Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe said Sunday he expects private firms to enter into the mail delivery service after a set of bills on postal services deregulation is passed through the Diet.
“We’ll carry out what can be done with government ordinances, ministerial decrees and a manual. We hope the private sector will exercise ingenuity,” Abe said on a Fuji Television program.
DHL Worldwide Express has started package and freight delivery service in Barbados and has decided to make the former British colony its Eastern Caribbean base, the company said.
The first packages arrived in Bridgetown last week aboard a Boeing 727, the company said in a statement Friday.
Deutsche Post AG, Europe’s largest postal service, plans to invest more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.4 billion) in China within the next three years to become the country’s No. 1 logistics company, Der Spiegel said.
Deutsche Post’s DHL Worldwide Express Inc. unit holds 35 percent of the Chinese market, more than U.S. rivals United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp
Parliament’s Finance and Expenditure Committee has unanimously recommended that the Auditor-General undertake a management review of New Zealand Post’s international postal consultancy, Transend.
The committee says that after reviewing Transend’s activities in Europe and South Africa it has a number of concerns and has received wide-ranging evidence suggesting Transend’s management systems need improvement.
The Committee has recommended the Auditor-General undertake an audit of Transend to ensure its policies and procedures are adequate.
The Cabinet of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi endorsed two of the four bills that have been drafted to set up a public corporation to take over the three main services of the post office and to enable private companies to provide mail delivery. The remaining two will be approved on May 7.
The bills were fiercely opposed by some members of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and they were endorsed without the blessings of the LDP leadership.
THE cost of a basic postage stamp may rise by 5 from next year and the Howard Government has not given up hope of broader postal system reforms.
Australia Post has applied to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to increase the price of postage for standard letters from 45 to 50 from January 2003.
Australia Post group manager (letters) Gary Lee said the last price increase was 10 years ago and since then, the consumer price index had risen 26 per cent.
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Palletways have been acquired in a management buy out with Support from 3i who have invested £6million in the business
Postal services commission Postcomm has entered the liberalisation row by attacking Consignia’s attempts to slow the deconstruction of its monopoly.
As tension mounts over the forthcoming postal strike, a letter leaked to Precision Marketing reveals that Postcomm chief executive Martin Stanley is accusing Consignia of putting ‘inappropriate’ pressure on MPs, by using the organisation’s financial difficulties to scare the Government into stalling liberalisation.
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