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Polish Post: The postal market assessment for the year 2006

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

The President of UKE published a short version of an assessment study on the postal market functioning in 2006 submitted to the Minister of Transport.

The assessment study on the postal market functioning is based on information provided in the reports of the Poczta Polska activities – the operator which provides universal postal services, and also on the reports of operators which do not provide universal postal services.

In addition, the information sources include the results of inspections of postal activities carried out under the act, an authorization or a registration as well as the results of inspections aiming at the detection of postal activities carried out without a required authorization or registration.

The postal market, in its evolution, is approaching the crucial moment of its full opening to competition. Therefore it requires regulatory activities that will ensure its sustainable and harmonious development.

This assessment study is an element of regulatory activities undertaken in order to monitor the developments in the postal market.

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Favorable economic trend boosts Itella’s result

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

Interim report for January–June 2007

• Q2 net sales grew by 9 per cent, coming to EUR 408.2 million (376.0). Six-month net sales grew by 10 per cent, coming to EUR 839.7 million (760.9).

• All business groups reported improvements in net sales, Itella Logistics in particular. Organic growth was 5 per cent for Q2 and 6 per cent for the six-month-period. In both periods, international operations represented 25 per cent of consolidated net sales.

• Q2 consolidated operating profit improved by 37 per cent, to EUR 19.7 million (14.4), accounting for 4.8 per cent (3.8 per cent) of consolidated net sales. Six-month consolidated operating profit grew by 26 per cent, to EUR 65.6 million (52.0), accounting for 7.8 per cent (6.8 per cent) of consolidated net sales. Itella Mail Communication and Itella Information reported improved operating profit.

• Itella Mail Communication launched a major project to develop mail sorting and delivery. The project involves investments of EUR 150 million over the next few years in equipment, IT systems and premises in Finland.

• New logistics centres started operating in Moscow and Kaunas, Lithuania. A contract was signed in May on the construction of a logistics centre in St. Petersburg, due to begin operating in early 2008.

• Company acquisitions by Itella Logistics continued with the purchase in Finland of SHW Logistiikka Oy, a furniture business service operator and, in Sweden, that of PS Logistics AB in July.

• A change of company name took effect in early June, as Finland Post was renamed Itella Corporation. Consumer service provision in Finland continues under the marketing name, ‘Posti’.

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Regulator to let Royal Mail raise price of 2nd class stamps by 17 pct

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

Royal Mail has been given the go-ahead to increase the price of a second-class stamp to 29p by 2010 but has been told by the postal regulator it must get its act together in order to remain competitive.

Postcomm said that the ball was now firmly in Royal Mail’s court “to address urgently its very high cost base”.

The regulator said it is giving all the help it can to enable Royal Mail to “tackle its deteriorating financial situation” and said that “reining back on competition” was not the answer.

Royal Mail asked Postcomm in March to review prices as it struggles in the face of competition from TNT and UK Mail in an age when email has broadly replaced the letter for personal correspondence. Postcomm had previously said second-class stamps could rise from 24p to 26p.

TNT and UK Mail had also requested Postcomm to look at “access mail”. This is when Royal Mail delivers letters “the final mile” for operators who have already collected and sorted the letters and carried them across the country. TNT and UK Mail believe the prices they pay are too expensive while Royal Mail believes it is too generous.

Postcomm rejected requests to change the status quo and said prices are overall “set at a fair level”.

Royal Mail and the Communication Workers Union have committed to reach an agreement by 4 September.

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TNT Express Germany expands its Customer Contact Center

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

The CCC inauguration TNT Express Germany has relocated its Customer Contact Center from Dansdorf to Bad Godesberg in Bonn due to a continuously growing workforce. The centre handles about 4,000 customer calls a day from across Germany.

The new Customer Contact Center (CCC) comprises 2,500 sqm which is 800 sqm more than the old location. The call centre currently has 140 employees and this number is expected to increase in 2008.

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ABX AIR, INC. Reports second quarter financial results

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

ABX Air, Inc. reported solid financial results compared with the second quarter of 2006, as pre-tax earnings from its rapidly growing, higher-margin air charter business more than offset reductions in pre-tax earnings from its commercial agreements with DHL.
For the second quarter, ABX Air’s results included:
• USD 4.5 million or USD 0.08 per diluted share, in net earnings, which included USD 2.8 million in deferred (non-cash) income tax expense. That compares with USD 6.5 million, or USD 0.11 per diluted share, in net income for the same period last year, when no income tax expense was recorded. In 2006, income tax expense was offset by reductions in the tax valuation allowance.
• A 13 pct increase in pre-tax earnings to USD 7.3 million from USD 6.5 million, as pre-tax earnings more than doubled from ABX Air’s operations outside its commercial agreements with DHL.
• Revenues of USD 281.3 million, down 7.3 pct from a year ago, as revenues from operations related to the DHL agreements declined 12.2 pct. Prior-year second quarter revenues included a USD 17.5 million reimbursement from DHL for line-haul management services, which did not recur in 2007. Second quarter revenues from business unrelated to DHL reached USD 22.4 million, an increase of 156.8 pct.

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La Poste organises a public consultation for presenting its direct marketing project

Posted by | Aug 10, 2007 | |

La Poste launched a public consultation for offering new direct marketing products.

This public consultation is organized with ARCEP (French postal regulator).

The objective of this consultation is to modernize and offer a new range of products linked to the Quality Courrier program which will be launched during the first quarter in 2008.

This public consultation is open from 20 August 2007 to 14th September 2007.

These new offers will be accompanied by an evolution of commercial conventions which govern the relations of the Post office with its large customers.
New rules will be added to the mails of more than 50 grams (The current conventions regulates the direct marketing and courier management of less than 50 grams).

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U.S. Postal Service says Chicago mail delivery improving

Posted by | Aug 9, 2007 | |

U.S. Postal Service officials say Chicago’s mail-delivery record is getting better, but still leaves a lot to be desired.

According to the agency’s most recent audit, mail delivery in city ZIP codes remains the nation’s worst.

The audit found that first-class mail sent between Chicago ZIP codes made it to the correct address the next day 93 pct of the time. That’s up from 90 pct in the first three months of the year.

The audit was for mail delivered between April and June.

Chicago postmaster Gloria Tyson says the district instituted reforms after a previous audit found the city’s in-town delivery ranked worst in the nation. She says the agency hired 240 more carriers, overhauled equipment and corrected nearly 143 thousand addresses.

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