Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Thursday he has instructed posts minister Toranosuke Katayama to submit four bills related to postal deregulation to the Diet before the Golden Week holidays from late April.
In making the instruction, Koizumi is apparently pressuring the Liberal Democratic Party’s policy-making panel on postal services, which is strongly opposed to submitting the bills simultaneously.
Small and medium sized hauliers are going to find it increasingly difficult to make a profit without being part of apallet distribution network. That is the opinion of Palletline md Steve Hayward, who backs up his warning with hard facts.
Read MoreA trunker operating on pallet work a reasonably average yield rates should generate £450,000 a year in revenue with a gross margin approaching 25% after delivery and hub fees, according to Steve Hayward of Palletline. This can underpin a members profit, he told RHA members at its spring convention in Opio, France.
Read MoreThe setting up of Bulkpost Venture, a subsidiary of the Nigerian Postal Service, two years ago by the management of NIPOST to handle bulkmails in its service delivery and revenue drive has begun yielding dividends. According to the venture’s manager, Umar K. Musa, in an exclusive chat with Broad Street Pulse, over N180,000,000 has so far been realised in its bulkmails, including dividend warrants, annual general meeting notices, bank statements, share certificates, bills and examination slips.
Read MoreThe German government on Wednesday proposed trimming its profitable postal service’s letter monopoly in response to a European Union ruling but Deutsche Post will still carry most of the mail.
Deutsche Post, which also has express mail and financial-services businesses, enjoys a legal monopoly on delivering letters up to 200 grams for at least 50 U.S. cents. The proposal would narrow the monopoly to letters weighing 100 grams or less at the beginning of next year and to 50 grams or less in 2006, under an EU plan to permit more postal market competition.
Read MoreTibbett & Britten group North America has won a multi-million dollar contract with JC Penney, an American department store retail chain.
Read MoreCitizens have raised a great amount of concern on the Notice issued by Pakistan Postal Department which ‘warns any individual / agency / institution / organization against sending any letter through any means other than through the Post Office, as this would be against the Post Office Act of 1898’.
The notice states that ‘any item falling in the category of letter mail can not be accepted / transmitted / delivered by any other agency including cargo services or cargo service being operated by the airlines / owner of the transport companies. Any contravention attracts penal action’.
Ceska Posta has signed a landmark deal under which international delivery company DHL International will soon be responsible for deliveries of all international mail from the Czech Republic.
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