According to Martin Vial, chairman of French state postal services company La Poste, the signing of an express parcel delivery agreement with Spanish counterpart Correos could be followed by others in areas such as e-mail and hybrid mail
Read MoreGrowing use of the Internet and the falling cost of
telephone calls and faxes were behind a drop in international mail
handled by post offices throughout the UAE last year. Although the volume of mail distributed within the UAE shot up by 33
per cent, over three million fewer letters were sent to people
living in the UAE from overseas.
THE Post Office is a monopoly. It is strange that recent conditioning means
that I almost feel apologetic about this disgraceful state of affairs. I feel as if I should add: “I’m sorry about this. Naturally, I will do everything I can to end it. I know that monopolies are bad.” But the truth is that I don’t feel that way at all. I don’t even feel that there should be a debate about it. A postal monopoly is not good, bad or indifferent, it is a fact – like the fact
that there is only one Monopolies Commission. No other organisation could begin to compete with Royal Mail in any serious way. The fact that it has remained unchallenged as the nation’s mail carrier for 350 years is not because no-one else has been interested in the business or that noone has noticed that there is a postal service. No-one has tried to enter the market because there is no room for two parallel enterprises moving mail across the country.
The Japanese postal ministry has drawn up a blueprint
which will transfer many powers held by parliament to a public corporation
which will take over postal operations in 2003, a news report said Tuesday.
These powers include closing, merging and opening post offices and buying
and selling property. These currently require the approval of the Diet
(parliament), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper said.
The Post Office in Gloucester is joining forces with a well-known stationery supplier this month to offer a wider range of services to customers
Read MoreDirect mail in the UK continues to rise despite recent signs of a general advertising slowdown. This is according to new research recently released from the Direct Mail Information Service (DMIS).
The DMIS study indicates that direct mail volumes rose to around 1.25 billion items during the April-June quarter of 2001, representing a 4.5% increase on the same period in 2000. At the same time, expenditure increased by 7.5% to £480 million during this period
Communications Minister Reuven Rivlin has sought out a new challenge: postal
services. This week Rivlin announced that he would hold a public debate on the pros and cons of opening the domestic postal service market to competition, a move called for by a committee headed by David Brodet in August 1999
ROYAL Mail is to open a £20m distribution centre in Warrington to handle the region’s business post.
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