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Consignia posts web portal plans A single point of access for 20 million online customers.

Posted by | Aug 23, 2001 | |

Consignia is building a new customer portal around web services software from ebusiness platform company ATG.The company, formerly the Post Office, rejectedalternative packages from IBM, BEA and Broadvision.The portal, yet to be named, will launch in the autumn and is designed to give Consignia’s potential 20 million online customers a single point of access to services available from Royal Mail, Parcelforce Worldwide and the Post Office.

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Post Denmark: Parcel Market Stabilizes

Posted by | Aug 23, 2001 | |

The Danish post office’s volume of international parcels fell 0.6 percent in the first half to 15.7 million, from 15.8 million a year earlier, the company said in its half-year report. ‘This indicates that the situation in the parcel market has stabilised again after a period of sustained sharp decreases,’ Post Denmark said.

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Public corp. not answer to postal savings woes

Posted by | Aug 22, 2001 | |

Riding on the Liberal Democratic Party’s strong showing in the July
House of Councillors election, the administration of Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi is heading toward fully fleshing out its reforms. With work under way on reforming public corporations with the
ultimate goal of abolishing or privatizing them, debate on reforming
the three postal services has heated up. The three services–mail delivery, savings and life insurance–will
be integrated into the planned “postal public corporation” in 2003.

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Taxes cut into increased Deutsche Post revenues .Deutsche Post was unable to post increased profits

Posted by | Aug 22, 2001 | |

As expected, the German logistics provider increased turnover by 7%
to E16.8bn (Dollars 14.66bn). Earnings before interest and taxes
went up 5.5% to E1.4bn. However, net profits, fell slightly from E1.1bn to E1.05bn. ‘The
primary reason for this was the year-on-year increase in the tax
ratio, due to the consumption of tax loss carry-forwards,’ said
chief executive Klaus Zumwinkel.

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Correos launches plan to improve

Posted by | Aug 22, 2001 | |

Aug 21, 2001, (Expansion /FT Information via COMTEX) — Correos, the Spanish post office, will launch a plan to improve customer service, reduce waiting times and adapt its services to existing demand. The plan is aimed at enabling the company to compete with new private operators when the sector is liberalised in 2003. Last June, Viapolis became the first private operator in Spain’s state-controlled sector.

Correos post offices will have separate counters for normal mail, urgent mail, large packages, banking services, collecting mail and packages, and giro cashing. Machines will be installed which give out numbered tickets to customers, who will go to a window when their number is called out. Correos will launch the new system in August at its 30 busiest post offices. A total of Pta80m euros will be invested in the new equipment. Correos installed the system on a trial basis in five post offices at the end of 2000.

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