United Parcel Service is considering an alliance with Chilexpress or Lan Courier to operate nationwide in Chile, according to published reports. UPS has in the past worked with Lan Courier, a Chilean express provider, and is now working with Chilexpress, also a courier service.
Chile’s package delivery market has grown by about 10% in 2001.
The Swedish postal service Posten AB said that negotiations to sell off Postgirot Bank AB are at their final stage
Read MoreAbout 300 angry postal workers rallied outside the Sydney headquarters of Australia Post today demanding their jobs be protected. The postal worker’s union held the rally in protest against moves by Australia Post to contract out some permanent jobs and shift current employees into part-time work. But Australia Post has denied the union claims, saying it had no plan to implement widespread contracting out of jobs
Read MoreAs mail order and e-commerce have exploded in recent years, the Post Office is looking at new ways to cope with the demand for home deliveries. Later this year the Post Office, now called Consignia, will begin trials of a new system where secure metal containers, the size of washing machines, are placed outside selected homes in several hundred London locations with an SW postcode. Each device, known as a Bear Box (right), has a computer code that allows it to be opened. Once the goods are deposited the customer is alerted via email or text message
Read MoreThe German finance ministry will propose this week a key legislative change that would remove the remaining obstacle to the sale of a majority stake in Deutsche Post, the country’s post and logistics group.
Read MoreNegotiations are underway between the French State and La Poste to
renew its contract, which runs out this year. With 60,000 employees
from a total of 300,000, financial services ensure activities, and
sometimes the raison d’etre, for a third of the 17,000 post offices
The ACS has warned of a further drop in sub post office numbers unless the
Post Office Network makes the prospect of taking on a post office more
appealing to independent retailers. In a new report, the ACS Post Office Committee claims retailers’
relationships with the PON are “one sided, unduly restrictive and old
fashioned”.
Spar has opened the UK’s first combined main post office and convenience store
in London this week. Rather than sectioning off the post office behind glass windows, the open plan
design at Westminster Bridge Road enables customers to pay for groceries,
apply for a passport, collect benefit and buy travellers’ cheques at the same
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