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Western Union and Fundacion Teleton Mexamerica partner to benefit disabled children and families

Posted by | Dec 4, 2007 | |

Zero Transfer Fee Quick Collect(R) Money Transfer Service from Participating Agent Locations in the U.S., Over the Phone and Internet Donations to Benefit Fundraiser

Together with Fundacion Teleton Mexamerica, a leading nonprofit organization in Mexico working with disabled children and families, The Western Union Company), a global leader in money transfer services, today announced a partnership to provide zero transfer fee Quick Collect(R) money transfers within the U.S. – identified as “Teleton Mexico” – in support of this year’s 11th annual Teleton fundraiser.

As an official partner of Teleton, Western Union will provide consumers with zero transfer fee Quick Collect(R) services for money transfers sent from participating Agent locations in the U.S. to the “Teleton Mexico” US account – between December 1 and December 15, 2007. This year, Western Union also will enable consumers in the U.S. to make donations over the phone (1-800-CALL-CASH) and the Internet (www.WesternUnion.com/teleton).

According to Teleton, there are more than 10 million disabled persons in Mexico, of which 2.5 million are children – living in remote parts of the country with no access to medical resources to meet their needs. The annual fundraiser uses all proceeds to support children rehabilitation centers across Mexico.

“Western Union’s support will afford Teleton the unique opportunity to reach the U.S. Mexican population with the hope to help our children receive the necessary services they need for their rehabilitation and integration process,” said Fica Soriano, director promotional activities, Fundacion Teleton Mexamerica.

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Algeria Post facts

Posted by | Dec 4, 2007 | |

Algeria Poste is a publicly-owned commercial operation, with revenues
of DZD272,055,490 in 2006. In terms of its infrastructure, the company has:

– 3,293 post office branches

– 09 central sorting offices, including 4 of them dealing with
international business

– 06 parcel post processing centers
– 04 EMS express mail service centers
– 01 national postal check center
– 06 regional postal check centers
– 06 postal order centers
– 07 savings centers
– 9.5 million CCP accounts
– 3.7 million Cnep accounts
– Coverage: one post office branch for every 9,800 head of population
– 221 million financial operations carried out each year
– 16,000 billion Algeria Dinars handled each year.

1 USD = 66.7873 DZD

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South Africa: Home Affairs Steps Up Turn Around Strategy

Posted by | Dec 4, 2007 | |

All Department of Home Affairs offices now use track and trace equipment and 254 offices have received scanners and receipt slip printers to date as part of their Turn Around Strategy.

Addressing the Governance and Administration Cluster in Parliament Friday, the Minister of Public Service and Administration, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said 1 249 front line staff have been trained in customer service procedures and that further training will be provided to 427 additional staff in the frontline offices.

To enhance the effectiveness of the existing Client Service Centre, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will also implement a Contact Centre, which will deal with all enquiries and service delivery complaints. In terms of identity document distribution, the DHA has investigated various methods of postage namely, postage of application forms from front offices to head office, postage of enabling documents from the head office to front offices, and postage of uncollected enabling documents from front offices to serviceable postal addresses

The Department previously signed a service level agreement (SLA) with the South African Post Office (SAPO) for the distribution of uncollected enabling documents from front offices to serviceable addresses.

The SLA was to be revised during 2007 in order to include secure mail delivery options. This review process was however expanded to include all three dimensions of postage engaged by the Department. Direct postage of identity documents to postal addresses was however discontinued with effect from June 2007. As a result of these challenges, the Department has decided to appoint a single service provider to provide secure and fast postal services in order to improve turnaround times and ensure secure delivery of applications and enabling documents.

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EU commission plans to investigate German postal minimum wages

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

EU commissioner Nelie Kroes is planning to investigate the German government’s decision to introduce minimum wages for postal workers, Der Spiegel reported, without citing its sources.

The German government last week decided to extend minimum wages of 8-9.80 eur per hour paid by incumbent Deutsche Post World Net AG to the whole industry, which means its main competitors TNT NV’s TNT Post and Axel Springer AG’s PIN Group will lose their cost advantages.

The report said Kroes will investigate whether the minimum wages are an unjustified preferential treatment of Deutsche Post.

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UPS unveils strategic alliance in India

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

UPS Jetair Express has announced a strategic alliance with AFL “that will significantly expand accessibility to UPS services in India while providing export capabilities to AFL”.

The alliance will take effect from January 1, 2008, when all AFL WiZ Express Centres across India will promote US-based UPS’s international express delivery service to customers in that country.

Under the new set-up, UPS Jetair Express will continue to operate as an international express delivery service provider connecting India with the global marketplace, while AFL maintains its function as a domestic service provider connecting businesses across India.

The new alliance will also allow AFL to pick up international export shipments on behalf of UPS destined for the more than 200 countries and territories served by the latter. UPS access points for customers with international express delivery requirements will exponentially increase to more than 200 locations in India.

UPS will provide training to all AFL sales staff to ensure that global service standards are maintained.

Over the last 60 years, AFL claims to have pioneered and led three different segments of the logistics industry in India – air freight forwarding, international air express service and third party logistics. In 2001, it added a domestic air express service.

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Miele and Schenker start logistics partnership in Finland

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

Delivering all spare parts throughout the country ¡ñ Warehousing activities will move to Schenker¡¯s multimodal logistics center at the port of Turku
(Essen/Helsinki, 28 November 2007) Miele, the world¡¯s largest family-owned and operated appliance company, and Schenker in Finland, the leading provider of integrated logistics services in the country, have just signed a contract on a logistics partnership. Schenker will be Miele¡¯s new partner for logistics in Finland.

Effective 1st January 2008, the Miele spare parts activities will move to the Schenker premises in Helsinki. Schenker¡¯s own parcel service Schenker Express will then deliver all Miele spare parts throughout the country.

In April 2008, Miele¡¯s remaining warehousing activities, now still located in the city of Hanko, will move to Schenker¡¯s multimodal logistics center at the port of Turku. The new Schenker complex is unique to Finland, linking the four carriers ¨C truck, air, ship and rail ¨C and serving at the same time as a distribution center. Schenker will continue as the national distributor of Miele¡¯s products in Finland. Schenker also offers home delivery service for Miele products.

Miele¡¯s range of consumer appliances includes: vacuum cleaners; laundry systems; rotary irons; dishwashers; built-in convection, speed and steam ovens; cooktops; ventilation hoods; and coffee systems. In addition, Miele Professional offers commercial cleaning equipment such as laboratory glassware washers, industrial parts cleaning systems, dental disinfectors and commercial wet cleaning systems.

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Three Winners Announced at the Pall-Ex Gala Dinner

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

Three members have been rewarded for all their hard work by leading pallet network, Pall-Ex. Cartwright Bros (Haulage) Limited has been awarded the prestigious Pall-Ex ‘Depot of the Year’ title. Cartwright’s has been part of the Pall-Ex network since 2001. The company manages logistics for many leading organisations, including leading retailers and manufacturers. Depot Principal of Cartwright’s, John Cartwright, said: “It is always wonderful to receive an award, but when the accolade is voted for by our own colleagues, it feels twice as good.” John will now enjoy a weekend break in Paris, courtesy of Pall-Ex.

Pall-Ex network member Leach Distribution Ltd won the Pall-Ex ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Network’ title. Paul Shaw, Depot Principal for Rochdale based Leach Distribution, said: “Such recognition from our network peers at Pall-Ex is a fantastic achievement.”

Finally, Pall-Ex member Premier Palletise, won the new Pall-Ex ‘Most Improved Depot’ title.

The coveted awards were presented by Pall-Ex founder and Managing Director Hilary Devey, at the Pall-Ex Anniversary Dinner Dance on November 24th at the Celtic Manor Resort in South Wales.

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DHL Russia introduced an evening pick-up product

Posted by | Dec 3, 2007 | |

As of December 1, DHL has offered its customers a new ‘Evening pick-up’ product. It is now possible to hand in shipments to DHL courier even when the working time is over.

DHL Evening pick-up product is available in Moscow and St. Petersburg for downtown areas of the two cities. DHL plans to expand the service coverage in the near future to make it available to its customers across the rest of Russia.

‘We are aware just how tough the schedule of our customers can be’, says Eugenia Panfilova, Acting Commercial Manager DHL Russia. ‘For objective reasons, arranging a shipment may take much more time than expected. We strive to meet our customers’ expectations and give them extra time to prepare their shipment for the pick-up. We realize that success of a business depends greatly on the time it takes to deliver a shipment and we will do our best to ensure that our customers face no inconveniences in their day-to-day operations’, she added.

No additional paperwork is needed to order the new DHL product. The courier pick-up request is done in a standard way. To file the request for the current day, one needs to call DHL before 19:00. The shipments are picked up by the courier until 22:00.

Additionally DHL customers may arrange for various optional services such as Insurance, Proactive Tracking and Proof of Delivery. DHL customers may also benefit from a wide range of packaging materials offered by DHL as well as Remote Area Service.

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