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First Class stamp `could cost 40p' Consignia warns

Posted by | Feb 17, 2002 | |

The price of a first class stamp could rise to as much as 40p if plans to introduce competition to the postal service go ahead, Consignia warned today.
Fierce competition to secure contracts for bulk business mail could hit Consignia’s profits and its ability to deliver personal mail across the country at fixed prices, the company said.
As well as the possible increase in the price of first class stamps from 27p, second class stamps could rise by as much as 11p soaring from 19p to 30p, a spokeswoman said.

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DHL Argentina's sales increase

Posted by | Feb 17, 2002 | |

The courier company DHL will not rise the prices of its services and predicts to grow between 3-5% in Argentina this year. In 2001, the company increased by 12% its sales, with 50 branches in the provinces in the country and invested Pesos $11mil in a new plant in Buenos Aires city. This is the largest courier plant in Latin America.

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Now there'll be no post on Good Friday

Posted by | Feb 17, 2002 | |

THE Post Office has scrapped its Good Friday delivery service for the first time in 162 years.
It means that over the four-day Easter break homes and businesses in England and Wales can expect just one delivery of letters and parcels – on the Saturday.
Good Friday is traditionally treated like any other working day but this year 50 million letters and 300,000 parcels will remain in Post Office storage.
Postwatch, the postal service watchdog, condemned the move, claiming it breaks a promise to improve services.

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Secure boxes for home delivery or retail pick-up points

Posted by | Feb 16, 2002 | |

The single biggest factor holding back the e-commerce revolution, said the experts, was the inconvenience of having to stay at home to wait for deliveries.
So the new breed of e-fulfilment companies, allowing retailers to deliver goods whether or not customers are at home, should have been laughing all the way to the bank.
However, 18 months down the line, those who haven’t run out of cash concede it is taking somewhat longer than they thought to spread the e-fulfilment gospel.
Retailers agreeing to act as pick-up points for goods ordered over the net have seen at best a disappointing trickle of parcels going through their stores, and at worst, none at all.

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Swiss Post, UBS Launch Credit Services

Posted by | Feb 16, 2002 | |

The Swiss state-owned postal services on Friday announced a deal with the biggest bank in the country, UBS, to provide credit services to clients. The post office had originally wanted to create its own Postbank but this ran into heavy opposition in parliament and the government had to withdraw a proposal to create such a bank.

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A setback for the forces of verbal barbarity: Consignia's chief spills the beans

Posted by | Feb 16, 2002 | |

We tend to get emotional about names. That is why I could be found jumping around my desk this morning saying “Thank you, thank you, Allan Leighton” for publicly acknowledging what most of the country has been saying for months: Consignia, the new name for the Post Office, is a disaster.

Since Mr Leighton is Consignia’s new chairman, his statement took some courage. I hope it marks a turning point in the power of the brand consultants, under whose baleful influence British company names have been changing into a jumble of the pretentious, meaningless or absurd.

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State underwrites struggling Alitalia

Posted by | Feb 15, 2002 | |

The Italian government wants to retain a 51% stake in Alitalia for another two years. Cur ently, the state owns 53 % of the airline. The move has put an end — at least for the time being to the protracted wrangling about the privatisation of the airline, which, in the year 2000, led to Alitalia’s spectacular ‘divorce’ from former partner KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. This move, which has the sanction of the labour unions, always a force to be reckoned with in Italy, is compatible with the longterm aim of putting the airline on a sound financial footing, a prerequisite for a successful privatisation.

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