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Chinese law delivers shipping controversy

Posted by | Apr 4, 2002 | |

Private express shipping companies, including U.S.-based giants FedEx, UPS and DHL, are facing a May 6 deadline to turn over the bulk of their business in China to the government-run postal service.
Under the order, private services may not deliver any letters or packages under 1.1 pounds, may not charge prices below those of China Post and may not deliver to private homes or major government offices. The restrictions would apply to shipments within China and those to or from other countries.
Li Limou, a spokesman for a trade group representing the delivery companies, says the rules would wipe out 60% of the business private express shippers do in China.

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Schenker counts on global marketing and IT

Posted by | Apr 4, 2002 | |

In spite of the current economic downturn, Schenker presented excellent halfyear results for the first six months of 2001. What do you think is the reason for the growth in earnings?
Above all it is due to our high productivity and very efficient cost management. as market conditions changed very little in the first half of the year.

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Managing online returns

Posted by | Apr 3, 2002 | |

how do you send your goods back to an Internet company if they don’t fit or won’t work? That’s the question that has exercised almost every home shopper at one time or another; and if it troubles them, it troubles the e-tailers just as much. Pioneers soon realised they risked losing face, and business, if they didn’t get their returns policy right. Far from all of them have grasped this nettle adequately so far; but at least most of them seem now to have recognised the need to do so.

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Drop off, pop in and pick up

Posted by | Apr 3, 2002 | |

To have started a company whose very name sums up the market it serves is a privilege enjoyed by few. Yet that’s the situation Jim Doyle finds himself justt two years after starting Collectpoint.
True, othe drop-off poin schemes for home shopping deliveries hay appeared since Collectpoint was founded in December 1999, and some of these survive. But it’s Collectpoint that dominates the market, and whose name springs to mind as soon as the subject is raised.

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Consignia and union agree on job losses

Posted by | Apr 3, 2002 | |

Consignia and the postal workers’ union have struck a deal over job losses at the former Post Office which avoids compulsory sackings and makes a damaging nationwide strike much less likely.
Officials at the Communication Workers Union have claimed an agreement negotiated in the past few days provides guarantees that 30,000 redundancies over the next three years will be voluntary.

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