German victory in US express war
Deutsche Post won a major battle with DHL against package delivery rivals when the US government denied a petition to revoke its freight forwarding operations.
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French, Italian Posts Plan Mail, Express JV
The French and Italian post offices are eyeing the launch of a joint mail and express traffic later this between their respective hubs in Paris and Rome, an industry source told Reuters.
Read MoreMissing without trace – Phantom Mailings
AS ENTIRE mailings go missing, postai operators stand accused of widespread failure to deliver international direct mail.
In Berne to speak to the Universal Postal Union, leading list broker James Thornton hit out at those postal services known to be giving international mailers a raw deal. “Testing over the last twelve months has indicated that some authorities are just not doing their job adequately – particularly where Surface Air Lift is used:’ he said.”The bottom line is that you get an immediate lift in response by mailing first-class. There is something seriously wrong and we are going to have to do something. It is a very big problem if direct mail that mailers are paying for doesn’t get to its destination.
Read MoreArticle: Who will be handling your mail in 2003?
THERE WAS a time when dealing with the post in the UK was a simple affair.
There were few competitors, few options, limited customer service and you paid the asking rate because not many of us had the knowledge to do otherwise.
With the appointment of the new industry regulator, Postcomm, bringing with it new licensing regulation and impartial marketplace development, the mail delivery industry stands on the brink of change not seen since the introduction of Oftel in 1984. I am sure there are few people who would not agree that in the other utilities choice has improved. Nowadays you can buy your electricity from the gas board, your phone calls from the electricity board and postage through the Internet. Customer service has come on in leaps and bounds and in real terms prices have reduced. I use the term other because in reality the postal service is another utility which we use like a light switch. Nobody thinks twice about whether a light comes on at the press of a button. How many ever consider the intricacies of a postal service? The forthcoming deregulation of the UK postal market will change all this. People will wake up to the potential of choice and we can look forward to an era when nothing will stay quite the same.
Postal woes need action
The U.S. Postal Service is in trouble. The advertising and publishing industries that depend on it are publicly fed up, and rates are set to increase for the second time this year. With the future looking like more of the same, the clamor is building-and rightly so-for Congress to take action. If shouting alone were enough to get attention in Washington, the din last week easily could be heard up and down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Postal Service Board of Governors complained about the independent Postal Rate Commission, which it said made the coming July 1 rate hikes necessary by ignoring Postal Service revenue needs. The Magazine Publishers of America and Direct Marketing Association lambasted the Postal Service for not being able to control its costs.
Read MoreJapan Postal Services Agency planning to cut 14,000 jobs
The Postal Services Agency on Monday drafted a plan to cut about 14,000 jobs in the mail service in five years’ time, officials said. The figure represents more than 10 percent of 136,000 people currently on the Postal Services Agency’s mail services payroll across the nation. The job-cutting plan is part of the agency’s comprehensive streamlining project involving three areas: mail services, postal savings and insurance services.
Read MoreSAS considers buying smaller Baltic airlines
Scandinavian Airlines System has said it is keen to buy small airlines in the Baltic region, but has ruled out a full-blown merger with another European group.
Read MoreSafeway on (rail) track to green future
Safeway is planning to extend its use of rail for daily movements of goods
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