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DHL aims to impart beach safety knowledge to children with “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience”

Posted by | Jun 9, 2008 | |

DHL has held its “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience” on 8 June 2008, almost one month before the beach open this summer.

The event, which aimed to teach children about water and beach safety, was held at Shirahama Ohama Beach in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture.

The “DHL Kids’ Lifesaving Experience” reflects one of DHL Japan’s core themes in its Corporate Sustainability initiatives, which is “Supporting Future Generations”.

The event this year marks the fifth time it has been organized, with the inaugural event taking place in 2004.

This year’s event was held in conjunction with the “21st All-Japan Lifesaving Multi-Category Championship”, held on 7 and 8 June at the same beach.

The children were able to gain an understanding of lifesaving activities with a talk on “Safety In The Water” by local lifesavers, with the objective of educating the children on safety at the beach.

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Scheme to introduce postcodes could cost up to euro 50m

Posted by | Jun 9, 2008 | |

The introduction of postcodes across the country will initially cost euro 15m, with the overall cost likely to be more than three times that.

The National Postcode Project Board (NPPB) has advised the government that euro 15m is the “upfront cost” of establishing, implementing and promoting the postcode.

An Post estimates that the overall cost of the scheme could be as high as euro 50m.

But Communications Minister Eamon Ryan has now decided to recruit more consultants to establish a “more complete estimate of the costs and benefits” of postcodes to the public sector.

The idea was first mooted by Mr Ryan’s predecessor Noel Dempsey, now Transport Minister, who originally set a deadline of 2008 for postcodes to be brought in.

On taking office last summer, the Green Party Minister pledged to press ahead with the introduction of a “clear and simple system” of postcodes as soon as possible.

Given the continued delays, however, it appears unlikely postcodes will be introduced before 2009.

Last night, Labour’s Liz McManus said she was not yet convinced of the necessity for postcodes and whether they should be prioritised.

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A smaller carbon footprint? (U.S)

Posted by | Jun 9, 2008 | |

Agencies have been ordered to cut their energy consumption, buy green office equipment, and gas up their government vehicles on ethanol-blended fuels.

But these mandates have only hinted at the ultimate goal: cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s about to change.

The Environmental Protection Agency next year will order at least some agencies to start measuring and reducing their carbon footprint.

The U.S. Postal Service isn’t a member of the EPA program, but it’s also been taking steps to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions as part of a larger effort to make its postal routes more efficient. With help from IBM Global Business Services, the Postal Service in 2006 created a program to target inefficient highway routes driven by tractor trailers. In many cases, these trucks were operating at 60 percent capacity.

In two years, the Postal Service has saved 1.2 million gallons of gasoline, primarily diesel, and reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 28 million pounds. It’s also cut emissions of carbon monoxide by 60,000 pounds and nitrogen oxide by 400,000 pounds.
E.J. Matto, an associate partner at IBM, said the program targets just a small number of trips but illustrates how much savings could be achieved if the agency were to target additional routes. “The next step is for the Postal Service to expand this to a larger level,” he said.

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China Post Group gets go-ahead to set up life insurance company

Posted by | Jun 8, 2008 | |

China Post Group, the business entity in charge of mail, delivery services and postal saving banks, has been approved by the country’s insurance regulator to set up a life insurance company.

Feng Xinsheng, executive deputy general manager of the group, said here on Saturday the company to-be, named as China Post Life Insurance Company Limited, will be launched within a year.

The insurance company would be registered in Beijing with a register capital of 500 million yuan (72.46 million U.S. dollars),Feng said.

He said the new company would mainly target farmers, low-income urban residents and migrant workers in cities.

Experiences of the group as agents of insurance sales would surely help in building such an insurance company, he added.

China Post Group was established in December 2006 to separate the regulatory functions of the former State Post Bureau (SPB) from its business activities.

SPB was traditionally both the supervisor and a player in the market.

The CPG, after the separation, owns the China Postal Air Freight Corporation and the China Postal Savings Bank and controls EMS services merged with the China Postal Logistics Corporation.

Feng said deposits at the China Postal Savings Bank, inaugurated in March 2007, had reached 1.8 trillion yuan by the end of May. The bank is more recognized as a community bank or rural bank with extensive outlets across the nation, especially in the countryside.

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