United Parcel Service warned on Thursday that its third-quarter earnings would miss Wall Street estimates as parcel shipments continue to decline in the wake of the US economic downturn. The world’s largest delivery company also reported its second-quarter earnings dropped, the company’s second consecutive quarter of falling earnings.
Read MoreArcot Systems, Inc., the leading provider of solutions for securing e-business in Internet-scale, transactional and wireless environments, today announced that it has signed a deal with Post.Trust, the e-security division of Ireland’s national postal service An Post, to distribute Arcot digital identities. These identities are validated through face-to-face verification as part of the Post.Trust certification process.
In the future this technology could see digital identities (ArcotID(tm)) provided to the entire population of 4 million
Read MoreBelgian Post Group reprend les firmes françaises Speos, DPCI et Symbiose Gestion et fonde BPG France.
Read MoreWhere other major post offices such as TPG, Deutsche Post or La Poste have decided to invest in the express industry, the Belgian Post office has made three acquisitions in France: Speos, DPCI and Symbiose Gestion to create Belgian Post France. With its acquitions, Belgian Post France will be a market leader in the upstream activities of the value chain (printing, enveloping, storage, etc.)
Read MoreFaced with the prospects of a liberalised postal market in 2003, complaints from employees and unions over lack of staff and poor working conditions, Belgian post office La Poste is to implement deep reforms of its distribution system and network of 1,364 offices
Read MoreBelgian Post Group takes over the French firms Speos, DPCI and Symbiosis Management to create BPG France. These are document management companies, and give BPG a significant foothold in the value-added mail supply chain.
Read MoreFrench union CGT-PTT, representing postal workers, called on employees and users of French post office La Poste to ‘oppose all forms of public service sabotage’, denouncing the deterioration of the public service and the increased insecurity’ felt in the company.
Read MoreThe Belgian post office is negotiating compensation and the
buyout of Axa’s stake in a joint venture to sell insurance products via the
postal network, said a post spokesman.
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