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Greek and Bulgarian Post & Telecommunications services to cooperate

Posted by | Nov 14, 2001 | |

Bulgaria’s Council of Ministers [on] Thursday [8 November] approved an agreement on cooperation in post offices and telecommunications with Greece, the Government’s Information and PR Directorate (IPRD) said. The agreement was signed in Sofia on 17 July 2001 and envisages exchange of information and specialists under various liberalization, consultancy and training programmes.
Bulgaria and Greece will cooperate in research and design of post-office and telecommunications equipment.

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Belgium: La Poste to cut 8,000 jobs at its mail division by 2005

Posted by | Nov 13, 2001 | |

Belgian postal services operator La Poste is to close two of its five sorting centres. According to the details of a new internal plan, the group’s Charleroi X and Liege X sorting offices will be replaced by a single installation to cover the Walloon region of Belgium. In Flanders, meanwhile, the group will transfer activities from its Ghent office to Anvers. The plan will be put to the group’s administrative board in December, and could lead to the loss of 198 jobs, according to figures put forward by La Poste.

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Deutsche Post releases encouraging 3Q results

Posted by | Nov 13, 2001 | |

Deutsche Post, Europe’s largest postal services group, met expectations with its third-quarter results yesterday and sounded an upbeat note for the rest of the year.
Its optimism came despite the impact of the September attacks in the US and subsequent anthrax scares that have disrupted postal services in Germany and elsewhere.
Deutsche Post, which was partly privatised a year ago, said it still expected full-year earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (ebita) to rise more than 5 per cent from last year’s level. It also expected 2001 net profit before minority interest to remain at last year’s level.

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Home Delivery: The Last Mile

Posted by | Nov 12, 2001 | |

Home shopping is a lifesaver for busy people, but only when receiving the goods is as convenient as the ordering process itself. But while breaking delivery promises has been much lamented in the past, now the fulfilment Holy Grail is not getting products on the road but delivering them effortlessly to people’s doors. It’s the last mile that counts.

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Pass the parcel is no game for rival portals

Posted by | Nov 12, 2001 | |

The UK same-day courier market, with its thousands of small local operators, is, surely, just what the Internet was designed for. And two main products have emerged – financed in different ways, but both designed on the principle that if you can bring together a parcel or vital document and an empty-running driver, your electronic sub-contractor network can maintain service levels while improving efficiency.
How Courier Exchange & Expeditus operate

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