Post Office parent company Consignia today confirmed it will shed up to 250
jobs as part of a massive call centre closure plan. The organisation is to shut 59 of its 70 sites across the country, which
handle around a million customer inquiries a month.
The recession in Argentina has affected the post offices activities, which includes 80% of corporate postage and 20% of ‘occasional postage’. Last year this sector turned over Pesos $886mil through Correo Argentino and private post offices according to CNC. In relation to 1999, income dropped by 9.4%.
Read MoreThe Unites States Postal service is considering a 2004 mail reclassification program. “The financially ailing U.S. Postal Service is in the early stages of developing a mail reclassification proposal it hopes to implement by early summer 2004. With the USPS facing back-to-back deficits of between $1 and $3 billion over the next two years and planning to seek a rate hike of up to 20% for next summer, postal officials hope mail reclassification will lead to increased volumes and revenues.”
Read MoreA small private newspaper distributor has taken on China’s giant
post office after being fined for encroaching on business
traditionally carried out by the monopoly. Yangguang Baoye accused the Zhangjiakou post office branch in Hebei
province of unlawful conduct and asked a court this week to throw
out a 20,000 yuan (HK$18,800) penalty the post office issued. It
lost, with the court ruling in favour of the post office. But with
an appeal coming up, it could mark the beginning of another long
drawn-out fight against the state giant.
ROYAL MAIL has reached a breakthrough agreement with postal workers to
head off the prospect of damaging strikes across London. Members of the Communications Workers Union have voted overwhelmingly to
accept plans to close the antiquated Almeida Street mail centre in Islington.
Review of Royal Mail Industrial Relations
Read MoreK&N has completed a USD300m acquisition of USCO, a leading logistics supplier in the US. This gives K&N access to the US market in addition to access to the Asia/Pacific market which came from its alliance with SembCorp Logistics of Singapore. K&N clearly intends to be a global company and expand into the value-added logistics area.
Read MoreRetail giant WH Smith first announced its intention to sell its troubled distribution business in March this year. The news was not unexpected: a trading statement for the 20 weeks to 20 January 2001 reported a ‘disappointing’ performance in the news distribution unit, with growth static at 1%. The retailer’s distribution division also came under fire last year for plans to form an exclusive national arrangement with Tesco for distributing magazines.
WH Smith put an end to this strategy in January this year, and hinted about selling off the division a few months later. Future plans for WH Smith News, the UK’s largest wholesaler of newspapers and magazines, still hangs in the balance, although the company insists it is “business as usual”.
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