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Esker Launches Online Resource to Inspire Paperless Business Practices

Posted by | Jun 13, 2008 | |

GreenerDocs.com calculates organizations’ paper consumption and provides ways to reduce the paper trail with document automation
Esker announced that it launched GreenerDocs.com, an online web portal providing valuable statistics about paper consumption and tips for how to reduce that amount of paper used, and misused, for business communications. The site targets organizations seeking ways to adopt socially responsible, green-focused initiatives.
GreenerDocs.com features an interactive Green ROI Calculator, designed to help businesses determine exactly how much paper their employees are consuming through order and invoice processing. The user enters information about the number of sales orders and invoices processed daily, the length of each document, and their daily volume of paper business correspondences. With that information, the calculator measures the number of trees, gallons of water, watts of electricity and pounds of CO2 saved by implementing more environmentally friendly document processes. With that information in hand, users can look to GreenerDocs.com to get a clear understanding of how their paper waste negatively impacts the environment.
The site builds upon Esker’s Quit Paper campaign, a campaign aimed at challenging today’s enterprises to reduce the unnecessary use of paper. Esker’s mission is to demonstrate that by quitting the paper addiction, companies will not only help the environment, but also lower operational costs, experience higher efficiency within order-to-cash and procure-to-pay cycles, and develop stronger relationships with customers and suppliers.

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Royal Mail Chairman launches new charity partnership (UK)

Posted by | Jun 13, 2008 | |

Royal Mail Group Chairman Allan Leighton officially launched a new corporate partnership with the children and young people’s charity Barnardo’s at the Chairman’s Awards for Excellence. The annual awards celebrate the achievements of Royal Mail Group people who make a positive contribution to their local community or workplace.

Royal Mail Group’s new charity partner was chosen following a business-wide ballot of employees as the successful three-year partnership with Help the Hospices ended in March this year.

Royal Mail Group itself will provide grants to top up funds raised by its employees and Chairman Allan Leighton made the first donation to Barnardo’s Chief Executive Martin Narey at the Awards for Excellence. All of the money raised by Royal Mail Group will be distributed to the 394 Barnardo’s local community based projects which help 115,000 children and young people.

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FedEx Express appoints new Managing Director

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

FedEx Express has appointed Indranil Sen as its Managing Director, Marketing for Middle East, Indian Sub continent and Africa.

At FedEx Express, Indranil will be responsible for driving the performance and profitability for the region and most importantly delivering the FedEx Purple Promise of enhancing customer experience.

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Japan Post to outsource rural operations to Secom

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

Japan Post Holdings Co. plans to outsource some of its post office operations to Secom Co., the nation’s biggest security-services company, in an attempt to maintain its rural network, the Nikkei English News said, without citing anyone.

Of Secom’s 2,200 stations across Japan, three or four in remote regions will accept mail and provide financial services on behalf of Japan Post as early as the end of this year, the news service said.

Japan Post, which began its 10-year privatization process in October, is required to maintain its nationwide network of more than 24,000 post offices while increasing profit, Nikkei said. Japan Post Network Co., a postal subsidiary of the world’s largest financial institution by assets, will outsource to big firms for the first time, the news service said.

Japan Post Network currently uses limited-service branches such as individuals and local government offices to provide mail and postal savings, Nikkei reported. As of May 31, 454 such branches, mostly in rural areas, had been closed because of aging operators and loss of customers, Nikkei said.

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Kenya to chair 24th UPU Congress in Geneva and future Council of Administration

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

Kenya will chair the 24th Universal Postal Congress in Geneva from 23 July to 12 August 2008 as well as the UPU’s Council of Administration for 2009-2012.

The Kenyan Government has confirmed that Mr. Bishar A. Hussein, a former Postmaster General of Kenya Post and currently Kenya’s Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, will chair the Congress.

When the UPU Council of Administration decided last February to change the venue of the 24th Universal Postal Congress from Nairobi to Geneva, it also passed a resolution inviting Kenya to chair the Congress and the future Council of Administration. Kenya has now formally accepted these invitations.

Kenya will also chair the Council of Administration for 2009-2012, a UPU body made up of 41 member countries and responsible for overseeing the organization’s finances, international postal regulations and strategic direction of the Union between Congresses.

In other Congress news, France’s Edouard Dayan, current UPU Director General, and China’s Guozhong Huang, current Deputy Director General, will run for a second four-year mandate. No other candidates have stepped forward for the top UPU jobs.
So far, Great Britain, Greece, the Russian Federation and Switzerland have announced their candidacy for the chairmanship of the Postal Operations Council, a 40-member UPU body in charge of overseeing a range of postal operational issues such as security, quality of service, technical cooperation and development, postal financial services and more. Other countries could still announce their candidacy up until Congress.

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End of nation’s postal subsidies in sight (Vietnam)

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

Viet Nam’s postal sector may see tough times ahead, as the Government is considers cutting loss compensations in the sector to heal the ailing industry by 2013.
The Government will cut subsidies to the postal sector in 2013. How are the relevant authorities preparing for this?
The Government recently passed a public postal development plan, in which will gradually reduce subsidies to the postal sector, and completely end them in 2013. This was a very important decision, and it will have a strong impact on the sector.
We can see that the 2013 deadline is appropriate, despite the fact that it is unprecedented in Viet Nam. However, the separation is a litter bit late and needs the efforts of both the postal sector and the Government.
Can you tell me more about what the Government will do for the postal sector, before leaving it alone?
First of all, we’re giving the sector a 5-year transitional period, which will help it to prepare for the future.
Secondly, there will be two types of postal entities. One will belong to the Government and will be geared towards public service, while the other will be privately owned and will operate with market principles.
However, service prices at State-owned postal companies will be at least 10 times less than those of privately-owned companies.
Is it true that the ministry is also considering an adjustment to the prices of some postal services?
This is a very hot topic. The Ministry of Information and Communication has directed the postal sector to create a price adjustment roadmap for the near future.
In fact, the current price of postage stamps is very low, well below operating costs. An increase to service prices would help local postal operators improve postal networks and invest in new technologies.
However, as the economy is facing difficulties now with skyrocketing inflation rates, timing for any hikes would not be decided until next year.

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Stronger Transport Service Network for Itella Logistics in Norway

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

Itella Logistics has signed an agreement for taking over the business of Universal Spedisjon Bergen AS. After the approval of competition authorities in Norway and after the de-merger formalities are completed, Universal Spedisjon AS Bergen business will be transferred completely to Itella Logistics AS, which has been a 50 pct shareholder of the company for the last few years.
– This strategic acquisition will strengthen our position in Norway as one of the leading logistics operators in the market. Universal Spedisjon Bergen has developed successfully logistics services within national and international transport, freight-forwarding, and contract logistics, comments Kjell-Arne Eloranta, Managing Director of Itella Logistics AS.
Itella Logistics´ operations in Norway started in 2006 when it acquired Universal Spedisjon AS in Oslo, Kristiansand, Stavanger and Trondheim.

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ATA Airlines sues FedEx over military charter deal

Posted by | Jun 12, 2008 | |

ATA Airlines is suing FedEx Corp. over its decision to end a military charter business, a move the airline says forced it to seek bankruptcy protection and left it financially destroyed.

ATA accused FedEx of breaking a written agreement when it told the airline
in January it would no longer receive military passenger service for the
government fiscal year ending in 2009, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis.

FedEx notified ATA of the cancellation in a letter that came “out of the
blue,” said Kenneth Broughton, a Houston-based attorney representing ATA. He said ATA was counting on the military charters to be a “significant
profit center.”

The charter flights of military personnel and their families generated more
than USD 400 million in annual revenue and were expected to remain a “cornerstone” of the airline’s future business, the lawsuit states.

ATA filed for bankruptcy April 2 and abruptly ceased operations the next
Day. FedEx spokeswoman Sandra Munoz said her company had no contractual
obligation to ATA beyond the current fiscal year, which ends in September.

The military contracts commercial airlines for charter flights organized
through two teams of companies. ATA had flown military charter flights as a member of the FedEx team for more than 20 years. In late 2006, it spent more than USD 50 million to buy seven DC-10 planes from Northwest Airlines.

Broughton said the airline bought the planes and then spent additional money on hiring and training, because the military prefers wide-body aircraft. He said ATA did this after receiving a written commitment from FedEx that it would continue to receive military charter business through the fiscal year ending in 2009.

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