Posten continues its diet
Posten, the Norwegian postal services, continues to slim down and plans to cut its workforce in 2002.
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Brunei: Bleak future for postal services
The Brunei Postal Services Department is facing a bleak future due to stiff competition from the increasing use of email and short messaging service. The use of postal services is expected to drop in the years to come as fewer people send mail the conventional way.
Read MoreKuehne & Nagel purchase Italian Logistics firm
November 2001 – Kuehne & Nagel have bought the Milan based company Logistics Srl., a company specialized in the warehousing and distribution business. (11/26/2001)
Read More'SECOND POST? IT NEVER EXISTED'
THE new boss of the Royal Mail has denied she is scrapping the second post – because, she says, it never existed in the first place. Although three million letters drop through letterboxes each day after 2pm, former Avon lady Gillian Wilmot – in a public relations exercise worthy of a New Labour spin doctor – insisted that the second delivery was ‘a myth’. She said: ‘What we have is a sweeper service that picks up mail we should have delivered first time round.
Read MorePakistan Post Office earns Rs 400 million profit
The Director General Pakistan Post Office Maj Gen Agha Masood Hassan has said the department earned Rs 400 million profit this year. Revolutionary steps are being taken for further improvement of postal system in the country.
Read MoreHeavy strike action in southern Belgium as La Poste holds tense board meeting
Belgian postal services operator La Poste, which has been heavily criticised for its performance by the government in recent weeks, held a meeting of its administrative board on Friday. Following the meeting, the group issued a communique relating to its plan of action for resolving its problems. The board also confirmed its wish to guarantee La Poste’s quality of service and to pursue its modernisation.
Read MorePrivate airlines to carry mail
Disillusioned with the fixed quota of mail delivery given by Indian airlines, the West Bengal postal circle will depend more and more upon private airlines for its mail delivery. said post master general (mail management) S.K. Das while speaking to TNN.
The decision relates mainly to the express segment like express parcel, business mail and speedpost that are heavier and carry more weight.
Sweden Post sees drop in nine-month result
Sweden’s state-owned postal services company Posten reported an operating profit of SEK396m for the first nine months of the year, as compared to SEK775m in the same period last year.
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