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Shake-up planned for UK postal deliveries

Posted by | Jan 27, 2002 | |

— Ananova has reported that “householders may have to wait until mid-afternoon to get their post delivered under cost-cutting plans being considered by the Royal Mail. The Royal Mail says it needs to make savings of £1.26bn a year and admits a series of reforms may need to be introduced to help them hit their targets. A spokesman for Consignia, formerly the Post Office which owns the Royal Mail, says prioritising deliveries so businesses receive their post before residential customers is one of the plans under consideration.”

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Consignia Rail Freight Deal Close to Agreement

Posted by | Jan 27, 2002 | |

Consignia is close to agreeing a deal with Railtrack that would remove the threat of the mail group shifting UK deliveries from rail to road. The renamed Post Office is expected to announce next month that it will continue to be a major user of the railways, through contracts with the freight company EWS.

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Israeli Ministry of Communications is recommending immediate opening of registered mail field to competition

Posted by | Jan 27, 2002 | |

A Ministry of Communications team is recommending to Minister of Communications Reuven Rivlin the immediate opening of the registered mail field to competition. A final decision is expected in the coming days. The Postal Authority opposes the measure. If registered mail is opened to competition, the Postal Authority will retain its monopoly in regular and bulk mail.

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A short history of the postcode

Posted by | Jan 27, 2002 | |

The postcode in its present form as a mixture of six letters and digits, was first used in Norwich in October, 1959. This was the world’s first experiment with postal address codes designed to allow sorting by machine. By 1974, the postcode system covered Britain.

The earliest form of postcode was introduced in London in 1857. Sir Rowland Hill, the inventor of the penny post, divided London into districts denoted by compass points, ‘N’ for north, ‘S’ for south and so on. The first provincial city to be divided into postal districts was Liverpool in 1864.

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Deutsche Post Defends Controversial Tax Break

Posted by | Jan 25, 2002 | |

Deutsche Post AG is on course for a row with the German audit office over the extent to which the German postal services and logistics group should enjoy its controversial freedom from sales tax. On Thursday, Deutsche Post denied that it was currently enjoying an unfair competitive advantage due to tax breaks. A company spokesman said its freedom from sales tax was conferred under German and European Union law by virtue of its status as the provider of a public service.

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Deutsche Post could soon be fined more than EUR800 million

Posted by | Jan 25, 2002 | |

The European Union could soon slap Deutsche Post AG with a record penalty of more than EUR800 million for allegedly using revenues from its monopoly letter business to undermine express mail competitors like United Parcel Service (UPS), say lawyers and a former E.U. Competition Commissioner.

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