Co-Operation amongst Southern European PPO’s
Co-Operation amongst Southern European PPO’s – By José María Marcos
Manager, International Institutional Relations, Correos y Telégrafos S.A. Spain
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REIMS X or what next?
REIMS X or what next? – A presentation by Georges Goumas
– Director of International Mail ELTA
Belgian Post Announces Taxipost Service
Starting 1 July 2002, Taxipost is offering its customers a new package product: Taxipost Early Pick-Up. This new product is ideal, for example, for any company with an after-sales or repair service which sends out mobile teams with spare parts very early in the morning. Within 24 hours after the order, Taxipost Early Pick-Up can deliver spare parts to a pick-up point (post office). Starting at 6 a.m. in the morning, the companies can pick up their packages from any of 600 pick-up points throughout Belgium. The Post not only holds the packages available, but can also arrange for the return or for a proof of pick-up. With this service, Taxipost is offering customised solutions which better meet the needs of our customers.
Read MoreConsignia plans less severe cuts in Scotland
Allan Leighton, chairman of Consignia, signalled that the company’s Scottish operations – which employ 15,500 staff – would be less badly hit than other parts of the UK in the latest round of blood-letting at the embattled former Royal Mail.
A week after the company announced plans to make one in ten of its 170,000 workers redundant, to stem (pounds) 1m-a-day losses, Leighton said he felt losses in Scotland would not run at anywhere near 10%.
Following visits to plants in Glasgow yesterday, he said a smaller proportion of Scotland’s 1900 post offices would be closed than elsewhere by Consignia, which wants to slash its network of 9000 urban sub-post offices.
EU seeks repayment of Deutsche Post funds
The European Commission cracked down on Deutsche Post AG for the third time in little over a year Wednesday by ordering the repayment of what it said was EUR 572 million ($540 million) in illegal state aid.
The commission’s anti-monopoly authorities found that the national post office, which is majority owned by the government, used state funds from 1994-1998 to undercut rivals in its unprofitable package-delivery business. While domestic mail delivery remains a monopoly in Germany, parcel services have been open to competition for years.
“This decision is a victory for fair competition and customer choice,” said Anton van der Lande, an executive in Brussels for a rival delivery firm, United Parcel Service. UPS instigated the commission’s investigation when it filed a legal complaint in 1994.
UPS: European Commission’s Decision on Deutsche Post State Aid Victory for Fair Competition
United Parcel Service (UPS) commends the European Commission on its decision today that Deutsche Post AG (DPAG) must repay 572 million euros plus interest for receiving state aid and using monopoly profits to subsidize its commercial activities, notably its parcel service. “This decision is a victory for fair competition and customer choice,” said Anton van der Lande, Vice President, UPS Public Affairs International.
Read MoreTPG wins order to deliver parts to Nissan, Renault UK dealerships
TNT Post Group said its TNT Logistics division has won a three-year contract to deliver parts to Nissan Motor Co and Renault SA dealerships in the UK.
Nissan and Renault operate a single national distribution centre at Lutterworth, Leicestershire from where TNT Logistics will deliver parts to 264 Nissan and 200 Renault dealerships, it said.
Financial details were not disclosed.
UPS offers contract proposals
Negotiations between the United Parcel Service and the Teamsters entered a new stage Wednesday when the company made its initial contract proposals on wages, and pension and health benefits.
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