its investment in E-box, Post Danmark hopes to defeat its potential enemy by becoming an ally. By the beginning of 2003, Post Danmark will offer its customers the possibility of sending electronic letters rather than traditional letters via post.

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UPS reported a mixed performance in its second quarter

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

For the quarter ended June 30, 2002, revenue totaled $7.68 billion, up 2.5% from the $7.49 billion for the prior year. Consolidated operating profit declined 1.2% to $1.03 billion. Net income declined to $611 million compared to the prior year’s $630 million, and earnings per diluted share dropped 1.8% to $0.54 versus $0.55 recorded during the period in 2001.

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Mail rate plan condemend by post watchdog

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

Postwatch has attacked Royal Mail over its controversial plan for a new pricing system, branding it both complicated and unnecessary.
The post industry watchdog voiced its disapproval of the new system, which will take into account the size of an item as well as its weight, following consultation with a range of postal users.
Peter Carr, chairman of Postwatch, says: “This is the wrong route. Royal Mail should be buying machinery that processes the larger items that customers wish to send.

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Czech Post Office has ten rivals on local market

Posted by | Jul 12, 2002 | |

The Czech Post Office Ceska posta has ten rivals with permission to provide postal services on the Czech market, the Ministry of Transport and Communications has reported.

Postal services are provided by several courier services, as well as by multinational companies like TNT, DHL International or United parcel service.

While Ceska posta has to offer its services throughout the country, its rivals generally concentrate on profitable segments of the market, that is, services for the corporate sector or in towns, Ceska posta’s spokesman Ladislav Vancura said.

Last year, Ceska posta delivered 735.2 million letters, 23.8 million parcels, and 90 million bills.

It posted a gross profit of Kc743m on operating revenues of Kc14.5bn in 2001. The company runs 3,400 post offices and employs 39,600 people.

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FedEx, Blue Dart to part ways in India

Posted by | Jul 11, 2002 | |

FedEx has decided to invest more in India, and break free from the arrangement with Blue Dart Express, India’s largest domestic courier company.
Once their contract expired in September 2002, the world’s largest air express company will go alone to explore the fast-growing Indian logistics market, said industry officials. The US multinational, keen to end its contract, has been in the process of setting up its own infrastructure in India.

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