Sture Wallander had recently done some research on volumes of mail to Sweden and had found that the top 10 countries (At the top Finland, UK, Germany & Norway) send more mail to Sweden in a week than all the others put together do in a year. I.e. more than 98% of Swedens inbound mail comes from the top 10 countries.
Read MoreRegional development in eastern Europe – A presentation by Thomas E Leavey, Director General, UPU
Read MoreCustomer Perspectives – A presentation by Gerhard Moeller, Chairman of the PostEurop Customer Relations Task Force
Read MoreThe Postal Services in Europe: Comments on the economic and social paths to modernisation – A presentation by Duarte Ivo Cruz, Director International Relations, CTT-Correios de Portugal
Read MoreTimisoara Management Training Centre – A presentation by Mircea Hartopeanu, director European and International affairs, Romanian Post
Read MoreTasks of the Postal Operations Council until 2004 – A presentation by Carlos Silva, Inspector General of Posts and Telecommunications / Chairman of the Postal Operations Council
Read MoreCalls for gradually privatizing the mail service were dominant at a government-commissioned study panel meeting convened Wednesday to discuss steps to create a new public entity in fiscal 2003 to take over the state-run service, government officials said.
Many panel members supported opening the mail service to private companies in a step-by-step manner, as rapid privatization would undermine the current “universal service,” in which collection and delivery of mail is uniformly available anywhere in Japan, to the detriment of the planned public entity’s financial base, the officials said.
At present, the Postal Services Agency monopolizes the mail service. Planning to open the service to private businesses from fiscal 2003, the Ministry of Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications has asked the study panel to recommend steps to establish the new public entity that will take over three postal services — mail, savings and insurance — from the government.
The French post office (La Poste) has unveiled plans to expand its range of financial services. In an internal document intended for its staff, La Poste claims, for example, that it is considering credit facilities for its customers – an initiative which would involve the creation of a postal bank. The organisation deplores the fact that, at present, it can only offer its customers housing loans.
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