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Correos and Western Union launch money transfers campaign

Posted by | Aug 22, 2007 | |

Correos have launched a campaign to facilitate money transfers for immigrants in Spain. This is the second campaign of this category during the summer of 2007. The offices involved in this campaign are located in zones with high a concentration of immigrants.

The Spanish government estimates there are around 4 million immigrants currently living in Spain, mainly coming from South America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

From 20th August till 30th September 2007, Correos will give a 1 GB MP3 for every 3 money transfer operations.

In 1999, Correos signed an agreement with Western Union to include money transfers in its 2,124 office networks.

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FedEx Corp. Board declares quarterly dividend

Posted by | Aug 22, 2007 | |

The Board of Directors of FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) today declared a quarterly cash dividend of USD 0.10 per share on FedEx Corporation common stock. The dividend is payable October 1, 2007 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 10, 2007.

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eBay.ie & An Post introduce new e-Parcel Card

Posted by | Aug 22, 2007 | |

eBay.ie, the dedicated Irish eBay website, and An Post have joined forces to introduce a new pilot scheme to reward eBay sellers resident in Ireland.

The e-Parcel Card, which launches last 21 August 2007 and will be reviewed in April 2008, offers eligible eBay users favorable prices on national and international parcels weighing up to 5kg, sent using An Post. eBay users can make a saving of up to 45 pct on national parcels and 75 pct on international postage.

The new service is easy to use, free to join and open to all eBay users in Ireland who have a minimum feedback score of 90, with at least 98 pct positive.

Eligible eBay users can effortlessly sign up for the scheme by visiting www.e-Parcel.ie. Once registered, they will receive an e-Parcel Card, which they can produce at one of 1000 local automated post offices nationwide whenever they are sending an eBay parcel to allow them to benefit from the preferential pricing.

eBay.ie, which earlier in the year announced that it has over 500,000 CRUs (confirmed registered users) in Ireland, is partnering with An Post to reward its loyal and growing Irish user base.

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AT&T Government Solutions awarded USD 22 Million by The United States Postal Service

Posted by | Aug 22, 2007 | |

AT&T Inc. has announced that AT&T Government Solutions has been awarded up to USD 22 million under the Postal Advanced Telecommunications Network (PATN) contract. AT&T will upgrade 1,800 United States Postal Service (USPS) facilities with its Enhanced Virtual Private Network (EVPN) service.

The project will increase the total number of AT&T-managed EVPN sites to more than 5,500. The EVPN service provides seamless, integrated high speed connectivity to support next-generation applications across the USPS nationwide network. The period of performance is up to three years.

AT&T will provide Managed Services, which include engineering and design, on-site installation and proactive network management and reporting. AT&T’s global Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)-enabled network will serve as the platform for this VPN solution.

The USPS is one of many federal agencies facing increased traffic demands from the widespread deployment of next-generation application deployments across their organizations. EVPN solutions are a robust, scalable and cost-effective way to address federal agencies’ growing bandwidth demands while increasing overall network performance.

In 2006, AT&T upgraded more than 3,000 fully managed EVPN sites as part of a widespread USPS-Enterprise Site Upgrade initiative.

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Pan-GCC postal service planned

Posted by | Aug 21, 2007 | |

Another meeting to discuss the new postal service is scheduled to take place in November. A pan-GCC mail transportation company is likely to be set up to carry postal mail and courier parcels across the region, the UAE’s postal services company said.

The company, which was first proposed at a meeting of GCC postal officials last May, would facilitate package delivery among the different postal systems of the six GCC member states.

“GCC postal managements drew closer to establishing a pan-GCC mail transportation company following a second meeting of a special committee of representatives from GCC postal administrations,” a statement by Emirates Post said on Monday, quoted Gulf News.
The committee agreed on the framework and the financial and operational model for the proposed company at a workshop hosted by Emirates Post in Dubai on Monday, the statement added.

“The meeting helped tie loose ends and move ahead for implementing the ambitious new project that will streamline and speed up mail transportation within the region, as per the decision of GCC postal administrations,” said Abdullah Al Daboos, director-general of Emirates Post.

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German postal workers may win minimum wage

Posted by | Aug 21, 2007 | |

German postal workers may be subject to a minimum wage from early next year after the ruling coalition parties reached a late-night deal to extend basic pay levels, Labor Minister Franz Muentefering said.
Muentefering said he expects postal services employers and the Ver.di labor union to agree this year on a minimum wage, a precondition for the government to make the pay level binding for postal workers across the country as a whole.
A statutory minimum wage may be good news for Deutsche Post AG, Europe’s biggest postal service, as it prepares for the end of its letter-delivery monopoly, its most profitable business, on Jan. 1. The company has forecast domestic competition will trim earnings at its mail division by as much as 20 percent by 2009. Minimum wage regulations would also apply to competitors such as Pin AG.
“The postal monopoly will be phased out, that can’t be changed, but we’ll introduce a minimum wage and that’s something we can get done this autumn,” Muentefering said.

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Uganda: Posta Fights to Keep Afloat in a High-Tech Sector

Posted by | Aug 21, 2007 | |

Posta Uganda, the country’s traditional postal service provider, is sliding out of business after taking damaging knocks from new sophisticated players amid severe under funding from the government.

“Posta needs re-capitalization to become profitable,” the former Posta Uganda Board Chairperson Aisha Lubega said last week.

Her statement underlined the deep seated precarious situation under which the company is operating. Almost ten years after its formation, the company has failed to break even despite initial government promises to subsidies it with a Shs1 billion annually. It only posted profits in 2004/05 of Shs 400 million according to company reports shown to Business Power.

Mr Kitongo said Posta Uganda has received only Shs150 million from the ministry of Works since 2002. Today, the company fails to deliver on some of its most core business for lack of financing.

It delivers mail at no profit, it is burdened by outstanding statutory obligations and is deeply indebted to the tune of Shs 4.3 billion as assessed tax liability and more than Shs 2.3 billion for contributions to the National Social Security Fund and staff contributory schemes, according to the company’s ministerial policy statement for 2007/08 presented in June.

1 British Pound (GBP) = 3,342.38 Uganda Shilling (UGX)

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TNT pilots two zero emission trucks in Rotterdam – First electric delivery vehicles in mainland Europe

Posted by | Aug 21, 2007 | |

Ivo Opstelten (Mayor of Rotterdam and Chairman of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative) and Peter Bakker (CEO of TNT) presented the two Smith electrical trucks which will be piloted in the Rotterdam area as part of the Rotterdam Climate Initiative.

The vehicles, a 3.5-tonne Smith Edison EV and a 9-tonne Smith Newton EV, will operate emission free in congested areas. The pilot is a significant step to contribute to the objective to reduce CO2 emissions by half in Rotterdam by 2025 compared to 1990.

The Edison will be operational around the center of Rotterdam and will make an average of approximately 40 stops for pick up and delivery of documents and small parcels. The Newton will operate in and around the center of Rotterdam and make 15 to 20 stops when in operation. It is in these stop-start conditions where the electric trucks have a great advantage over conventional combustion engines which are at their most inefficient and most polluting.

The green electricity for running these vehicles is certified to be produced by hydropower. This means that operating the vehicles is entirely CO2 neutral.

Electric Vehicles work out the more cost effective option than diesel vans or trucks, when taken over the average commercial vehicle’s 5-year life span. This is due to low fuel costs as electricity costs a fraction of diesel. Further the maintenance costs are lower for an electric vehicle than for a conventional combustion vehicle. The electric vehicle only has four moving parts compared to over a thousand in a diesel drive train.

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