The U.S. Postal Service has petitioned the Postal Rate Commission for an “experimental no-fee trial period for its delivery confirmation service for Priority Mail. If approved, the requested experimental trial will run from December 1 through December 16, 2001.” See also the Postal Service’s press release.
Read MoreIreland’s “telecom regulator’s office has set a deadline for An Post [the Irish post office] in a bid to speed up next day delivery of mail. The Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation (ODTR), which also regulates An Post, has set an interim target for 2002 of a next day delivery of 92pc nationally for all mail and 94pc for all local post. Up to now An Post has not been meeting its own target of 90pc next day delivery for all mail. The ODTR has called on the An Post to submit a plan by April 2, 2001 that would include detailed costed proposals for a target of 97pc next day delivery for first calls letters from January 1, 2003. According to research by Irish Marketing Surveys, 73pc of Irish businesses believe that all business should have the choice of a first class service with next day delivery and a cheaper second class service with delivery within three days.
Read MoreEuropean sources have reported that “Agencia L, the Spanish company which handles business correspondence, has broken its exclusive contract with Correos y Telegrafos, the Spanish state-owned postal operator, as a result of ‘increasing unfair competition practices’, which, according to Correos, the company has implemented in recent months through an ‘illegal discounts policy’.
Read MoreSpeaking at a meeting with e-tailers
recently, Jim Doyle, head of international development for the PickPoint /
Collectpoint Internet fulfilment business, described the rapid progress made
in the UK over the past twelve months in both recruiting on-line retailers and
also chains of late-night opening stores as collection points for the service. Collectpoint now has a wide variety of on-line and mail order retailer
partners, allowing shoppers to collect their purchases from over 3,200
collection sites throughout the UK. All Collectpoints are open from early
morning to late at night seven days a week and some are open 24 hours per day.
When shopping with a participating retailer, shoppers simply select a
Collectpoint near to their home and pick up their parcel when convenient
Lloyd Fraser is to manage the distribution of all centrally stocked products for the DIY Focus Group.
Read MoreAccording to the Daily Telegraph (UK), “Consignia may be penalised by Postcomm as much as 10% of its turnover as the former Post Office failed to meet its delivery targets in the first quarter. The company reported that only 86.1% of first class mail met the next-day delivery guarantee for the period, a figure that Consignia needs to bring up to the regulator’s 92.1% threshold for the financial year. Reliability this September will be affected by the terrorist attacks in the US, which grounded the company’s postal fleet and led to a week-long delay of US deliveries. Disrupted rail services in the UK has also affected Consignia’s schedule.”
Read MoreState-owned postal services operator New Zealand Post on Thursday reported a flat after tax annual profit of NZ$21.0 million and flagged a decline in profits next year due to the cost of establishing a new bank.
Read MoreNot even the mail is safe from Argentina’s ruthless recession. Correo Argentino, a private firm running the national post office, filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday to dig its way out of massive debt with a cash-strapped government.
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