Hays yesterday called on the postal regulator to press ahead with its plan to end Consignia’s monopoly on bulk mail. It also urged Postcomm to grant the support services group permanent licences for its mail services. Bob Lawson, chairman and acting chief executive, said the group, which was awarded three interim mail licenses in September,needed certainty on how the market would develop over the next one-to-three years.
Read MoreMalta’s parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has started to discuss the government’s sale of 30 percent of its shareholding in Maltapost Plc, the island’s postal company, to New Zealand’s government-owned NZ Post.
Read MoreRECRUITMENT and services firm Hays expressed concerns about the future of its fledgling postal business yesterday, as it posted an 8.5 per cent slump in half-year pre-tax profits to £115.1 million.
The company has been delivering mail to certain restricted postcodes for the past year through special temporary licences issued by postal regulator Postcomm.
Australia Post has ambitious plans to provide warehousing, logistics and assembly services for the information technology (IT) industry. The company recently signed a contract with Microsoft Australia for distribution of the Xbox video game consoles.
Read MoreTariffs for internal and external mail services will be increased starting March 15, aiming at covering the results from changes in consumption costs and on ROL/DST exchange rates, according to National Mail Company.
As for internal services, message tariffs for up to 1 kg packages increases from 2,000 lei to 2,500 lei, while a special delivery letter will cost 4,000 lei, against ROL 3,000 as currently.
As well, arrival confirmation will be charged 4,000 lei, 500 lei more than the present tariff, and the subscription for a mailbox 19,000, as compared with ROL 16,000 as presently.
Consignia, the postal group, finally had something to celebrate last night with an outline deal on pay and indications that its regulator would back down on the introduction from next month of further competition in postal services.
Leaders of the Communication Workers’ Union confirmed that they had reached broad agreement with Consignia over wages for their 145,000 members.
German postal and logistics giant Deutsche Post is considering a major takeover this year in the United States or in Asia, the group’s chief executive said, according to investment magazine Die Teleboerse.
We would be bad business people if we didn’t very thoroughly check out opportunities in the United States and, I emphasise, also in Asia, Chief Executive Klaus Zumwinkel said.
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