A parliamentary committee on Friday approved one of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s key economic reforms to open Japan’s postal services to competition. The step makes it likely that the legislature will formally approve the bills next week.
Read MoreDublin – July 5, 2002: An Post has acquired Air Business Limited, a UK mail
company, for an undisclosed sum.
Swansea businesses and residents could soon have to pay £62.50 a month to guarantee their mail arrives before 9am. Under a huge shake-up of postal services, the Royal Mail says it will soon only be able to promise early morning deliveries to those addresses in Llanelli and Burry Port that receive an average of 20 or more letters a day. Everyone else will either have to wait until after 9am or pay for the service when the changes start later this month.
Read MoreExpress delivery group Business Post this week embarked on a media relations onslaught in a bid to take advantage of plans to deregulate the postal market. The group is aiming to raise its profile in the business and consumer press as postal regulator Postcomm finalises details of market liberalisation.
Read MoreSending parcels via Deutsche Post World Nets Euro Express network is set to become easier: The two pan-European, standardised international products and will be joined by their almost identically named domestic counterparts in the course of the year. The introduction of the domestic pan-European standard products and will help to optimise processes and leverage synergies within the network. Customers will benefit from far easier preparation for dispatch. The standardised Europremium product replaces as many as twenty different parcel products.
Read MoreSpains state-owned postal services provider Correos y Telégrafos, which is headquartered in Madrid, is restructuring.
In future, The company will divide its activities into three business segments which will be organised as separate divisions and which will take over responsibility for product-orientated tasks for specific markets.
the division into the business segments mail, counter service and express is to help Correos y Telégrafos improve its performance in the increasingly liberalised domestic market.
The trade unions of the French post office yesterday rejected management’s offer of a 1 per cent pay rise (1.8 per cent for those at the bottom of the salary grading) for the organisation’s 101,000 contract staff. This is the first time in 11 years that La Poste’s unions have disputed a pay increase.
Read MoreLiberia, which is already suffering under United Nations sanctions over alleged links with rebels in Sierra Leone, is now faced with another sanction – on mail leaving and coming into the country. International postal bodies and airlines have imposed the embargo because of Liberia’s inability to pay its huge debts to those companies.
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