SCOTLAND could lose up to 1,600 jobs under a massive cost-cutting scheme announced yesterday by Consignia, owner of the Post Office, Royal Mail and Parcelforce.
Consignia intends to cut Pounds 1 billion off costs and cut its total UK workforce by 20,000.
Unions described the move as the most ruthless attack on costs in the Royal Mail’s 350 year history and said they would vigorously oppose them.
Read MoreLogistics solutions provider Danzas has signed a joint venture agreement with logistics company Royal Cargo Corporation (RCC) in the Philippines. (10/4/2001)
RCC will be integrated into the Danzas Intercontinental Business Unit in the Philippines and form a new entity called Danzas AEI Inc. With the joint venture, Danzas AEI Inc. will provide logistics services for both incoming and outgoing cargo.
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. — Large business mailers can now track where their mailings are within the postal mailstream in near real time with the October 1st launch of the enhanced Confirm program.
“Confirm gives mailers a window into our operations and brings them one step closer to being able to know where their mail is at any time,” said Nicholas Barranca, vice president, Product Development.
” It also provides our operations managers with the same information to isolate problems and improve service.”
Read MorePostal officials must obey the letter of the law Takeshi Esaki Yomiuri Kenji Koso, a Liberal Democratic Party member of the House of Councillors, tendered his resignation on Sept. 25, only two months after his July election to the upper house, taking responsibility for a vote-soliciting scandal involving senior officials of regional postal service bureaus.
Koso, a former postal service bureaucrat, was forced by his party to resign from the Diet after 16 senior postal officials were arrested on suspicion of conducting illegal campaigns to support his bid for the upper house. Among the 16 officials involved were the incumbent head and other senior officials of the Kinki Regional Postal Services Bureau, as well as postmasters of post offices and special post offices in the Kinki region.
Read MoreConsider this. Your company has had a legal monopoly for 350 years. Your core products are regarded as public services, so the government retains rights to interfere in business decisions. Neither your managers nor your workforce hasever seen a competitor. Suddenly, the government abolishes the monopoly, handing the future of the industry to an untried regulator. The regulator starts licensing competitors, even before establishing a clear regulatory framework.
Meanwhile, you are left with a public sector operating culture, a strike-prone workforce and a legal duty to maintain expensive public services even as competitors start eating into your more profitable markets. How do you respond?
Read MorePalletways has improved its national network by opening a new depot in Edinburgh.
Read MoreTwelve years after it was privatised, Air New Zealand was on Thursday heading back into government hands under a rescue package that will cost taxpayers NZ$885m ($360m) and give the state an 83 per cent stake in the troubled national carrier.
Read MoreRoyal Mail has launched a resource called the Mail Media Centre, aimed at promoting the use of mail-based routes to market among the UK’s leading advertisers.
The centre is designed as a one-stop shop for research and advice about the role mail media can play in brand marketing strategies.
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